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'Cuckoo Rock' creates a magical, elemental, questioning journey in search of a lost tomorrow through fire, earth, air and water, meeting lots of wonderful knockabout musical characters on the way in poetry that is various, heartfelt, witty, skilfully rhymed and beautifully rhythmic.
List of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Cuckoo Rock
- Magical Valley
- Heaven Knows
- This is the Way
- Fern and Sting
- Ways and Ways
- Nine Birds
- Magpie Finds
- The Yaffling Tree
- Ticking Sonata
- Forces
- Ogre Boulder
- Nineteen Moonlights
- Inside the Sunset
- Ogre Rock
- Ogre and Under
- The Seventh Moonlight
- Nearer and Nearer
- What the Night Says
- Demonica
- The Night Soil Men
- A Cat Named Woof
- Inside Demonica
- Who Trashed Me?
- Three Ghosts
- See a Ghost?
- Night Soil Men Again
- Playing Stones
- Jasper, Jade and Jet
- At Sparkling Pond
- Electric Fish
- Splatfish
- Zenna
- Morwenna
- It's a Toot Toot!
- The Cuckoo Man
- The Dream Gatherer
- Ivy from Ivybridge
- The Ballad of Bobby Bangle and Billy Bling
- Cool Julie Dooley
- The Famous Five
- What Bobby Asked Billy
- Demonica Hated it All
- What Don, Den and Doug Said to Billy and Bobby
- Make Me This
- What it All Says
- The Magic Thread
- Happy Valley
- As Far As We Could
- Good Signs
About the author
Phil Bowen was born in Liverpool in 1949 where he taught Drama until 1979. He has worked as a full-time writer, performer and teacher since 1994. Work from his first full collection 'Variety's Hammer' was selected for The Forward Anthology of 1998. His biography of the Mersey Poets 'A Gallery to Play to' has recently been updated and republished by Liverpool University Press and he written four plays for the stage.
