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Pam Ayres was born in Stanford in the Vale, Berkshire (now administered as part of Oxfordshire), the youngest of six children (having four elder brothers and a sister) of Stanley and Phyllis Ayres. Her father worked for 44 years as a linesman for the Southern Electricity Board, having been a sergeant in the Grenadier Guards during the Second ...
Ayres read the poem to Deeley later in the programme saying, “We mustn’t forget people’s birthdays - the one day in all of the year for making somebody feel special, and those far away to ...
Pam Ayres, Some of Me Poetry and Some More of Me Poetry; Frances Bellerby, The First Known (posthumous) Zoë Brooks, Owl Shadows and Whispering Stone "parallel booklets" George Mackay Brown, Winterfold [22] Ciarán Carson: The New Estate, Blackstaff Press, Wake Forest University Press; Elizabeth Daryush, Collected Poems; David Day, Brass Rubbings
"The Flit Gun" is a poem by Pam Ayres, first published in Some More Of Me Poetry (1976). In the second prologue of Stephen King's 1979 science fiction thriller novel The Dead Zone, Gregory Stillson uses a Flit gun to spray ammonia in the face of a farm dog, establishing Stillson as the book's villain.
Despite the deprivations, Grateful Life beat jail and it gave addicts time to think. Many took the place and its staff as inspiration. They spent their nights filling notebooks with diary entries, essays on passages from the Big Book, drawings of skulls and heroin-is-the-devil poetry.
Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages, and it appears over 300 journals and anthologies worldwide, including Agni, American Voice, Asheville Poetry Review, Nimrod, Parabola, Parnassus, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Southeast Review. [3] Uschuk was the judge for the 2012 Naugatuck River Review Narrative Poetry Prize. [4]
A Montana woman who pleaded guilty to torturing and killing her 12-year-old grandson more than three years ago has been sentenced to spend the rest of her life in prison. Patricia Batts, 51 ...
One was released from prison in 2018 after serving most of a 20-year sentence, one is incarcerated at Michigan City's Indiana State Prison for the rest of his life and one died behind bars in 2019.