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Ours
An eclectic collection of International poetry and prose created from the winners of our Homeland/Motherland Charity Poetry Competition 2013. Including contributions from;
Maureen Duffy, Jana Russ, Robert Jaggs-Fowler, Pierre Le Gué, Walt Pilcher, Poorvaja Rajagopalan, Jo Reah, Janet Dean, Nicola Beeston, Farzana Marie, Robert J Miles, Frances Andrews and Brian Burchill.
Due to only being allowed to list 10 people as authors of the work, some of these names do not appear in the listing.
10% of all proceeds from sales of this collection will be donated to the WWO, the WorldWide Orphans Foundation (wwo.org).
Maureen Duffy, Jana Russ, Robert Jaggs-Fowler, Pierre Le Gué, Walt Pilcher, Poorvaja Rajagopalan, Jo Reah, Janet Dean, Nicola Beeston, Farzana Marie, Robert J Miles, Frances Andrews and Brian Burchill.
Due to only being allowed to list 10 people as authors of the work, some of these names do not appear in the listing.
10% of all proceeds from sales of this collection will be donated to the WWO, the WorldWide Orphans Foundation (wwo.org).
80 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 17, 2013
About the author
Maureen Duffy
63 books17 followersMaureen Patricia Duffy was a British novelist, poet, playwright, nonfiction author and activist.
Duffy's work often used Freudian ideas and Greek mythology as frameworks. Her writing was distinctive for its use of contrasting voices, or streams of consciousness, often including the perspectives of outsiders. Her novels have been linked to a European tradition of literature which explores reality through the use of language and questioning, rather than through traditional linear narrative. James Joyce in particular, and Modernism in general, are significant influences on her fiction, as is Joyce Cary.
Duffy, with author and activist Brigid Brophy, Michael Levey and two others founded the Writers' Action Group in 1972, which gained more than 700 author members. Their campaign for Public Lending Right (annual payments to authors based on public-library loans of their books) succeeded legally in 1979 after support for it at the 1978 TUC conference. She joined a delegation to meet Prime Minister James Callaghan in 1977. She remained an authority on copyright, intellectual property law and secondary author rights.
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Duffy's work often used Freudian ideas and Greek mythology as frameworks. Her writing was distinctive for its use of contrasting voices, or streams of consciousness, often including the perspectives of outsiders. Her novels have been linked to a European tradition of literature which explores reality through the use of language and questioning, rather than through traditional linear narrative. James Joyce in particular, and Modernism in general, are significant influences on her fiction, as is Joyce Cary.
Duffy, with author and activist Brigid Brophy, Michael Levey and two others founded the Writers' Action Group in 1972, which gained more than 700 author members. Their campaign for Public Lending Right (annual payments to authors based on public-library loans of their books) succeeded legally in 1979 after support for it at the 1978 TUC conference. She joined a delegation to meet Prime Minister James Callaghan in 1977. She remained an authority on copyright, intellectual property law and secondary author rights.
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November 18, 2017
I love Maureen Duffy's poetry - it's down to earth, solid, and is about real people and real things. There is only one of her poems in Ours because this is mainly a book of the winners and shortlisted entries to a competition that she judged. The fact that she was the judge ensures the quality of the end product, and there are a handful of other poets who were invited to contribute to the final collection. The book contains two other names that I know, Robert Jaggs-Fowler and Sue Knight - neither of whom are a well known as poets as they should be but maybe that will change with time.
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