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- Are you an Author, Reader, Publisher, Editor, Agent or Other?
- Author and Reader of Poetry
- Do You Have A Website?
- www.bpswords.co.uk
- About Me:
- I live with my wife and son in a beautiful village in rural Suffolk, England.
My first collection of poetry, The Jealousies, was published by Bewrite Books in October 2008. Here are some little blurbs -
"Fresh and vigorous... a new voice in the canon of UK writers." -
David McLean, author of Cadaver's Dance
"Brilliant, original, evocative, vivid... wonderfully sinister and often very beautiful" - Jane Darwin
"A master of metaphors" - Carillon Magazine
"Impossible to put down. I read it in one sitting" - Greg Cox, The Cannon's Mouth
- Do you have a blog site?
- http://bpstainton.wordpress.com/
- Favorite Books:
- A Season in Hell - Arthur Rimbaud
Ariel - Sylvia Plath
Crow - Ted Hughes
77 Dream Songs - John Berryman
- Favorite Bookstores on land or cyberspace
- Foyles, London
Amazon
Kestral Books
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Hoof Prints in February
His voice reels around the old gymnasium -
“Evil is not one entity, or being, but every being.”
My mentor rallies on behalf of Evil.
He treats it like a well-worn shoe
or unknowingly pungent family member.
We, Francesca and I, always drink heavily
in his company.… Continue
Posted on January 13, 2009 at 4:27am — 2 Comments
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One More Time
I got the proof for Killer Career, and wouldn't you know it, I just had to find stuff that I wanted to fix. It'll cost me a bit more, but it's worth it not to be bugged about stuff I know is wrong. Okay, it's just little stuff, but little stuff sometimes means a lot.
So, a little more delay, a little more money, but hopefully all will end well. That's what matters.
It's no fun being a picky person. (G)
Check Out Last Chance
Hi Gang,If you wish, please hop over to http://makeminemystery.blogspot.com and read about my last chance.
Thanks,
Morgan
Book Signing Today at Frontier Days Marketplace
If any of you are near Arlington Heights, please stop by and say hi. I'll be autographing Two Wrongs and Girl of My Dreams Saturday and Sunday from 10-6 at Recreation Park in the Frontier Days Marketplace in Booth 124 at Frontier Days.I'm also handing out invitations for my book launch party for Killer Career for
August 16, 1-4pm. at the Arlington Heights Historical Museum, 110 W. Fremont,
Arlington Heights, IL. (You don't need an official invitation to come. It's
just good for a reminder to stick on your refrigerator or somewhere)
Other signing at the booth are romantic suspense author, Margot Justes, YA author, June Sproat and contemporary Western romance author, Debra St. John.
As most of you already know, Two Wrongs is a romantic suspense, Girl of My Dreams is a romantic comedy and the upcoming release, Killer Career is a romantic suspense.
Hope to see some of you over there.
Morgan Mandel
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Best regards,
Jim
Did a little more browsing on the poetry page. It lists another Ogden Nash poem, Eletelephony. However, it lists Laura E. Richards as the author. I'm sure the author is Nash, because I have read a Nash collection with that poem in it.
I'm a stickler for things like copyright, as I hope you are, too. I'm going to investigate a bit, contact the page author. Nothing heavy-handed, but I hope the page will at least cite the proper author.
Also, I'm not sure that it's quite the same poem. I'll try to find my Nash book and compare, because it doesn't seem quite the same. In any case, it's clearly plagiarized.
Best regards,
Jim
Anyway, this is priceless. Also, the page has Wynken, Blinken and Nod, which is another one from my youth.
I think now that both of these must have been in a single collection of assorted works, and not in a book from a single author.
The lyrical and whimsical character of the poem, though, does evoke Nash, at least for me.
Since you're unfamiliar with him, I'll quote -- OK, I'll likely misquote! -- from two that I think I can recall:
The Lama (or, The Llama)
One-l lama, he's a priest
Two-l lama, he's a beast
But I will bet a silk pajama
There isn't any three-l lllama
(Attention is then called to the type of conflagration known as a three alarmer.)
The shortest one I remember:
Parsley
Parsley
is gharsley
He wrote numerous poems about various animals, none of which come to mind at the moment. All are similarly whimsical, but he usually has a touch of insight. I like them because they make me laugh.
Best regards, and many thanks for retrieving Antonio!
Jim
I might as well ask you this, as you're more apt to know the answer than anyone else I know: Do you know a poem titled Antonio, Antonio? I think it might be by Bennett Cerf. It's another one from my youth, and I use a reference from it (at least I think that's the reference) for my dog, Miss Luci Mae Lu Malonio. Anyway, if you know the proper reference, I'd be grateful for it.
Best regards, and I will try to get your book soon.
Jim
I really appreciate you taking the time to download FTW. It's hardly "light" reading (though I think poetry is equally deep, but with a lot fewer words!). Maybe I don't say it (or don't say it properly) in FTW, but I think I'm pretty ignorant, too. The irony is that I can at least pass for well-educated, but I think my knowledge is just higher relative to a pitifully low standard. I guess that's a too subtle point that I've tried to make, that we all need to know a lot more in order to have an intelligent debate/discussion. I don't think that means we should cede the debate to the politicians and their pundits, because they don't seem too knowledgeable, either. (At least, they don't make arguments on that basis.)
Anyway, cheers, and please don't let any perception or illusion of expertise on my part deter you from commenting. I'm sincere when I say that I would welcome even someone who wants to say I'm an idiot for my views on the wars -- as long as s/he would tell me *why* I'm an idiot!
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