The end of MoPo (month of poetry) is drawing to a close and I do not have my 300 poems – no I don’t so I’ve failed yes? No! I have almost 200 poems – like WOW! Ok so they are kids rhyming poems very formulaic – I find structured and rhyming poetry very very […]
It is doing my head in but I am attempting to do a ‘Little Book’ a day – that is ten poems about a given subject. In this case sports generally :/ And I am not really a sporty person – except I am finding out I am! So for this month: 1) The Little […]
Yes so that challenge I set myself – here are the titles: 1) The Little Book of Sports Poetry 2) The Little Book of Olympic Poetry 3) The Little Book of Running Poetry 4) The Little Book of Football Poetry 5) The Little Book of Swimming Poetry 6) The Little Book of Racket Poetry 7) […]
Well another years over and what a lot I have done though most of it will not bare fruit for a year or two! We got the keys to our new house the day before the Christmas holidays so haven’t even started moving yet! This means there are a few more Little Books of Poetry […]
Here is a video of me reading The Little Book of Festive Poetry at The Brewery Shopping Centre in Cheltenham. I am very grateful to have been asked though the event did over run and it was icy cold – not so good when you’ve got two little ones with you! The little girl sneaking […]
So I had a few issues with the binding – basically sewing a) took too long and b) ment the book was too thick in the middle where the stitching is – it looks lovely but isn’t really practical 🙁 And stapling with a normal stapler wont work as it looks ugly and the amount […]
My little girls school is in need of new books for the school library so I have decided now that I have got all of the images scanned and digitized to turn it into a little book for sale. I haven’t really got time to sort out ISBNs and things like that so what I […]
Well I completed it and then some – I have all the titles I need for my Olympic book of Poetry and am ploughing my way through writing them all! (only at about 40 poems at the moment though). I have also started trying to sort out The Little Book of Festive Poetry. Due to […]
I’ve sort of decided to include hobbies and activities and in writing down the titles realised I had rather alot so I’m thinking the unthinkable – thinking the sort of thought that gets me could a hack. What if I could do say 1000 poems or somewhere near? I worked it out and between now […]
1) The Little Book of Summer Poetry 2) The Little Book of Winter Poetry 3) The Little Book of Spring Time Poetry 4) The Little Book of Autumn Poetry 5) The Little Book of Pet Poetry 6) The Little Book of Seaside Poetry 7) The Little Book of Mountain Poetry 8) The Little Book of […]