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Every poet has a drawerful of rejection letters. The poems in Roughly Speaking by Eddie Gibbons have for many years - some since as long ago as 1969 - lived in the shadows of their siblings who went on to have wildly exciting lives in Eddie's published poetry collections. Roughly Speaking is Eddie Gibbons' fifth volume of poetry and contains both new and rejected poems. Though some of the works included in Roughly Speaking have had brief moments of infamy in poetry magazines the majority have never seen the bright light of public acceptance, their prime achievement to date being the collection of rejection slips. To keep these overlooked orphans company there is a small band of band new poems although the readers will have to make up their minds which is which.

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Eddie Gibbons’ fourth full length collection, WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT YOU, is a poetry book like no other. Playful, thoughtful, inventive, and much larger than your average slim volume What They Say About You was shortlisted in poetry for Scottish Book of the Year. Eddie Gibbons was born in Liverpool, but lives in Scotland. He was a winner at the Inaugural Edwin Morgan poetry prize at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2008. The poetry in What They Say About You covers love, family life, glorious wordplay and celebrations of Eddie's beloved Liverpool Football Club.

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