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Bristol , United Kingdom
Poet and poetry facilitator. Co-founder of the Leaping Word Poetry Consultancy, which provides advice for poets on writing, editing and publishing, as well as qualified counselling support for those exploring personal issues in their work - https://theleapingword.com. My sixth poetry collection, Love the Albatross, is now available from Indigo Dreams or directly from me.

Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Cover Story

I intended to post these pictures a couple at a time in a tantalising sort of way, but it's so interesting tracing their development by seeing them all together that I've changed my mind.  This is a record of how the cover for my putative second poetry collection, provisionally titled Map Reading For Beginners, came into being, courtesy of the talent of Dru Marland.  






Look at the configuration of wild garlic flowers ...



The lettering isn't definite yet; the poems aren't definite yet; even publication isn't definite yet, but one thing's sure, there's a lot to live up to ... 



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