As soon as I heard the foorsteps on my driveway a few minutes ago I knew that it would have to be my new titles being delivered.
Just a feeling.
The top row are the last of my Archive series. Books 17 – 20, and bring my otherwise unassigned poetry up to 2020. Anything being written now can bide its time till next year, and a Volume 21, I reckon.
The theme for this group of 4 books is local grasses that I have taken pictures of in the last couple of weeks.
I think I need to move away from describing all these books as ‘journeys’, though that seems an accurate description of the contents, most of the time. I’ll work on that.
The lower 4 collections cover dementia, a fantasy series about being lost in space, some seventeen syllable poetry that covers some specific areas – hidden harmonies, secret shrines, and so on. The last of them is a fantasy collection, that covers a wide range of topics.
As with all of these, none are quite ready for release and will want some editing attention, but the fact of them is a delight. They exist in book form and I can play with them now at my leisure.
Woo Hoo!
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Frank Prem Poetry 
What an exciting delivery!
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I’m delighted, Peggy. Straight into a hard copy edit of the dementia book.
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There’s a 12 lifetime step-program for that addiction … I think
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12 may not be enough …
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I’m a recidivist, and have to reset the clock on a regular basis …
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YOu could write about that . . .
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Too close to home; I’d have to consider my faults under a microscope
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I worry that other parts of life slip away, or become very difficult to focus on without effort and resentment.
Strange creatures we become.
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Strange, indeed.
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Just as a by the way, using greyscale images for the Cielonaut has worked ok, I think.
I ended up using a different font for the poems accompanying the images, and greyscale for the cosmos pics themselves.
Each image is placed on a facing (even) page with its poem on the odd side, so they stay together during any reading.
Haven’t had a chance to go over it properly, yet, but ok at a glance.
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pics can make the mood, clarify the subtext, and provide respite from the sharpness of words. Well done.
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I love the sense of having the image behave as I want it to. Not saying that I’m surpassing myself or anything like that – I’m very limited in what I can do and what I can imagine to do – but I can at least get close now to representing what is in my mind a little better. Make it more accessible to a reader.
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Such fun!
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iIt very much is, Liz. And great skills to pick up on the way.
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Definitely! I know those skills are hard-won.
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I’m finding editing very much easier when doing it from a book. I don’t like printing manuscripts to do that, and the book makes it feel real. A bonus.
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There is something good emerging from 2020 despite the trials. You are an inspiration, Frank.
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