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End of the book giveaway…for now
Well, after seven weeks of giving away books, I’ve decided to pull the plug on the giveaway for now. It never took off the way it needed to if it were going to be worthwhile from a marketing point of view and of course there was a slight cost associated with it, plus a time …
In honour of National Poetry Month 2: Within this box of glowing white…
Within this box of glowing white I type, in pixels black, These words. I try to get them right, Yet still I feel they lack A certain something. Yeats I’m not Nor am I Keats or Austen. My forte, I would say, is plot: This scansion is exhausten’. And so, although ’tis poetry This month …
In honour of National Poetry Month 1: I Tweet, therefore I rhyme
I TWEET, THEREFORE I RHYME Being a Twitterpoem cycle in honour of National Poetry Month 2014, with each stanza set off with pretentious Roman numerals, just because it’s more poetic that way By Edward Willett I In characters, 140 sum, I must Tweet out my heart, So that, for National Poetry Month, I will have …
The Daily Toast: a new daily feature (until I run out)
While tidying up my office bookshelves today–four boxes of books going out!–I came across an amusing volume from the collection of my wife’s grandparents (the house has been in the family since 1939). Toasts for the Times in Pictures and Rhymes, by John William Sargent, illustrated by Nella Fontaine Binckley, is exactly what it sounds …
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