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<\/a><\/p>\nMy review of David Barnes’ beautiful collection Prayers waiting for God appears on The Compulsive Reader website. Thanks to Maggie Ball for publishing it.<\/p>\n
“The blurb on the back says it all: \u201cThis is David Barnes\u2019 first and last book.\u201d That David ever came to be a poet is a kind of miracle in itself. He\u2019s an unlikely candidate. A ward of the state, placed in institutions and physically and sexually abused – there was little likelihood that he would become a functioning adult, let alone a loving one who could have a happy relationship, a much-loved son, a self-deprecating sense of humour \u2013 or a writing career.<\/span> My review of David Barnes’ beautiful collection Prayers waiting for God appears on The Compulsive Reader website. Thanks to Maggie Ball for publishing it. “The blurb on the back says it all: \u201cThis is David Barnes\u2019 first and last … Continue reading
\n I first \u2018met\u2019 David in the early days of the internet when he ran an early e-lit journal called Poetry DownUnder from 1997. David published a lot of my early work which encouraged me to write more and send it to other places as well…”<\/span> MORE HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"