The author, at 58, is releasing their first solo poetry book titled “Old & UnWise – A Haphazard Collection of Poetry and Thought.” It reflects their diverse range of poetry, covering social justice, domestic abuse, the environment, and fantasy. The book encapsulates their concerns about the youth’s future and showcases both their pensive and humorous sides.
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Cover Up Job
A meeting of two minds Although I was born in the UK and my mother tongue is English I was born of Maltese parentage. In Maltese there is an expression which loosely translates as The first that eats is the eye. When I decided to put together Old & UnWise – A Haphazard Collection of PoetryContinue reading “Cover Up Job”
Two Timing
Taking two perspectives to a prompt Prompts are a great way to stimulate the writing experience. And there are so many out there. Here on WordPress, Instagram, Threads, a thing called X formerly called something else and Facebook to name but a few. The amount of prompts that are posted every day is quite impressive.Continue reading “Two Timing”
Poetry in motion
Spiralistic In this day of social media and the importance of the visual spectrum it was only a matter of time before poetry started to be embellished by accompanying images and video. There have been many discussions about the value of this, and I have certainly had a few.There are those, often labelled purists, whoContinue reading “Poetry in motion”
What goes into a poetry book
Words, words, words So the manuscript of my poetry book is finally ready. It has been a long process with much deliberation over the content and design. However, the building blocks of a poetry book are the words, and there are lots of them. There are many stories to tell about Old & Unwise –Continue reading “What goes into a poetry book”
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