Just how circular can things get around here? I’m blogging the fact that I’m now on Twitter, and I’m going to share this blog entry on my Facebook status and also on Twitter. All I need now is for people to re-blog my blog, share my Facebook post, and re-tweet my tweet. Move over Stephen Fry, I’m wondering where all this will end…
Ebooks Etc is the name of a bookshop with branches in Pretoria and Centurion in South Africa. If you drop in you’ll find Lupa stocked on their shelves. Discerning folk, these Southern Hemisphere types, if you ask me.
M.
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The sales are being handled by my hard-working literary agent.
Enjoy!
M
© Oversteps Books
Although my brand new collection of poems, I am not a fish, has not yet been officially launched, I have just been handed a copy. I have to say it looks good, well finished, and of course it’s always a pleasure to see one’s own work right there in hard copy. In due course I hope to sell some signed copies by mail order; I expect that these will actually cost a little more than you would pay in a shop or from a distributor, in order to cover packing and postage, but that can’t be helped. Stay tuned here for more news about the official publication date. (I’ll also be looking at the possibility of selling signed copies of my novel Lupa by the same method.)
Are you waiting eagerly for the opportunity to buy a copy of I am not a fish, my new poetry book which is due out this month? Why not contact the publisher in advance and let them know? I would be grateful for your support – the book contains poems which have not been published anywhere else.
detail from ‘The Garden of Allah’ © Marie Taylor
All Fools Day seems as good a time as any to publish an e-zine. This year’s Spring Showcase at the zen space is now on line, with a peaceful feel to it, and contributions from many new writers. Please visit.
Shortly after I posted this item, I heard from the Editor-in-Chief that he had decided against the re-launch mentioned below. That’s his prerogative, and I respect his decision.
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Well, it has been some time since the last print copy of Sonnetto Poesia was seen. Officially the magazine closed more than a year ago, but of course the editorial team has been involved in producing The Phoenix Rising from the Ashes anthology, which is due out in June. But the whisper now is that the magazine may well be re-launched on line. It’s early days, but I’ll let you know for definite as I get more news – probably by late July.
Meanwhile, what would readers want from a magazine devoted to a traditional verse form like the sonnet? Where does formal verse stand in the twenty-first century? As you know, I cut my teeth on formal verse – it gave me an appreciation of technical power in poetry and has informed my writing of free and experimental poetry – and I regard the Chinese walls between styles of poetry as being unhelpful and in need of demolition. Is it a contradiction, therefore, for me to be involved with and concerned about publications dedicated solely to one poetic form?
I would be interested to hear your views.
M.
The Phoenix Rising from the Ashes, the 21st century’s first major anthology of sonnets, is due for launch in June. More precise details when I get them…
I just made that word up. The neologisms just keep on coming…
(On reading the comments below, probably herpetolalia is just as good…)
I am not a fish is now on the last stages of editing, and I should know the publication date soon. Meanwhile a short passage has been reinserted in a key scene in Lupa; its absence doesn’t spoil the book (if you have a copy already), but I’m relieved to restore an emotional dimension to the scene in question. Editing and revision of a written work are not necessarily closed processes…
Marie Marshall 