story and verse: Small Stones (12)

Saturday, 12 January 2013

Every wrinkle showed,

lines of life there on the computer screen.

Can that really be me?

When did I get so old?

Airbrush! Airbrush!

(On getting a new Passport photo taken!)

Book List (Useful!)

How (Not) to Get your poetry Published - Helena Nelson
52 Ways of Looking at a Poem - Ruth Padel
A Companion to the Folklore, Myths & Customs of Britain - Marc Alexander
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Bewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable ISBN 0-304-35873-8
An A-Z of almost Everything
Descriptionary (A Thematic Dictionary) ISBN 0-8160-4106-7
Writing Poetry by W.N. Herbert (Routledge) ISBN 978-0-415-46154-2
Modern Women Poets (edited by Deryn Rees-Jones) ISBN 1-85224-678-2 Bloodaxe Books
The Making of a Poem (Anthology of Poetic Form) ISBN 0-393-04916-7
Is there a book in you? by Alison Baverstock ISBN 0-7136-7932-8
The Poet's Craft (Sandy Brownjohn) ISBN 0 340 80292 8

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