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    The Wishing Line
    The Wishing Line
    The Wishing Line
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    The Wishing Line

    By Simon Wells

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    I don't suppose you've felt the space between us. But I measure it out every single day. Looking through your eyes I see a stranger who keeps colliding with our heart and then steals your gaze. From the poem Somersault.

    The Wishing Line is a new collection of words, verse and despatches from City to Suburbia. Simon Wells is the author of 13 books. This is his second volume of poetry.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKaleidoscope
    Release dateJan 18, 2019
    ISBN9780463251225
    The Wishing Line
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    Simon Wells

    Simon Wells has written on film and music for numerous magazines and newspapers including The Guardian; The Times and The Independent. He is a regular contributor to Empire, Record Collector, Hotdog, TV Zone, Watch, Total Film, and The Beatles’ Book, the group’s official magazine In addition to his writing credits, Simon has researched projects for the likes of the BBC, Channel Four, C5, Discovery Channel and Virgin Media, as well as broadcasting live on LBC, ITN and the BBC on film and music. In My World is a free sample of Simon's poetry which will coincide with The Wishing Line, Stolen Words From Suburbia set for release 2019.

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      The Wishing Line - Simon Wells

      THE WISHING LINE

      SIMON WELLS

      For Mark Farran

       My partner in rhyme

      May you shine dear boy

      Where forever you may roam

      First published in 2019 by:

      Griffiths-Publishing

      © Copyright 2019

      Griffiths-Publishing

      © Copyright 2019

      (Simon Wells)

      ISBN: 9780463251225

      The right of (Author) to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by Simon Wells in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      All Rights Reserved

      No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with the written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1956 (as amended).

      CONTENTS

      The Angel of the Hillside

      Sometimes in the Morning

      Between 13 and 14 Staines to Heathrow

      Edwin Parsons

      Ella

      An Echo in Our Hands

      The Girl who Switched off the World

      Laughing at the Moon

      Be

      Instinct

      My Town is Painted Green

      Drummond Road

      There’s Beauty in What You Do

      (It’s Just you Don’t Know it)

      Concrete Hearts and Souls

      Feather in the Road

      The Idle Poet

      Come Down its Morning Child

      Instead of Rushing Home from Work, I Decided to Look Around

      But I Will Always Love you

      Somersault

      The Earl of Serenity

      She Walks in Rhyme in Front of Me.

      Moonlight on the Water

      The Sweetest Fool

      You Can Always Come Home

      The Right Way

      Further Down the Road

      You Made Me

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