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- 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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MORGAN'S OWN BLOGSPOT
Are you ready?
Anyway, I hope to get the house into decent shape before Christmas, when I do my annual meal for the family. There's also that Christmas list to get together. Time is ticking away.
What about you? Are you ready for Christmas? Or do you celebrate another Holiday? If so, are you ready?
Please Welcome Mary Cunningham, Cynthia's Attic Author
One of the main reasons for writing "Cynthia's Attic" came from my failure - failure to appreciate my ancestors. Our family stories are probably no more or less interesting than most, and I went out of my way to avoid remembering most of them or asking questions about my grandparents lives.
Or did I try to find out just which relative "supposedly" sold a city block on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles for $20,000? Guaranteed, I would not be sitting here writing a blog had that particular relative held on to the property.
Then there's the story, "Cynthia's Attic: Curse of the Bayou," of my great-great grandfather, Augustus Boilliat who disappeared in 1860 while taking a load of produce down the Mississippi River to New Orleans? Oh, sure I've read different accounts about what happened to him, but lost forever are the stories his grandson (my grandfather) could've told me about facts he'd heard from my great-great grandmother, Marie Julia, about her husband's disappearance.
I remember a few accounts told by my dad about his adventures as a teenage cave guide at one of the largest caves in the Southern Indiana area, Wyandotte, but I only have to guess at some of the adventures he must've had.
The idea for Cynthia's Attic: The Magician's Castle came from detailed genealogy research done by my cousin, Betty. Long before the Internet, she traveled to Switzerland to search for documents that would tie our great-grandmother, Harriet Kistler, to Peter Kistler the First, President of the Republic of Bern, 1470-1480. I've tried to honor the Kistler family in the fourth adventure in Cynthia's Attic.
Thanks, Morgan, for having me as a guest!
Mary Cunningham
She is also co-writer of the humor-filled, women's lifestyle book, "Women Only Over Fifty (WOOF)," along with published stories, "Ghost Light" and "Christmas Daisy," A Cynthia's Attic short story.
To celebrate the release of "The Magician's Castle," (Quake/Echelon Press, DEC 1, 2009), a winner will be chosen on each blog stop to receive a copy of the "Cynthia's Attic" short story, "Christmas With Daisy!" So, be sure to make a comment!
Mary Cunningham Books
http://www.marycunninghambooks.com/
Cynthia's Attic Blog
http://www.cynthiasattic.blogspot.com/
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Mary-Cunningham/e/B002BLNEK4/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
Kindle
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?_encoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=digital-text&field-author=Mary%20Cunningham
Fictionwise
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/a20811/Mary-Cunningham/?
Quake/Echelon Press
http://www.echelonpress.com/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=23&zenid=4ac57b7ae19fa071cab3b4295df7baf3
Please leave a comment to welcome Mary.
Check out the Mystery of the Missing Checks
Monday, I'm over at my group blog, http://makeminemystery.blogspot.com/, where I'm blogging about the mystery of the missing checks. Come on over and find out what it's all about.Thanks,
Morgan Mandel
Can We Talk?
I'm firming up some dates for speaking engagements in 2010. One's tentatively set for March 28, at 1:30 at the Niles Public Library, another probably in mid May at the Schaumburg Township District Library.Also, coming up is a radio interview at WJJQ again on May 7, at 9:35 a.m. before my booksigning May 8 at Cover to Cover Books in Tomahawk, WI.
I've heard that some people are more afraid of public speaking than of dying. Surprisingly, I find it easier each time I do it. As long as I have my cheat sheet with me to glance down at once in a while for security and I like what I'm talking about, I'm okay.
What about you? Do you like to talk or would you rather not?
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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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