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There was a young lady called Heather

There was a young lady called Heather,
Who was most terribly clever.
She wrote poetry that no one could understand
And was lauded throughout the land,
By critics, who thought her most terribly clever!

A review of “My Old Clock I Wind and Other Poems”

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Many thanks to Victoria Zigler for her review of my recently released collection of poetry, “My Old Clock I Wind and Other Poems”. To read the review please visit http://ziglernews.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/poetry-book-my-old-clock-i-wind-and.html.

To purchase the book (in print or ebook formats) please visit the publisher’s website http://moyhill.com/clock/.

“My Old Clock I Wind” is also available (ebook only) in the Amazon Kindle store and can be found here https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0735JBVB...

Nostalgia and the Poet – Kevin Morris

Many thanks to Annette for hosting me on her excellent site.

Annette Rochelle Aben

Nostalgia (a yearning for a golden, bygone age) is present, to a greater or lesser degree in all of us. This hankering for the past runs through much poetry and is beautifully expressed by A. E Housman in his “A Shropshire Lad”:

“INTO my heart an air that kills

From yon far country blows:

What are those blue remembered hills,

What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,

I see it shinin...

Tree

Oh tree at the edge of the park,
Oh warm imperfection of bark,
You where here ‘Ere I came,
And when I am gone, you shall remain.

My Old Clock I Wind, By Kevin Morris is now available for purchase

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I am delighted to announce that my collection of poetry, “My Old Clock I Wind and Other Poems” is now available, in both print and ebook formats from Moyhill Publishing.

To read a selection of reviews or to purchase “My Old Clock” please go to http://moyhill.com/clock/.

The book will soon be available on Amazon and I will post a link here once this is the case.

Kevin

The Tunnel

‘Tis a place
Where we face
The end
And the beginning
In love
Or sinning

Authors for Grenfell Tower

A very good cause.

jessicanorrie

I’ve never liked tower blocks. I had a friend who lived on the 13th floor of what used to be called a “hard to let” block in east London. She loved the view from her balcony, and kept flowerpots tethered in five unblowoffable ways to the railings, but even stepping on to it made me feel weak at the knees. Perhaps my knees were already weak when I arrived, because I always used to walk up the stairs. The lift was creaky and claustrophobic. Supposing it got stuc...

The Society of Classical Poets (website)

Rhyme

The Society of Classical Poets is a wonderful site that I recommend to everyone who loves rhyming poetry.

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The River Rose

The river rose
But stopped halfway.
His banks will flood
Another day.

Smorgasbord Book Promotion – Air your Reviews – Shehanne Moore and Kevin Morris

Many thanks to Sally Cronin for including a review of my collection of poetry, “My Old Clock I Wind and Other Poems”.

Smorgasbord - Variety is the spice of life

Welcome to the second of this week’s review posts and this week Paul Andruss wrote a fantastic review for The Writer and the Rake by Shehanne Moore on his website.

About the book

He saw her coming. If he’d known her effect he’d have walked away.

When it comes to doing it all, ‘wild child’ writer Brittany Carter ticks every box. Havi...