Some years ago I had some of my poems published in hard-copy magazines and anthologies. Life in the intervening years has been really focused on materialism rather than material for verse and I decided a couple of weeks ago that I needed a much broader lense again.
Instead of writing poems and just filing them away, I'm going to publish short anthologies every quarter and the first collection has just gone live on amazon. You can download it to a Kindle or Kindle app on PC, iPad, iPhone and so on:
Alternatively, you can just go to amazon and search for Mark Rasdall; the Fen Creative collection will appear. It's available in UK, US and German stores and is priced at just £0.86 in the UK, $0.99 in the US and €0.99 in Germany.
Please do let me know what you think and, if you like them, feel free to share poems from Fen Creative with your friends!
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Sunday, July 10, 2011
How they grow
When our eldest son was three he attended the local play group in Southery, Norfolk for a few weeks. He didn't enjoy it and often sought sanctuary in a quiet part of the garden, away from all the noise of unruly children and their mothers. One highlight, though, was a trip to Banham Zoo near Thetford - also in Norfolk. My wife took him and his younger brother who was just one year old. They had a lovely day out together and Nathan loved the quiet dignity of the animals.
Nathan is now nineteen and spent yesterday playing bass at a gig in Somerset while Sam is seventeen and has spent the weekend at a music festival in Wiltshire. Both are a long way from Norfolk. However, Hayley, who is fifteen, asked if we could have a trip out somewhere yesterday and so we wound up, after all these years, at Banham Zoo.
It is a lovely place - well laid-out with lots of room for all the animals - with polite and helpful staff. The highlight though, once again, was the uncomplicated peace. As our children grow up they become ever more confident and adventurous but, like Hayley yesterday, they can still be enchanted by the natural world.
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