Ida: Searching for The Jazz Baby – a week away

Ida: Searching for The Jazz Baby - Paperback release date 13th January 2023. Here comes Ida All the automatic widgets at Amazon and Smashwords and Bookbub and various other places where books are listed pre-release are telling me that the release date for Ida is just a week away. This little book has been a …

Revision at the end of a year

A task of revision - A Magpie Sings at Midnight What a bittersweet thing is revision. You might recall that a while back I allowed myself to get carried away by using lines and phrases taken from T. S Eliot's The Waste Land as the basis for my own writing purposes, acting as prompts for …

a ripple of the air (a breath to take)

a ripple of the air (a breath to take) - damsel fly - 22/12/2022 hold I hold a breathto take all the dayI have beenflying ridingon breezes in hot pursuitof . . . a leaf movessuggestively the currentof the airdriftsa ripple this way . . . this way . . . that and thenaround again …

provocations for a workshop on poetry

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Arcs, Arcs, Arcs! They’re everywhere!

Two new books in the New Year. Ida: Searching for The Jazz Baby - preorder now! I'm delighted to have just sent out my second invitation to review forthcoming releases to my small ARC early readers group. It always feels like a bit of an ordeal getting things release-ready, let alone doing so for two …

watch me (I wait you)

watch me (I wait you) - mugshots - 14/12/2022 watch me ... I watchyou faithplays no part you may dosomethingand Iwilldo something before you before me the timingis unsurebut . . . you willandI will I watchyouwatch me so nearlyIam ready ~

the place (that is mine)

the place (that is mine) - mugshots - 13/12/2022 I will walkwhere no-one goes let the roaddecide my fate keep my eyesfastupon the ground one footstepis allthat I can take one stepthenone step more slowlyslowI make my way all the sightsthat lieso low those are mine I takemy place ~

again (in almanac or archive)

a yearalmost done now another archivecomplete so I can stareat the pastto recallwhat has been or take uprandom volumes –pretendthey are new – read my lifeover to liveonce again ~

A Specialist at The Recycled Heart – review

Visitors here will likely be familiar with Liz Gauffreau from our various interactions, conversations and discussion. If not, I recommend a visit to Liz's page to get to know her. I was both moved and delighted recently to come across her review of my Speculative Fiction/poetry collection - A Specialist at The Recycled Heart. Her …

change (for the sake of love)

change (for the sake of love) - 05/12/2022 for the sakeof loveI changemyself from what I was towhat will be the shapeto comefrom justa memory for the sakeof lovethe changeof me ~