Change of Scene/Bits and Bobs

The Prufrocks Poets (L to R Mary, Nuala, Barbara, Jaki, Liz)


Madra (Irish for dog!)


Things are hotting up here for The Maximus Miracle Tour beginning at the end of October. I have been out of touch with everything book-ish due to my flu and a sort of over-saturation of The Wrong Miracle during my 6 weeks in Ireland - for the last 2 weeks I have not even looked sideways at anything wrong miracle-ish...I needed that break - one can definitely get fed up with one´s own poetry. Also it´s kind of like a 'done and dusted' feel and I am craving to move on....but for sure I will give The Wrong Miracle all the breaks it needs (Canary launch in the pipeline, visiting a book club, local library reading) but am paving the way for other things, poetry and non-poetry, just now.

In order to get better job security and salary (left that behind in Ireland so after 14 years have decided I need it again! ; ))I am going to be studying to get into the Public Education system here. It is a colossal task as you have to study a whole English degree program and do continuous learning courses and stuff like that to get academic merit and then sit exams and do oral presentations of programs etc. Believe me when I say that I will be having my head down between now and June and probably chewing my fingers to the bone in the process. This could also mean that I will hardly have time to write any poems, unless under pressure some things come bobbing or exploding to the surface....! ; )

In other news, the dog drawing above titled 'Madra' is the work of the very talented, in-more-ways-than-one, Mr TFE. Go check out his blog post on Concern to see how you too can get a Mr TFE personalised drawing.

Also why not pop along to Barbara Smith to see what she did to celebrate All Ireland Poetry Day.

So I´m signing off now, just off to while away the evening in the valley, dog-walking and bullet-dodging as it is hunting rabbit day here in the Canaries, God bless us!
ciao!