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Begin with the Blurb
('Nothing to do with me, Babe' (Galway, Summer 07))Blurb is a strange word! It doesn’t conjure up to me at all what it really means – I guess, for me, it appears too near, in sound and looks, to the...
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A Poem about Poems
(Things that Look Abandoned, (Vietnam, 06))This poem won first place in the Inter Board Poetry Competition and the judge at the time was David Kirby.Here is the poem and David Kirby's comments. A Poem...
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Readings - Into the West and Heading South
(Life on the Rocks)Thanks to Barbara for passing me on the e-mail addresses of the poetry reading places in Ireland. I knew of them but had not got the contact info. and I didn’t realise that they get...
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A Rooster and a Blind Corner
(Meanwhile, A Cacti Rooster)One of the poems in the book that I'm hoping to do audio on (if courage plus price of ¡phone can be mustered up) is 'Rooster on a Dangerous Bend (Or There Is No...
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Odd Things in Odd Places (or Compartmentalise)
(For the Chop - A Puss in Boots on a Snow Day) (The Freeze is On)Compartmentalise is a poem about un-rechargeable batteries and what I do with them until I find a safe-place to leave them. I seem to...
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Mind, Match and Game to …the Inner-Critic
(Dick by the chimney) (Hanging up the handbag)It might be a slight exaggeration to say that ‘practically’ every spare minute I have is taken up with tasks all associated with the forthcoming book, but...
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Pretending Not To Be Me...
The latest on the book-front is that the second proofs are done and sent back to Salt. It took a while to corner all those devil-may-care commas etc that were lying in wait to shout ‘Can’t find me, I’m...
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Book Cover is Ready
This is the book cover for The Wrong Miracle...gorgeous, isn't it? Chris at Salt did the choosing and I'm really happy with it. There was the possibility of a different style cover too but I couldn't...
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The Maximus Miracle Virtual Book Tour Has Landed...
...at Arlene's Blog and boy has it landed with a whoosh and a bang and a whatever-you-are-having-yourself. It is 'Days of Wine and Roses' (Tom Waits...love that song and this first day of 'Maximus...
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