story and verse: Small Stones (21)

The grater lying on its side has slivers of cheese
clinging like milk teeth to the holes inside.

Book List (Useful!)

How (Not) to Get your poetry Published - Helena Nelson
52 Ways of Looking at a Poem - Ruth Padel
A Companion to the Folklore, Myths & Customs of Britain - Marc Alexander
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Bewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable ISBN 0-304-35873-8
An A-Z of almost Everything
Descriptionary (A Thematic Dictionary) ISBN 0-8160-4106-7
Writing Poetry by W.N. Herbert (Routledge) ISBN 978-0-415-46154-2
Modern Women Poets (edited by Deryn Rees-Jones) ISBN 1-85224-678-2 Bloodaxe Books
The Making of a Poem (Anthology of Poetic Form) ISBN 0-393-04916-7
Is there a book in you? by Alison Baverstock ISBN 0-7136-7932-8
The Poet's Craft (Sandy Brownjohn) ISBN 0 340 80292 8

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