Tuesday 18 December 2012
NEW BOOK
I have a new book due out next year: "Rise". It will be published by Cinnamon Press in May 2013. It deals with the fact that so far I have survived ovarian cancer, a cancer that was thought at first to be about to finish me off. But having had a run-in with this horrible disease you can never be confident of your luck continuing; it has a nasty habit of popping back to say hello.
Anyway the book deals truthfully with some of the things I experienced and in my usual way I have tried to make it dispassionate and also bear a little wry humour.
I am thinking about this because it is nearly Christmas and I am so lucky to be celebrating another Christmas during which I hope to see all of my family. Some of the friends I made during that awful time have not been so lucky. To all of you out there who are still, as the Irish say, "above ground", I would like to wish a very happy Christmas and good health in 2013.
Sunday 9 December 2012
LABELS
Puzzled about labels for poets.
NATURE POETS: is there a poet alive who does not love nature, or is blind to it, or who does not care about its current plight?
GAY/QUEER/LESBIAN POETS:
If you are one of these (and I am not) are you happy with the prefix? Do poets like me need to be labelled HETEROSEXUAL POETS?
WOMEN POETS does this mean I should refer to any male poet as a MAN POET?
Aren't we all just POETS?
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