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Golden Apples
The Poetry of Piers Alexander
ISBN 978-0-9553969-0-8
Piers Alexander, now in his eighties, is the father of novelist Louis de Bernières, and has been writing poetry all his adult life. Louis de Bernières has edited the poems and written a five page foreword to the volume, and it has been published by us at
FCS DesignWorks. Father and son are likely to be doing poetry readings together in the coming months, and have been invited to read at the King’s Lynn poetry festival.
The book is 175 pages long.
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Maria from St. Petersberg
She glides about the Dining Room with lissom grace,
Her youthful elegance adorns her modest tasks:
Her smiling eyes make radiant her comely face.
What is our choice tonight? she asks
What does she really do, this charming Russian girl?
Apart from waiting on us here with quiet care.
Is she perhaps a student on a tourist whirl,
With all too little cash to spare?
See how she turned just then, when someone called her name;
It was a pirouette! Here may be the answer
To this our entertaining dining guessing game:
Surely she must be a dancer?
Oh No, she says, but smiles her thanks with shy delight.
She has a long term aim to run her own hotel.
She is a graduate but thinks it must be right
To learn all levels of the business well.
So this is what she does. St. Petersberg has sent
A young ambassadress whose presence will enhance
The courts of hotel management. But our lament
Is that we’ll never see Maria dance.