very minor announcement

[mysterygirl]

Many congratulations!

I have to agree with whoever said it's not a minor acheivement, too!

 

[marty21]

Saucy git.

Very well done by the way!

the saucy one didn't make the cut

i thought it was in it, but i got a copy today and it isn't in it

still the book looks great

 

[tastebud]

post another then.. one that is in there.

 

[marty21]

a short

small bottle of whiskey


a man passed me
eyes to the ground
clutching a small bottle of whiskey
a bottle of water
and a packet of salt and vinegar crisps

eager to tackle the short distance
between the shop and his flat

 

[tastebud]

ta!

 

[fat hamster]

Well done, mate.

 

[sheothebudworths]

A few week's ago Pickman's Model (I think) made a comment about how so many people when they're trying to write poetry use the word "shards". Then by pure coincidence the great poet Cheesypoof posted up a, erm... "interesting" poem that had the word "shards" in it.


It was all perfectly amusing. If you were there. At the time.


erm...

It was Idaho...

 

[MysteryGuest]

Thank you for making me look stupid again, sheo.


<--- sarcastic smile no. 2

 

[sheothebudworths]

You're welcome MG.

 

[MysteryGuest]

I'm glad that at least in your world you're happy.

 

[onemonkey]

hurrah, at long last someone can post their own poems to the poem of the day thread without ruby telling them off.

unless we beat you to it

congratulations

 

[Matt S]

Marty,

Congrats! I don't know you really, but have seen you posting on the boards....out of interest, do you read much William Carlos Williams? Seems like he might be an influence?

Matt (the amateur critic!)

 

[marty21]

Marty,

Congrats! I don't know you really, but have seen you posting on the boards....out of interest, do you read much William Carlos Williams? Seems like he might be an influence?

Matt (the amateur critic!)

haven't yet, but i think i'll check him out, it might be me influencing him

 

[Matt S]

From what you've posted up, I think you would like Williams:

'The Term'

A rumpled sheet
Of brown paper
About the length

And apparent bulk
Of a man was
Rolling with the

Wind slowly over
And over in
The street as

A car drove down
Upon it and
Crushed it to

The ground. Unlike
A man it rose
Again rolling

With the wind over
And over to be as
It was before.

 

[marty21]

From what you've posted up, I think you would like Williams:

'The Term'

A rumpled sheet
Of brown paper
About the length

And apparent bulk
Of a man was
Rolling with the

Wind slowly over
And over in
The street as

A car drove down
Upon it and
Crushed it to

The ground. Unlike
A man it rose
Again rolling

With the wind over
And over to be as
It was before.

i do like it, and it is a similar style, and honestly i've never read him before, i'll definitely check him out now

 

[cesare]

Couple of good reviews there Marty

 

[Badger Kitten]

Well done, that is ace. I am buying it tomorrow. I like sexy office poetry.

edit: just realised this was in fact published 2 years ago and someone has bumped the thread. Still getting it though as I liked both sample poems given on the thread and it is so hard to get poetry published that it must be good.

 

[marty21]

Well done, that is ace. I am buying it tomorrow. I like sexy office poetry.

edit: just realised this was in fact published 2 years ago and someone has bumped the thread. Still getting it though as I liked both sample poems given on the thread and it is so hard to get poetry published that it must be good.

cheers - sales have been a little "ahem" slow

then office sex one didn't make the cut in the end - publishers

 

[Badger Kitten]

Ah well, I shall look forwrad to it arriving in 4-6 weeks which is what it told me for delivery

 

[marty21]

Ah well, I shall look forwrad to it arriving in 4-6 weeks which is what it told me for delivery

we can do a mutual signing eachother's book one day

 

[tarannau]

Good on you, old 'half wildman of Hackney.' Well that's what the Amazon reader reviewer called you anyway.

 

[marty21]

Good on you, old 'half wildman of Hackney.' Well that's what the Amazon reader reviewer called you anyway.

tbh, that reviewer was my old flatmate it was an unsolicited review

 

[cesare]

I found it marty! Will you sign mine once someone buys it for me off my wishlist please?

 

[Badger Kitten]

we can have an urban book festival, a very small one, round a pub table.

 

[the button]

Will you sign mine once someone buys it for me off my wishlist please?

It's only a fiver.

(and quite a bargain, at that )

 

[cesare]

cheers - sales have been a little "ahem" slow

That's cos you ain't promoted it properly

Button, it's all very well, you anarcho lot with your spendthrift ways

 

[marty21]

That's cos you ain't promoted it properly

Button, it's all very well, you anarcho lot with your spendthrift ways

it's a slow burning publicity campaign - it's still turning over - poetry lasts forever, not just for christmas

 

[marty21]

I found it marty! Will you sign mine once someone buys it for me off my wishlist please?

be delighted to

 

[the button]

How do you promote your own book, though?

Without spending too much? My mate has recently published the, er, *cough* best-selling Anarchist quiz book (Freedom Press -- snap it up now, there's only a few thousand left), and other than sending review copies out, he's given most of the ones he had away as birthday presents. (See? Anarchists can be thrifty too ).

(Other than getting your mate to write a review of it on Amazon, eh, marty? )

 

[marty21]

How do you promote your own book, though?

Without spending too much? My mate has recently published the, er, *cough* best-selling Anarchist quiz book (Freedom Press -- snap it up now, there's only a few thousand left), and other than sending review copies out, he's given most of the ones he had away as birthday presents. (See? Anarchists can be thrifty too ).

(Other than getting your mate to write a review of it on Amazon, eh, marty? )

i'm the wrong person to ask, and i had no idea about that review until i saw it there, it's a bit of a piss take to be fair