A New Poetry Book

It's been months since I blogged: seven months, to be exact. I can't believe how fast the years go by! I've been busy with other projects: designing, editing, and publishing a major non-fiction book for a client, completing art commissions, and working on my latest literary offering - a new book of poems.

Over the months, I been compiling my haiku and free verse, working steadily and adding new offerings inspired by my daily walks. Having the privilege of living in a wildlife reserve which gives onto the Pacific Ocean, I find an abundance of inspiration, often wandering along the beach or bushland trails, muttering into my phone. I enjoy the discipline of seventeen syllables and can occasionally be seen plotting the 5/7/5 and counting them on my fingers.

Illustrating the haiku seemed to be a good way of incorporating some of my photography, and I found that, in recent times, visual haiku has become a phenomenon. I have used a formal structure for the images which suits the discipled format of the verses.

I have also discovered the pleasures of haibun, which typically features a prose section, often descriptive or narrative, followed by a haiku that deepens the prose's meaning, since it allows me to describe the inspiration behind the haiku.

Then comes the free verse. There are two sections: Poems of Nature, and Poems of Reflection, and they range from short verses to multi-page ramblings.

The book is now available on Amazon, world-wide, and you can find it on this link.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0645233552

I'm currently contemplating making it available as an e-book. What do you think?