Headline slot at Write Out Loud Sale, 17 March 2020

Podcast update to follow next few days, but it has just been confirmed that myself and Amanda Steel (the always lovely Amanda Steel) have been approached to do a joint headline slot for Write Out Loud Sale's next evening on Tuesday 17 March. (See below).

I believe it's £3 on the door and there is limited open mic too.

Guest Post from Belle Kenyon - James F Miller - Ghost in the Reflection - Letters to Erin

Latest blog is a guest blog from Belle Kenyon featuring on a very interesting book by a James F Miller.

James F Miller:

Ghost in the Reflection: Letters to Erin

Released: February 15^th, 2020

Available from Amazon, Book Patch and signed from Author direct

Celebrating publication day, James F. Miller talks about his work:

I am a product of a broken home, an on-and-off again runaway delinquent child, a recovered addict, a hopeless romantic, a road-exhausted gypsy, a loved father, a hated free soul and a beloved friend… depending upon who is asked!

I loved the experience of publishing my first poetry collection, A Footnote for Tomorrow and I hope that people would describe my voice as a writer as unique to me – hopefully delightfully wild and unpredictable! I'm outspoken in opinions and beliefs, yet shy. I like to provoke discussions

My first book, A Footnote for Tomorrow, was written about my struggles with getting clean and off hard drugs and alcohol. It was written over a twenty-year span about the highlights, the low spots and everything that falls in between from my twenties into my mid-thirties, from college to the road, to the music scene, to sober then relapse and repeat.

This second book, Ghost in the Reflection: Letters to Erin began originally as two smaller collections that eventually merged into just the one. The first half, Ghost in the Reflection is a collection of poetry, mostly in the 3rd person narrative, which describes the decline of society, morality and values.

Meanwhile, the second half, Letters to Erin, is a mostly first-person narrative that displays this decline of morality within a traditional relationship. It examines the hurt, the struggle, the deceit, betrayal and the disappointments.

On unusual writing habits…

I write anywhere and everywhere, whenever the urge hits me. If I can't get to my notepad, I will text myself the words as I hear them reciting in my head. I prefer to write in a quiet secluded country setting, after meditation and mental elevation, but the craft doesn't care what you want, it wants to be written when it wants to be written however, wherever and whenever it decides!

Influences:

Jack Kerouac's On the Road, which in turn turned me onto all the beatnik writers. Howl by Ginsberg is a poetic masterpiece, so ahead of its time that one not knowing this, could still find endless relevance in its passages. Bukowski, Ferlinghetti and e. e. cummings fill in the list of my top influences.

Link to buy for £7.74 in the UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ghost-Reflection-Letters-Erin-James-Miller/dp/1733831037

US link $9.99: https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Reflection-Letters-Erin-James-Miller/dp/1733831037

New Interviews

Hi Guys;

Sorry for the quietness. I have been very busy with Podcast related material over the past few weeks.

Next week I'll do a full blog listing what I have been up to, but in the meantime I have done two interviews regarding my work (one with the always lovely Amanda Steel)

That Podcast can be heard here

Also I have done a interview with Wombwell Rainbow and that can be read here