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Less

Ian Gouge
2025 Released
82 Pages
1-2 Hours
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Coverstory BooksISBN 9781068670169
Less (adv.) a smaller amount (of)

In this, Ian Gouge's eleventh collection of poetry, "less" is characterised by absence: of love, of money, of understanding, and of life. We are exposed - on occasion brutally - to an experience of the world which is seldom what we would wish it to be.

facts evaporate under a microscope

if its lenses are looked through

with the eye that's always closed

- from 'a question of honesty'

Ian Gouge

Ian Gouge has been writing for many years with a number books to his name, mainly novels, short stories, and collections of poetry. He is a prize-winning short story writer and has had his prose and poetry published widely. Since June 2023 he had performed his poetic monologue 'Crash' on five separate occasions. A sometime Indie Publisher, he also mentors at public writers' retreats. You can find his work on Substack at Writing until the light goes out.

More by Ian Gouge

Writing to Gisella and Other Stories
Once Significant Others
The Opposite of Remembering
First-time Visions of Earth from Space
Punctuations from History
Triple Measures
Not the Sonnets
Crash
At Maunston Quay
After the Rehearsals
An Infinity of Mirrors
Losing Moby Dick and Other Stories

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