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Bordeaux Bay by Guernsey-based artist Tony Taylor

Wednesday 3 May 2017

THE WORLD'S MY ORMER*

Much can happen in a matter of days and a great deal more if you extend the time frame by a few weeks.
In early April, a tentative chat with Steve Foote, founder of Blue Ormer Publishing, led to my gathering together forty poems written over the past couple of years, editing them, arranging them in suitable order and writing short narratives about each selected poem.
All this, in turn, precipitated a flurry of activity from Blue Ormer Publishing that left me breathless but the end result, less than a month later, is the publication of a rather beautiful book of poetry, Stone Witness. 

It’s described by the publishers as "a collection that deals with themes of love and death, old and new gods, nostalgia for a vanished age and the challenge of life in the 21st Century".

Central to the collection is the poem, Stone Witness (La Gran'mere du Chimquiere) which deals with the relationship between Guernsey's iconic granite figure and the islanders themselves. 
 

The book also contains what I consider to be some of the best poems I’ve written and it’s encouraging to know that, whilst everything else diminishes with age, one’s writing doesn’t.
 


You can find out all about it at BLUE ORMER PUBLISHING.
 


* An abalone-type shell-fish delicacy much appreciated by Channel Islanders.

2 comments:

  1. I am certainly looking forward to the release of your new poetry book, "Stone Witness".

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  2. Richard Fleming4 May 2017 at 20:54

    Thanks Julian. Blue Ormer Publishers have been hugely supportive and enthusiastic about the new collection. Do give them a plug at every opportunity. R.

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