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Jan Dean

Jan Dean, a former visual arts teacher, is published in Shuffle (Spineless Wonders) as 2019 Hunter category winner of the Joanne burns Award. The forthcoming collection is Intermittent Angels (Girls on KeyPress). Current poems appear in Verity La and Not Very Quiet. Poetry credits include three Newcastle Poetry Prize anthologies.
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Ashes Of Roses

Not a hop, step and jump, but a stumblefrom the gravel road, when a stubbed toeleads the way to a giant leap since the house was on the low side of the streetapproached by descending steps, flanked by rose bushes
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