As I’ll talk about in more depth later on, a few of you will know I have released three full length poetry books and four split poetry books (and a little chapbook) since I started really publishing books all the way back in 2010.
All of these with one exception have been self published (although one came out briefly on a publisher which I will talk about in a future post and another available as a free download somewhere else), and I have learnt a lot about myself doing things this way perhaps more than if I had gone straight down the route of a major or indeed semi major publisher.
Going forward it has to be said as it stands I don’t know what I am going to do publishing wise, some of my future projects I know for a fact will be self published, others perhaps deserve a different path.
One such project which will follow next will be my first joint book with my always lovely Amanda Steel. Currently untitled (but in my own folders as ‘Thoughts’ which will certainly not be the final title) is perhaps without doubt the most toughest and difficult poetry book I have ever worked to date, This isn’t because of the content of the piece or even the fact it is a jointly wrote piece (which I have done on several projects before some with Amanda) but rather the fact each piece me and Amanda are writing here are 7 words each. Nothing more, nothing less. Amanda started this with a few lines here quite simply and I wrote a response as a half gag really something like a hour later at lunchtime. It wasn’t designed to be developed into a full sequence but it has and we are currently close to halfway writing it with a picture backing each other allowing us both to share it on instragram, facebook, twitter, linkedin etc. All been good, this should be released in July or August time of this year.
We may well write a full length poetry book together in the future of duet poetry (I think we have wrote maybe 12 or 13 pieces together) but after that, a few of you know I have been writing tons of mini mini poems (and when I say mini I mean anything up to 6 to 9 lines) since somewhere late Autumn of last year.
Although I have wrote little poems before or mini ones, but certainly over the past six months I have wrote I guess several hundred of these often on little postal notes or even on the back of train tickets or bus tickets just scribbling a short, sharp little reaction that may have popped into my head in a real burst of energy.
Some of them it had to be said were not so good and disappeared into my archive never to be seen but there are loads of which are really, really good in my mind. A good selection of these (Around 45 or so) I have gathered into a little book and that’ll be out in the Autumn called ‘The streets were all we could see’. Stark, fragile and shocking this little collection are different from anything people will have seen of me before.
Amanda is currently thumbing through the several other hundred of these poems and a second selection of said work which may well be called Postal Note Poetry with the aim for a second collection of said poetry to follow over Winter and into the start of 2020 as a companion book. There are other little books in mind one called Dock Leaves (which is about comical court stories fictional of course) which I am hoping back for a few years for reasons obivious if you know where I am working (it is very good of course still) and more work with my dear friend Nick Armbrister on Europa 4 which I’ll talk about next.
All of these with one exception have been self published (although one came out briefly on a publisher which I will talk about in a future post and another available as a free download somewhere else), and I have learnt a lot about myself doing things this way perhaps more than if I had gone straight down the route of a major or indeed semi major publisher.
Going forward it has to be said as it stands I don’t know what I am going to do publishing wise, some of my future projects I know for a fact will be self published, others perhaps deserve a different path.
One such project which will follow next will be my first joint book with my always lovely Amanda Steel. Currently untitled (but in my own folders as ‘Thoughts’ which will certainly not be the final title) is perhaps without doubt the most toughest and difficult poetry book I have ever worked to date, This isn’t because of the content of the piece or even the fact it is a jointly wrote piece (which I have done on several projects before some with Amanda) but rather the fact each piece me and Amanda are writing here are 7 words each. Nothing more, nothing less. Amanda started this with a few lines here quite simply and I wrote a response as a half gag really something like a hour later at lunchtime. It wasn’t designed to be developed into a full sequence but it has and we are currently close to halfway writing it with a picture backing each other allowing us both to share it on instragram, facebook, twitter, linkedin etc. All been good, this should be released in July or August time of this year.
We may well write a full length poetry book together in the future of duet poetry (I think we have wrote maybe 12 or 13 pieces together) but after that, a few of you know I have been writing tons of mini mini poems (and when I say mini I mean anything up to 6 to 9 lines) since somewhere late Autumn of last year.
Although I have wrote little poems before or mini ones, but certainly over the past six months I have wrote I guess several hundred of these often on little postal notes or even on the back of train tickets or bus tickets just scribbling a short, sharp little reaction that may have popped into my head in a real burst of energy.
Some of them it had to be said were not so good and disappeared into my archive never to be seen but there are loads of which are really, really good in my mind. A good selection of these (Around 45 or so) I have gathered into a little book and that’ll be out in the Autumn called ‘The streets were all we could see’. Stark, fragile and shocking this little collection are different from anything people will have seen of me before.
Amanda is currently thumbing through the several other hundred of these poems and a second selection of said work which may well be called Postal Note Poetry with the aim for a second collection of said poetry to follow over Winter and into the start of 2020 as a companion book. There are other little books in mind one called Dock Leaves (which is about comical court stories fictional of course) which I am hoping back for a few years for reasons obivious if you know where I am working (it is very good of course still) and more work with my dear friend Nick Armbrister on Europa 4 which I’ll talk about next.
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