I buy small press poetry books a lot. I always order and buy through my local shop, The Watermill in Aberfeldy, when I can even though most presses encourage me to buy direct. I assume what I do is better for press and poet - moving books through distributers - but am I wrong?
Because we're going to Shetland together I give her Storm Pegs.
Because she asked about Jen Hadfield I show her Nigh-No-Place. Then read it myself. Eighteen years! Forgotten Canadian poems a bonus. The Shetland poems still so alive. Her remembered voice scoops them off the page. It's a joy!
viewed from Perthshire it's called a Saltire! Thank-you for your wish which came true though we are off to the local drama club performance tonight with our macks under our sensible arms because the rain is due to start during the second act.
'The Labour MP Helena Dollimore said it would be a “great shame” if 1066 country – the area named after the battle – was locked out of “this national moment”.'
The MP for Hastings and Rye thinks that the greatest defeat in English history was a "national moment"
Macron knows what he is doing!
A wake up call to publishers everywhere. No matter what gendre. I couldn't stop flicking back to the cover as I read the poems. I didn't get all the connections but it was fun trying. Make Bookcovers Relevant Again!
ps there is much more to this important collection, but this one great idea
#smallpoemsunday
Back in the days half a century ago when this was an issue I wrote a 1 word poem with a 2 word title
To Rome
Pill
Grim
Age
Moving against Quakers is not a sign of intelligent policing. We share the mission: 'Keeping the peace'. Let's work on it together.
He was younger than the atom bomb.
All his life he experimented with hard-boiled eggs.
He won't be home this evening, so
don't worry; don't hurry to report him missing
Brian Patten was young. That was the whole point. As you can tell, i'm a little bit cross
Richard Chadburn
I love that the cover picture is part of a collection in which work colleagues touch each other corporately, parents inevitably age, friends and siblings are lost and found.
@robinhoughton.bsky.social is the radiologist who in showing us more than we can see Illuminates our darkness. Precious poetry
Richard Chadburn
I'm loving everty minute of 'sat with and reread'ing it.
