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Colin Read

This multifarious collection of life experience based poems and associated images, audio and video, ranges in genre from the pessimistic dystopian through to the optimistic utopian. Love, jealousy, fear - the raw emotions of the existential are explored and offered via this collection of poems. Included are related links to a range of media formats, including video art, photography, web based informational links and musique concrete creations by the author.

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Colin Reed

In the three and a half years from its conception in late 1890, to its opening on Whit Monday 1894, the Blackpool Tower has, in its preparation and construction, a story of triumph over conflict, of financial successes and failures, of the stern arguments of Temperance in condemnation of alcohol in its protracted application for a drinks licence, a conflict of aesthetic values in the perceived ugliness of its ironwork, scepticism of its strength to withstand a south westerly gale, a critic...

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A routine ride home on the underground metro provided Wilfred Truebody with both dreams and nightmares. He was a different man when he got off at his usual stop, and expecting to get home for tea.

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Two lifelong friends, Phoebe-Rose and Imogen, find themselves in bed together, but not through sexual need or physical attraction. Their names have been changed to hide their true identities. Unlike their recent and unexpected guest, in the bed and breakfast accommodation that they ran together and whose identity change is a little more drastic.

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Blackpool was the Royal Army Medical Corps base during WW1, with 10,000 RAMC personnel in the town. When war broke out on August 4th 1914 the holiday season in the popular holiday resort was in full swing…and then the soldiers began arriving. First the regional regiments to train on the wide beaches and stay in the plentiful accommodation available. Then the munition workers and then the medics and along with the growing numbers of injured soldiers came the Belgian refugees. In 1917 the fr...

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Dave wins the regular, monthly drinking contest in the pub for the first time, and is then considered among the elite of the hardened drinkers. Barely able to stand up, he meets Iggy, a former winner of the contest, and they go on to a military fancy dress party where there is no 'last orders'. Eventually Dave finds his way home but, as he arrives in the bedroom,he is confused to learn that his partner Belinda's seduction is not aimed at him, and he has to drastically reconsider his status...

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Jade Marie lives on a farm with her mother and father. Tom, the farmhand, is the only other, almost permanent, person who is usually around. She is in her last year at school, and the future doesn't hold much hope for her. Relationships have become increasingly strained, and her father, especially, had begun to have little to do with her. She loves the outdoors where she can escape into the fields, with only the animals as her companions, and spends much time in her own company. Falling de...

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When Chas goes to see Santa Claus to ask him why he has taken back all the presents from every house worldwide, he is surprised to find that he is offered the dream job of Ingerland national football team manager, in answer to his drunken, postal request.He returns home to a hero's welcome as all the presents are miraculously returned, but learns to his dismay, that the internal politics of human survival never change.

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Book 20 -

McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies

After the American Revolution, many Loyalists moved north, where the British colonial government awarded them generous land grants on favourable terms. The intention behind these grants was to create a landed gentry in Upper Canada that would safeguard the colony’s political security and build social cohesion among its leadership.Loyalist Land Ownership in Upper Canada’s Norfolk County, 1792–1851 examines the long-term landholding of Loyalists and other settlers who arrive...

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Taken largely from contemporary newspapers, this is a biography of Music Hall star Cissie (Cecilia) Loftus, whose career also spanned the serious stage, movies and radio, first successfully bursting onto the sage at the young age of 17. Much loved in her time but now mostly a forgotten name, she showed her versatility through published stories, music and lyrics and sketches. As well as a musician, dancer and stand-up comedian, she was mostly known, respected and loved for her skills in imp...

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When Ercolina, a music teacher, finds out that her husband Nigel has been cheating on her, she needs to regain his attentions, and hopes she has a found a way of doing so when he asks her to compose his own personal music for the industrial awards ceremony, in which he is being presented for his design of a techo-suit. The suit can be programmed with remedial properties and when worn, can influence a variety of emotional states. On the day, Ercolina makes sure it is ready for him on time a...

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A collection of poems discussing the spaces we as individuals and as a collected species inhabit and have inhabited - the beauty we overlook... the impact of colonialism on culture and land... human influences on the environment.. our interactions with nature and those around us...