Month: April 2022

poetry

Book Is Becoming More Real!

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When I sent off the manuscript to my chosen publisher, I wasn’t sure whether it would be accepted. I wasn’t unsure about the quality of what I’d submitted, but books can be rejected for a variety of reasons, beyond quality if the work/words.

It this new poetry collection was accepted, and the process of the publisher turning my poems and additional material into an actual poetry collection with a cover has begun!

Today that publisher, Gunninderra Press, sent me an image for possible use as the image for the front cover, and my next book is suddenly feeling even more real!

This next poetry collection is going to be my absolute best collection ever, and I feel I could never produce another one, and it wouldn’t matter, this poetry collection is perfection in poetic form! Or perhaps I’m kidding myself?

No, Stephen Matthews from Ginninderra Press likes it, and I trust his judgement, so this book-to-be is a good one! Isn’t as good as I feel it is at the moment? Only time will tell, but I’m happy with how this book looks and reads!

I’ve been working with Stephen a little bit about some of the non poetry bits and pieces of the book today (via email), and in the pit of my tummy, I can feel excitement is beginning to grow!

The actual putting together of the book is still not finished and so it usn’t printed yet, but there is an image for the front cover considered and approved of by me. So it is certainly looking like I will have an actual book to read from at the book launch, and copies to sell too, this is one of my favourite stages of this process, when I see my book being read by others!

The act of writing a poem can feel frustrating at times, trying to find a publisher can feel difficult if not impossible, and marketing, especially with a self-published book is horrid, but book launches are fun and joyous occasions!

So keep working on ‘LEONARD COHEN IS DEAD’ Stephen, so this new book will be ready to be launched at the end of May!

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Blogging About My Next Poetry Collection?

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Blogging about poetry, interesting? I hope so! Now I’m wondering, could I write a poem about blogging, or even lots of poems about blogging, a whole collection’s worth?

Back to the subject of this blog post, regarding my next poetry collection. It’s underway, written, submitted, and has a back blurb written. Now it just needs to finish off the editing, get looked at by me for approval of the proof copy, and then it gets printed!

In case you’re interested, the title of this new collection is ‘Leonard Cohen Is Dead’, because that is the title of the first poem in the collection, and it’s an attention grabbing title, isn’t it? I wrote further about getting this collection to the ‘published’ stage here, which may be of interest to poets who have had a collection published, or would like to have one published.

My ideas about this are my own, and different people may get to that point in different ways. Some of the bits may be the same though, and it has worked well for me, on this occasion, and previously, in slightly different ways perhaps … But until you try it, you won’t know the best way you have for getting that collection published, yourself.

I haven’t always had my work published by actual publishers, but most recently, that is the way I’ve been going with my poetry recently, and it’s been ‘working for me’, as in, books get produced, and I get some money out of it all! The connections with readers are always the most important thing for me, though. I love sharing my words with people!

A Poem About Blogging?
A poem or a blog post, that is the question –
One a mere slice, a taste, or is it more?
A poem can be so small, but so deep,
an ocean’s worth of words, in a thimble
of meaning, and truth …

A blog post, can be a brief piece too,
but it may connect with hordes of readers, 
internet surfing, and include so much –
research, images, links, comments 
from interested others

Which is best, is it a contest of words?
Worth and value, trite words or true?
Or is it simple fact, all words can win?
This is the way I see it, for sure, all words
are worthy to me!

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That little poem just cropped up yesterday, and I finished it today. I’m posting it here, on this blog post to show, perhaps what a poem can do, in few words, that would usually use many more words, in a blog post. And while I don’t consider this little poem to be my best work ever, I feel it does show the difference, between the two forms of writing.

And it was easier for me to express my point in that poem, that the truth is that I consider words, all of them, to be the best thing, in whatever form/genre they are presented. And if you are reading this piece, what to you think? Are you a word lover too? I won’t be surprised if you say yes!

And going back to the heading for this blog post, I am sure most of the poems in my next poetry collection, which is titled “Leonard Cohen Is Dead”, are far more worthy, and worked on, than the poem above this. But the poem up there has done what I wanted it to do, to give an example to further the point I wanted to make …

So that task is done, and so it is time for me to finish off, lest this short blog post out stay its welcome! Please leave a comment, if you have anything to say about blogging, or poetry, or words in general!

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I’m Still Here on WordPress, but on Medium too …

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I just like writing, about all kinds of different things, in a variety of genre … And if I can make a bit of money from my words, well, who wouldn’t want that? WordPress and Medium are both writing platforms, but with Medium a bit advantage is that you can get paid for what you write, easily.

I’ve been a member of Medium.com for a year now, and today I wrote this piece where I wrote about my first year. It may not be the best prose ever written, but if you’re interested in writing, and being paid for it, why not have a read.

And of course, if you like what I read, you can take a look at some of my other articles on Medium, where I seem to be posted quite a few things about our new dog, a big, black, beautiful boy, named Lenny, previously Lenny The Jet, until he retired from Greyhound Racing late last year.

So yes, here I am, still writing on WordPress, still connecting with my friends, Yay to making, and continuing connections! And an important thing I need to talk about here, on this blog of mine, my most important one, (I have others on the WordPress platform). And that important thing, is taking up a lot of my attention, when I’m not writing on Medium.

And what is that important thing? It is a new poetry collection, written by me, and to be published by Ginninderra Press. Woo hoo! Yay me! I feel this may be my best poetry collection yet, and I hope lots of people get themselves a copy, and love it too! And the title of this one is something that may attract the interest many, whether poetry lovers or not. The book’s title is also the title of the first poem in the collection, and I think it’s a fine poem too!

Yes, I am excited about this collection, in case you were wondering. And I’m thrilled that it will probably be launched at the Prince Albert Hotel on 29 May 2022, and I will also be the Guest poet there for the Gawler Poets At The Pub event, with the book launch taking the place of the usual workshop, then people can get some lunch and then will be the poetry reading, with me there as the guest poet. Fun times!

So yes, I am still writing here on this blog on WordPress, because I have people here who also follow me, and my words. Mix and match, and share the words, that’s what it’s all about. The more connections made, the bigger and better, things can be.

I love my writing world – I received the annual royalty payment I get for a book I wrote what feels like another life ago, but wasn’t really all that far back. I love royalties, and I love PLRs and ELRs as well, and I might be getting those later on in the year. Who says you can’t make money from being a writer?

Well, I don’t say that, I just say, don’t expect to be able to pay off your home loan with the money earned with your words, necessarily … Some people do manage to do it, in a variety of ways, break through into the big money, but the numbers for that are lower than the syllable count of a haiku poem! That’s seventeen syllables, in case you didn’t know …

Anyway, feel free to continue reading my words here or check out Medium. Maybe you’d like to join Medium, after you check it out, who knows. By the way, if you do read my articles on Medium as well as the one I’m writing about here, you’ll see at the end of each article, my other articles, somewhere to click to get email notification of my having written a new article, and also, super bonus, the spot where you can sign up to become a writer for Medium too! And I write super bonus, because if you sign up there, I will get money too, if you sign up and earn money!

Friends sharing the love! Haha. Or ignore all of that and keep on doing what you want to do, all good! It’s about the words, not the money!