A peek into “Old & Unwise” With only ten days till the official release of Old & UnWise – A Haphazard Collection of Poetry and Thought I thought I would throw a few titbits to those who may be tempted to purchase the book. The following is an extract of the foreword written by JosephContinue reading “These Words are not Mine”
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Night Crazies
When your mind simply goes into overdrive. Inspiration is a very strange thing. It is a Shapeshifter that can be a smell, an image, a sound, the taste of charcoal in the night air or simply the sensation of a spider running down your back. We never know when it is going to hit us,Continue reading “Night Crazies”
Old & UnWise
A Haphazard Collection of Poetry and Thought It is really hard to describe how excited I was yesterday to find out that Old & UnWise had started to appear for pre-order on some websites (see below). I have already had poems published in a couple of anthologies, however the poetry in this book is allContinue reading “Old & UnWise”
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”
Distant Connections
A helping hand from across the seas It is amazing how many generous people there are out there in this world of chaos. I discovered a number of them in the online poetry community. I had just started to get into a writing groove, after thirty plus years of abstaining from poetry writing, when theContinue reading “Distant Connections”
Out of this world
The Aliens and I received a book. It was so good to receive the first hard copy proof of my book. Despite what the title of this blog says I did not receive the book from out of space, although my Alien friends may add some fuel for conspiracy theorists. I did actually write allContinue reading “Out of this world”
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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