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    Deadly Pollen
    Deadly Pollen
    Deadly Pollen
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    Deadly Pollen

    By Stephen Oliver

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
    Deadly Pollen
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    Stephen Oliver

    Stephen Oliver recently retired as Bishop of Stepney. Before that he was Senior Producer in BBC Religious Broadcasting, Vicar of Leeds, and Canon of St Paul's Cathedral.

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      Deadly Pollen - Stephen Oliver

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Deadly Pollen, by Stephen Oliver

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      Title: Deadly Pollen

      Author: Stephen Oliver

      Release Date: March 9, 2004 [eBook #11522] [Most recently updated August 2, 2004]

      Language: English

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DEADLY POLLEN***

      Copyright (C) 2003 by Stephen Oliver.

      DEADLY POLLEN

      Stephen Oliver

      WORD RIOT PRESS

      (c) Stephen Oliver, 2003

      Books by Stephen Oliver

      Henwise (1975)

      & Interviews (1978)

      Autumn Songs (1978)

      Letter To James K. Baxter (1980)

      Earthbound Mirrors (1984)

      Guardians, Not Angels (1993)

      Islands of Wilderness - A Romance (1996)

      Unmanned (1999)

      Election Year Blues (1999)

      Night of Warehouses: Poems 1978 - 2000 (2001)

      Deadly Pollen (2003)

      Ballads, Satire & Salt (2003)

      Recordings

      Earthbound Mirrors, a selection, Stephen Oliver,

      Ode Records Label, Auckland, (cassette) 1984

      For more information on Stephen Oliver visit: http://people.smartchat.net.au/~sao/

      Cover design: Pina Ricciu. Cover image: The Lithuanian Bison, engraving from J. von Brincken, 1828.

      Acknowledgements: Antipodes (USA), Biff's Quarterly (USA), Brief (NZ),

      Catalyzer Journal (USA), Comet Magazine (San Francisco), JAAM (NZ),

      Poetry NZ/26 featured poet, San Francisco Salvo, Spreadhead (USA),

      Thylazine (Aust).

      An Actual Encounter With the Sun On / My Balcony At France Street: a parody on Frank O'Hara's 'A True Account Of Talking / To The Sun At Fire Island' who in turn based his account on Mayakovsky's more robust poem, 'A Most Extraordinary Adventure'. POETS' PALACE: a name given by the author to an old Kauri, weatherboard guest house in France Street (the upper story of which he occupied in the early '80s) near the prostitute's strip off K'rd, Auckland. Various 'emerging' poets & artists lived downstairs at intervals during this period. As the last of its kind in Newton Gully this 100 year old wooden building was finally demolished at the close of the decade.

      Deadly Pollen is published by

      Word Riot Press

      PO Box 414

      Middletown, NJ 07748

      USA

      http://www.wordriot.org/press

      ISBN 0-9728200-2-7

      Typeset by Word Riot Press in Bembo

      Contents

      Deadly Pollen

      1. 'ZIONISM:'

      2. 'You return to the stupa, yearly,'

      3. 'The stones collected. Ground'

      4. ' With digital, there is no past, '

      5. 'How is it the floating island'

      6. 'Mediocre

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