Ok, I've started having Launch Stress Dreams. I'm legendary for this sort of thing – it's like my brain works through every possible permutation of what can, may, will, almost certainly won't, should and/or is incredibly-unlikely-unless-we-break-through-into-another-space/time-continuum happen. Seriously. I think I can discard the “room turning into a disco danceoff session, with John Travolta naked” …
a box of books
One more little milestone to tick off – my box of official author's copies arrived today! Now it's all beginning to feel really real. The next tick will come when I see a copy in a bookshop somewhere … Ten days to go until the launch. If you plan to come but haven't yet said so, …
Bookmooch, book-guilt and voracious reading
Yesterday my publisher sent me the list of where copies of The Summer King are being sent for review. Scary stuff! We had quite a long email conversation a couple of months ago about where it would be worth sending to. It was a depressing conversation – the number of places that routinely run poetry …
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Arrival
I've always wondered what this would feel like. I went out to collect the mail, and found a small package in the mailbox – my book, back from the printers! My real, actual, physical, touchable, super-shiny BOOK! (Colour balance in the photo is a bit off – glossy cover and all that. But still!) I …
Three weeks (and one day) to go …
At the moment I'm running around trying to get things finalised for the launch of The Summer King. Lots and lots of promo things. I've just had a group of poems from the collection selected to appear on an Italian poetry site, Fiera Lingue, run by Anny Ballardini. It's well worth a look – poets from …
A Dark Feathered Art 