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Michael GouldMichael Gould

Michael Gould is a Wellington writer. His poetry has appeared in Phantom Billstickers Café Reader, Snorkel and Landfall. He is also the author of a remarkable book on film, Surrealism and the Cinema: Open-eyed Screening (1976). Michael was born in Toronto in 1950.

The Friday Poem: ‘They called it love’ by Michael Gould

24 November 2017 by Michael Gould

New verse by Canadian New Zealand writer Michael Gould.   They called it love   I saw the man I thought I loved three times in two days, but after that we didn’t have much to say we kissed, though our eyes didn’t meet and smiled, but a sense of denial was already spelling defeat.   Was … Read more

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