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- Are you an Author, Reader, Publisher, Editor, Agent or Other?
- Author and Reader of Poetry
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- 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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I added a few slides of my books to my blogspot. I'm not sure yet if they should stay on or not.Do you have more trouble loading my blogspot with the slides up? Do you like them or are they too distracting?
A Christmas Tree Already
On the way home from work yesterday, I passed a house that already had a lighted and decorated Christmas tree up and showing by the window.Is it not too soon for that? In my mind, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas Season starts. That's when it's fair game to put up a tree and decorations and start shopping. The way things are going this year, I'll be lucky if I get organized enough to decorate a few days before Christmas.
With our dog, Rascal, who lives up to her name, we'll probably go with a fiber optic small tree on top of an end table. One of these days I may pull put the larger tree from the box in the basement and set it up, but not until our doggy is a little more sedate. I don't feel like chasing her to get ornaments out of her mouth. I will be putting up knick knacks, lights inside and decorations on the walls, so it will still look Christmasy. No lights outside because for some reason we have no outlets outside.
While we're on the subject of Christmas trees and such, be sure to add holidays in your books. You can mention decorations and lights or Easter eggs and baskets, or even mattress sales in your descriptions to ground the reader as to the season.
Now, back to that tree I saw. What about you? When do you decorate for Christmas? What do you put up?
Winners and Losers at the CMAs and Life
I love country music and almost every country performer. While watching the CMAs, I enjoyed seeing the winners accept their awards. On the other hand, it was hard for me to see the losers do their best to appear gracious and for the most part succeeding.For every winner, there's a loser. In life and in books, it's the same way. How people react to their good and bad fortune shows what their characters are made of. You don't have to tell a reader who the good guy or bad guy is. Let their actions speak for themselves. The readers are smart enough to figure it out.
PS Can't finish this blog without saying - You Rock, Taylor Swift! You are one smart, talented teenager! Congrats on all your awards, especially, Entertainer of the Year!!!
CMA Awards Tonight and Twitter
One of my favorite shows is on tonight - the CMA Awards. If you're a country music fan, you're probably like me and will be glued to the TV 8pm EST, or in my case 7pm, in the flatlands of Illinois.Almost all my favorite performers will be there, except I hear that Rascal Flatts can't make it.
I'll be on Twitter during the show also. That's part of the fun of it - discussing and dissecting outfits, performers, songs and even commercials, kind of like I'm at a giant party with people who all go for the same thing and want to share.
What about you? What kind of music do you like? Do you tweet during a favorite show or event?
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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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