Notes from a Jazz Life (2nd edition)Notes from a Jazz Life is now updated to cover Digby Fairweathers career as a jazz cornetist, band leader, educator and broadcaster, working with George Melly and leading his band the Half Dozen, now celebrating their twentieth anniversary. The author provides revealing reflections on the personal life and career of a popular jazz musician and, with a wealth of warm, hilarious anecdotes, he writes honestly about all the challenges, frustrations and

and received the Poetry Society’s Hamish Canham Poetry Prize in 2005

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May Menassa – Excerpt from Walking in the Dust

and totally trustworthy… This is poetry of earned authority

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and for the duration of the Olympics a truce was declared so that athletes could come and go safely

tragedies and beauties of life

and a complete bilbiography of Salmon's publications

Zakaria Mohammed: Poems

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