February 1st - NEW BOOK LAUNCHED

Yes it is true, my latest collection of poetry, my SEVENTH, is released TODAY! You can find details of it on the NEWS page, but I just want to record it here.

I'm so happy that it has made it to print, that the hard work of 2018 has been worth it, and that I am finally 'free' of it! 

Don't get me wrong - I love the writing, the inspiration that strikes at odd times, the way that a simple look at something, or an odd phrase that will stick with me; will create the 'Goldilocks' event. A moment when the conditions are right for me to write a poem. It's a glorious time, a few moments where I slip from the everyday world that a human being normally inhabits and becomes something different. Something - other.

For the time it takes me to create the poem, to make that which I see inside me finally outside and free, it is a wonderful event, experience, emotion.

But once the initial creativity has passed, there is the start of the 'work' to turn it into something that I can then turn into a book suitable to purchase (oh if only someone would!).

The creative work that goes into making the individual poems into a book full of them is something I do enjoy, really. But it is much harder than writing them in the first place!

Anyway, 'Voices in the Wild' is now 'born' and out in the world in print, the digital version should be ready in March and I'm already working on my newest collection of poems - 'Distant Echoes'

Thanks for visiting my site, my blog and taking the time to read this short missive. If you choose to buy a book then I hope you'll enjoy the contents and will feel it money well spent!

Again, thanks for reading, stay safe and every blessing.

Alan

[FURTHER EDIT:
Funnily enough, I briefly met a Freelance Marketing Consultant at the 'Eventim Apollo' when out with Ed on Friday (1st Feb) evening for my 2018 Christmas present - attending the only 'Death Cab for Cutie' gig in London this year.
I didn't get any tips from that delightful Lady; but it did get me thinking about what I should start to do with all these books I write and get printed.
​Now I wonder if there are any Marketing Courses out there for someone like me...]