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A Nice New Poetry Website

April 25, 2010 8:22 am

Dear Friends,

It’s been a while since I popped something on to this part of my website. What can I say? I’ve been lazy, most definitely, but I’ve also been doing other stuff and I’m going to tell you about that now.

For a while I’ve been directing poetry related people to this site, and their response has always been the same.
“There’s not much poetry on it, is there?”
To that reply I can do nothing but agree. There isn’t. To alleviate this problem and to stop people telling me there’s not much poetry on my website I’ve come up with a solution. A shiny new dedicated poetry website where I can plonk all my poetry related work. You can find it at

http://www.poetrycupboard.com

Do go and have a look around. I’d be more than pleased. Hopefully it should prove to be a useful resource for anyone who deems my work worthy of a browse.

So, from now, if it’s poetry your after, go to poetry cupboard. If it’s prose or any of the other bits and bobs I get up to, come here. It all seems to make sense doing it that way.

That’s about it really. Oh, my next poetry book is coming along well, thanks for asking. I’m probably about two thirds of the way through it. I’m hoping for publication later in the year (probably towards the end). I’m quite excited about it because my last two little books were just that, little. This new book won’t be little, it’ll be big. Well, not big, but bigger. It’ll have about 60-70 poems in it. I’m really looking forward to getting it finished and out to the big world.

I’m also working on a couple of other poetry ideas. More details on those when there’s something of any worth to report.

All that is left for me to say is that I hope you’re all well and life is treating you just lush.

Ta.

Private Dancer

April 22, 2010 9:56 am

I’m wondering what percentage of private dancers have done a private dance to Private Dancer by Tina Turner. I doubt Tina Turner herself has done a private dance to Private Dancer because she’s not actually a private dancer. Saying that, maybe she used to do a private Dance for Ike Turner, but that wouldn’t have been to Private Dancer. Private Dancer wasn’t written in those days.