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Rose Mary Boehm

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A German-born UK national, Rose Mary Boehm lives and works in Lima, Peru. Author of two novels and ‘Tangents’, a full-length poetry collection published in the UK in 2010/2011, her work has been widely published in US poetry journals (online and print). She was three times winner of the now defunct Goodreads monthly competition, has twice been nominated for a Pushcart. Recent poetry collections: ‘From the Ruhr to Somewhere Near Dresden 1939-1949: A Child’s Journey’ and ‘Peru Blues or Lady Gaga Won’t Be Back’. Her latest full-length poetry MS, ‘The Rain Girl’, has been published by Chaffinch Press in August 2020 and her fifth, DO OCEANS HAVE UNDERWATER BORDERS, has just been snapped up by Kelsay Books for publication May/June 2022.

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I just finished reading this wonderful collection. I was reading it slowly. I am sure it will not defraud me with its last offerings. So far, it’s been another emotional rollercoaster. Luzajic has done it again. After PRETTY TIME MACHINE I thought it couldn’t get any better. But here they come, fast and furious. From ‘slightly borrowed’ words from Vincent van Gogh, “I am doin Read more of this blog post »

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	2015 Hessler Street Fair Poetry Anthology by John Burroughs (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Geoffrey A. Landis, Shelley Chernin (Goodreads Author) 4.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tangents 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coming Up for Air 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From the Ruhr to Somewhere Near Dresden, 1939-1949: A Child's Journey it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Telling 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rain Girl 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	WHISTLING IN THE DARK it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peru Blues Or Lady Gaga Won't Be Back it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	DO OCEANS HAVE UNDERWATER BORDERS? it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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A review of Alarie Tenille’s THREE A. M. AT THE MUSEUM by Rose Mary Boehm This is a collection of power, gentleness, and whimsy. Most of Tenille’s poems were inspired by paintings or images of some kind. It’s a pity that it is almost impossible to get ...more
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A review of Alarie Tenille’s THREE A. M. AT THE MUSEUM by Rose Mary Boehm This is a collection of power, gentleness, and whimsy. Most of Tenille’s poems were inspired by paintings or images of some kind. It’s a pity that it is almost impossible to get ...more
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WINTER IN JUNE by Lorette C. Luzajic After you’ve read half, you think you couldn’t be surprised any longer. She can’t come up with more of the lushness, that rawness, that turn of phrase, that sudden surprising thought spilled on the page without fea ...more
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Rose Boehm made a comment on Mary McCarthy’s review of Three A.M. at the Museum " Love this review. It made me WANT the book! "
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Rose Boehm and 1 other person liked Mary McCarthy's review of Three A.M. at the Museum: "With Alarie ⁰Tennille's new book, “Three A.M. at the Museum" we are invited into a quiet, intimate space, rich with story and vision, a welcome gift after our long dry pandemic season, when museums were closed, and human contact became a rare and ris" Read more of this review »
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