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Workshop, then Poetry Reading, With a New Book

Today will be a great day! There will be books, and words, people who are friends already, and perhaps others who will become friends. All happening in my favourite Gawler pub, wonderful, how could this not be a great day!

I’m wearing good clothes, not Covid casual crappy ones for a change, and it feels good! I love helping to run this event, that happens on the last Sunday of every month, at the Prince Albert hotel, where our writing group meet every Thursday afternoon.

Being at that hotel, where we are well known, and appreciated, it makes for an enjoyable time, every time, and I’m excited, yet again, to be going there. The workshop sounds interesting, and I know the presenter will do a fine job of it. The presenter, and Guest Poet for the day, Martin Christmas, is a performer, who always works hard to make things go well.

This event was going to happen in March this year, but had to be cancelled, because of Covid-19, and I’m sure we’re all pleased we are able to get together again, even though we will have to be socially distanced, with no hugs at all, and certainly no kissing!

But words, our words, and the words of others, will bring us all together, close and kind, and I am so looking forward to it all happening, gotta go soon, or I’ll be late, seeya!

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On Hoping For Words …

Wife, mother, dog owner. Important things in my life, all of them. But I was a lover of words before I was any of those three things, and when my time is coming to an end, I hope I will still be a writer, and lover of words.

I’ll always be a mother, I certainly hope, and if the wife label changes to widow, well it will not be an unexpected thing, sad, but that’s how life often (but not always) goes. And while I plan for having a dog in my life for a long time to come, who knows if that will last until my end? I like trees too, and unicorns, and I hope for many more trees and unicorns in my life!

But the love of words, reading, writing, thinking about reading and writing. Sharing my love of words in as many ways as I can. That will stay with me, I hope. I am a reader, poet, writer of fiction and of non fiction, and an editor. I have eight published books, with an anthology with a publisher and waiting to hear whether they wish to publish it.

I am ‘working on’ a novel, the first in a series of novels, that, if they work, might well be with me until my end too … And if that novel series dies unborn, well at least I had a bit of a go at it. Poetry sings to my soul though. Poetry, those few words, stripped back to just the best words, and nothing more, that I hope will always be there with me too.

Some of my books

Words, writing them, reading them, sharing them, these are the good things I share the most with my friends. I hope my enthusiasm for words, lights a fuse in the lives of others and they shine brighter in their lives, with the glow of their words.

If I didn’t have this focus, these options and ideas, what would my life be then? A sad and dreary thing, I’m sure. Words bring understanding, insight, ideas. I love words, I think words are pretty fond of me too!