R. Tirrell Leonard Jr.'s Blog

A green an ancient light

I loved this book, It is one of those Ive been reading a page here or there for years, till a few days ago I decided to finish reading it. The imagery is lush and dreamy, and the characters are realistic including Mr. Girandole, and R. the forign enemy fighter piolet, the narrator saves with his Grandmother and Girandole, who is a faun. This is a fantastic coming of age book, with a riddle at it's heart. Perhaps the best book I've read this year...

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2962440337

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In Season's Dream---Reviewed by The Columbia Review

I just read a beautiful review of my poetry book, In Season's Dream.

                                   "A rich collection of poems with a powerful theme, deep insight, and rich
                                    imagery. Excellent!" The Columbia Review. 

I encourage everyone to read the entire review. It is fairly written, and touches upon some interesting areas of my writing. Hope you get a chance to get a copy and flip through it. It will be at the Book Expo America show in New York at the end of May, with the Foreword booth.
But follow this link and read the review http://www.thecolumbiareview.com/seasons-dream-r-tirrell-leonard-jr-2015/

Ploughshares Spring edition is out

If you subscribe to Ploughshares or buy it from your bookstore or borrow it from a library, the spring 2015 edition is out and in the back with the advertisements, is an ad for "In The Murmuring Trees."

   This ad was designed by Alexandra Artiano, and seeing the beautiful job she'd done with it was the main reason I'd hired her for "In Season's Dream," when I ran into a problem with the publisher over the proposed cover. I can not recommend her enough, she does beautiful work.

On Edgar

Here is a review by R.: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Over a few hours from five at night till half past one in the morning,  I read Edgar Allan Poe,  the fever called living. It chronicles his chaotic life and good fortune.  His deep love of his wife Virginia clemm to his falling apart at her demise. A heartrending journey, a climb out of his boozy destruction to sobriety and engagement.  And the weird circumstances of his bizarre death. As well the odd events that occurred after his death, and reunion of the family post mortem. All in all any Poe fan should read this book.

Thirty second spot

In Season's Dream: https://youtu.be/wYkHlU5r0Vo   I created a cool video trailer for my new book with a free app.

Morning Cuppa

Enjoying a morning cup of coffee before I run out the door to race to my job. I am always getting lost in thought and then realize too late that I am going to be late.
But the sun  is up, and I must run. I'll chat a bit more in the evening. Eventually I will get the hang of all of this, I just must keep at it.

Launched and away

My new collection of poetry
, "In Season's Dream " is available online http://bookstore.xlibris.com/Products/SKU-001011568/In-Seasons-Dream.aspx

It is also available at amazon, easy to find by searching for R Tirrell Leonard Jr. 

It will soon be available to order at your favorite bookstore, or online book seller. If you are on good reads please rate the book.

Thank you.

In Season's Dream, reviewing the journey

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25148583-in-season-s-dreamIn Season's Dream

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6648498.R_Tirrell_Leonard_Jr_R. Tirrell Leonard Jr.

   I am very happy with how this book came out, After I had all the pages together I hired an editor to help me work this into a highly polished book. I heeded advice I got for In The Murmuring Trees, and added breaks in the book for contemplation. I broke the book into four seasons, and each section is Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.

     The poems of each season all relate to the season, and Tanya Gold did a wonderful job helping me to realize deeper threads of each piece, and reach in and give the reader something to chew on.

     My favorite poems are the longer Narrative ones, the best of which is "Fragment" which is the poem that closes the book.   Each poem quietly builds on feeling, some with humor some with quiet bits of realism, all with intense imagery.

   When I did finish this book finally, I was very happy with it. All in all, I am proud of how Season's came out. The settings of the poetry are Woburn, Ma. Salem, Ma and some of the coastlines and woods of New England.

  Next I hired Xlibris to publish this collection as a paperback, and I also hired Alexandra Artiano, to create the cover design for In Season's Dream. It has been a long journey, three years in the making, The rough draft was almost 100 pages, and I the final product is 80. It took a full year to write, a full year to edit and a few months to bring it out and publish.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/33422621-r-jr  all my reviews

A quick note

In Season's Dream, my new poetry collection is off to the printer's. It should be ready by April. It will be available at all the usual online retailers, and at the book rack in the lobby of The Hawthorne Hotel in Salem Ma.
   
       It will be a paperback release this time through and be priced at $15.99 for the paperback, and $3.99 for the kindle, nook and e-book versions. I will post again when it goes live. I am planning to enter it in a few contests this year as well, and will keep you posted on how it did in each contest.

But just wanted to let you know that soon you will be able to procure a copy for yourself. stay tuned for the book launch.