A new paperback, a new poetry collection

The third collection of my poetry is available on Amazon, called Nightmare and other poetry.

However for readers of this blog a free download is available from SCRIBD, under a different cover but with identical content. This may not always be free so don't delay, get your copy now. That's me trying to see you a free copy, LOL. But seriously I posted an embedded copy of this book in my a little while ago in a post on this blog, you can of course read it from here. It has been updated using the latest formatted copy which I used for publishing via Createspace so both agree - within a few typos caused by the conversion process.

Actually, the software that Scribd use to convert MS Word files does not do the job as well as that of Createspace (an Amazon company) so there are a few typos which I am going to have to clean up. In the near future but I hope that this does not spoil your enjoyment of the poems.

I have been busy publishing my three completed volumes of poetry plus an art related book. This has now been completed and so I am now catching up with some art tutorials. All this has taken a toll of the writing of new poetry, and I have written no new poetry since the 21st March this year, which can be found on this blog.

I hope by the end of the month I will be writing poetry again. Please keep an eye out for these published first on this blog.

More News on Published Poetry

I do seem to be spending a lot of time at the moment editing and formatting my short poetry collections for publication on Amazon in paperback format. This of course is affecting the amount of time I have for new, original poetry. But I hope this process will be completed soon (after all I don't have that many books in hand) and that I will be able to get back to writing new material.

This post is to release the news that I now have a second poetry book available on Amazon. It is actually the first in the series but for practical purposes I published the second volume first, if that makes sense.

This new collection is based on older poems which I have edited and converted from song lyrics originally written in the sixties and seventies. I am surprised that the range of topics is as wide as it is considering their origin. That is not to knock the poems but simply to state that the range of themes is wider than the usual stuff of pop-songs.

• Paperback: 42 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (29 April 2014)
• ISBN-10: 1499294905
• ISBN-13: 978-1499294903

 You can see this book on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk or alternatively I shall let you into a little secret - keep it to yourself - for a while it can be found on Scribd for free download. Same book different cover.

The table of contents, in four sections, is as follows.

POEMS ON ENDINGS AND LOST LOVES 
SILENT LADY
SING ME A SIMPLE SONG
REFLECTIONS FROM THE PAST
YOU WERE HERE ONLY YESTERDAY
MISTER WILLOW
MEMORIES

POEMS ON ATTITUDES TO LIFE 
THE WICKED MAGICIAN   
PUT DOWN YOUR GUN   
IS THE DAY TOO LONG?   
THE WATERFALL   
PATTERNS ON MY MIND  
YOU'RE IN A RUT BOY 

A POEM
THE WIND

POEMS FOR CHILDREN   
IF ALL MY FRIENDS COULD TALK
YOUR FURRY OLD FRIENDS

 I have one more collection of poetry complete and ready for publication. I shall include details next time.