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Fill me with words to paint a picture, serene, to honour such a perfection Though my brushes lay at rest, my fingers numb, are ever eager As I come to reflect upon a morning graced by the end of May Naked is my virgin soul, though dressed by feathered wings of day. Oh me, oh my, where be the hidden world of this day? That I find myselfRead more…
Authors/self-publishers of poetry who have created a poetry collection manuscript and are now at the editing stage will gain the most from reading: The Ins and Outs of Editing a Poetry Collection. Nothing screams amateurish more than a poorly edited book—especially a poorly edited poetry collection where every word, comma, and full stop matters. Editing a poetry collection successfully, therefore, requires time, patience, attention to detail, repetition, dedication—and money. ThereRead more…
Do you have poems you’ve written in a notebook or on loose paper, in a drawer or box? Or typed and saved on a computer. Perhaps, from years ago, or more recently. Lately, you’ve been thinking about how you’d like to organise your poems into a collection for publication. Yes, your very own poetry book. But where to start? Organising a poetry collection is a big task but I’ll showRead more…
My goodness, what can 25 years do for a poetry collection? Quite a lot. Should the sky not fall in, come September 2020, my book of poems When Eve Walked shall be released as print and ebook in all good online bookstores. A poetry collection is like a bottle of wine that develops depth with time. Ever evolving. Well, it’s almost time to share the poetic vino, my friends! Read more…
About the poet The poems Being, Between, and Father were written by Duncan Reddington (Swami Devam Prabodhi) from Cambridge, UK. In his words: The event of real significance (in my life) was picking up the Darshan Diary of the mystic Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in the library at Leyton, East London, in 1982. Reading, I found the Nirvana Meditation Centre off Edgware Road, also in London, and I walked into theRead more…