I was thrilled to get the news: Indigo Dream Publishing will publish my second poetry collection in early Autumn 2019. IDP are well-established, have won awards, and they publish about two-three poetry books a month. They’re organised and business-like: I’ve already signed the contract and had the template, with a production timetable.
When my debut collection got accepted in Spring 2016, I was prepared for a dip, or even worse: a few poet friends had told me they couldn’t write for six months. But I managed to keep writing, sending work out and it was summer…
This time I’ve plummeted: we’re heading for Winter; a lot of poems have been accepted elsewhere, and another 40+ have now been spoken for. When I get anxious, I try to deal with it by tidying up, clearing and de-cluttering. That was the worst thing I could have done! I deleted a lot of old so-so poems from my pc; then put dozens more so-so poems in a single file. I felt bereft and at a loss.
A good friend, a qualified proof reader, will go through the manuscript. I’ve checked, getting confused about punctuation: a comma, a colon, a semi-colon?? I’ve put them in and taken them out. Time to email it to my friend!
During the clearing and sorting, I came across a photo album. Here is a picture of one of the dogs in a poem that’ll be in the new book.
Dogs
I would love to buy a recording
of the dogs we had, but not for long.
The grey poodle called Pablo
with a disease of the stomach.
The two grown hunting dogs
that howled through the nights
of a week, tore a door to shreds,
were returned to the owner.
Our red Irish setter Alexander,
re-homed when my father
gave up the battle and our whole
family moved into that small flat.
Lieve Fokkien Toevallig had ik het laatst nog met Theo over Sander en nu ik de foto van Pablo zie, denk oh dat was ook een schatje. LiefsAncilla
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