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Songs of Waking
Songs of Waking | Jonathan Simons
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A collection of poems.
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Songs of Waking | Jonathan Simons
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"I carry my body
in and around
many rooms,
most of them
much quieter
than this nervous
chatter within."

- A Thousand Empty Rooms

[Image: George Tooker]

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Songs of Waking | Jonathan Simons
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This was my day's #bookhaul 📚
• Seven Days is a poetry collection by Clarissa Graves, Robert's older sister. 1927 first edition, a browse through which seems promising.
• Songs of Waking is a poetry collection by Jonathan Simons of offline publisher Analog Sea. I love their books and picked this up without noticing the rather hefty-for-a-slim-book price of £16.99 😳 Still, a thing of beauty is a joy forever!
• A Book of Narrative Verse is a ⬇️

Bookwomble ... poetry collection (I'm sensing a theme here 🧐) of longer form verse, which I think after a few decades of short form poetry reading I may now be ready for.
• The Second Edition of Edward FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by E. Heron-Allen is my favourite of these acquisitions, as I've been looking for a critical edition forever, and this is it! It's another first edition, 1908, so not exactly cutting edge, but then it's the only one ⬇️
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Bookwomble ... I've ever come across, and it's lovely 😍
• Penguin Parade 1 is a collection of short stories published in this 1937 edition for the first time. A couple of authors I've heard of, but mostly unknown to me. If I like this one, the bookshop has a run of the following issues (unless someone beats me to them!)
• Finally, the book I actually went in for is the hardback collection of zine articles by Weird Walk. It's lush 💛
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TieDyeDude Nice haul! Sounds like checked off some big wishlist items. 3w
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Leftcoastzen Wow! 3w
Bookwomble @TieDyeDude ✅ Definitely for the Rubáiyát study 🤤 2w
Bookwomble @Leftcoastzen "Wow!" was my reaction to seeing Songs of Waking, and a sharp intake of breath to seeing the Rubáiyát study. I might go so far as to say that I then "released a breath I hadn't realised I was holding!" ? 2w
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