Lone Lines & Quiet Echoes
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This book is not intended as a map, but rather as a keyring of door keys. Open them as you will. Step through and allow your own echoes to answer.
- Paul Clifton
The BlurbÂ
what if one line of poetry could open a world of imagination?
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Lone Lines & Quiet Echoes is both a return and a reinvention for long-time followers, and a compelling introduction for new readers to a poet whose words linger and resonate. Preserving the lyrical voice Paul’s readers have come to love, these monostich poems are brief, powerful, and endlessly open to interpretation. Each line becomes an ambiguous poetic canvas, inviting you to pause, reflect, and discover your own meaning. Both fresh and familiar, this collection is an interactive journey —
where the poet begins the thought, and you complete it.
Lovers of Poetry!
Already acclaimed - This collection is a beautiful exploration of reframing familiar language, of image and space in poetry. In a world obsessed with content, Paul takes the reader to a single moment before it fades and invites us to stop, breathe and remember the beauty in simply being in this, together.
This collection is a beautiful exploration of image and space in poetry, inviting the reader to stop, and fully inhabit a single moment. Paul is inviting the reader to bring their own context, their own lived experience, to each sentence, meaning that every reader ultimately constructs their own understanding of this body of work.
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These poems capture a single moment just before it turns just before it slips away and is lost forever. Sometimes capturing love, and loss, other times humour and pop culture. It is a reminder that moments are entire stories if you give them the space to linger.
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This is a book that can be opened at any page, on any day, sit with a single line for hours, consume the entire collection in one quiet moment, or return to it repeatedly as a source of prompts, reflection, and inspiration. Surreal at times, precise at others, these poems demonstrate how a pause, a word or a single thought can change the direction of how we see the everyday.
Natasha Borton
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