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And she should know because she is an unusual girl who can see things others can't

It is spoken by the hopeless

Rob McLennan was born in Ottawa in 1970

Bonjour Mr Inshaw Fadwa al-Qasem strongly evoking the poetry ofBonjour Mr Inshaw is a homage by the award winning poet Peter Robinson to David Inshaw, the celebrated painter, whom he first met during the artist? s years as Creative Arts Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the mid 1970s. Largely produced in an unexpected burst of inspiration after a visit to the painter? s studio early in 2019, these poems combine memories of Inshaw? s paintings, or characteristic landscapes, with experiences of his company