Monthly Archives: November 2018

Competition to win a free audio download of “The Writer’s Pen and Other Poems”

To celebrate the release of the audio edition of “The Writer’s Pen and Other Poems”, on 29 November, (www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Writers-Pen-and-Other-Poems-Audiobook/B07KPPQ2K2), I am offering 2 free copies of the audio edition to readers who are based in the United Kingdom. I hope to run a similar offer for readers elsewhere in the near future.

 

The rules:

 

  1. There are 2 free audio downloads of “The Writer’s Pen and Other Poems” available to readers based in the UK.
  2. The first 2 people to email me with the correct answer to the question posed at the end of this post will receive a promotional code enabling them to download my book free from audible.co.uk.
  3. Emails should be sent to newauthoronline (at) gmail dot com with the subject line “competition to win an audio download of The Writer’s Pen”. Please note, the email address is rendered thus to defeat spammers!
  4. Please do not provide the answer in the comments section at the foot of this post, as other readers will be able to read it!
  5. The competition closes at 5 pm (UK time) on Friday 7th December 2018.

 

The question:

 

Who wrote the poem which begins, “You are old Father William, the young man said”.

 

“The Writer’s Pen and Other Poems” is now available as an audio download

I am delighted to announce that my book, “The Writer’s Pen and Other Poems” is now available, as an audio download. To listen to a free sample, or to purchase the audio edition of “The Writer’s Pen” please visit the following links:

 

Amazon UK – https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07KPPG98M/.

Amazon.com – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KPN8LT3/

Audible UK – https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Writers-Pen-and-Other-Poems-Audiobook/B07KPPQ2K2?qid=1543492108&sr=sr_1_1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&pf_rd_r=097Y5Q5ACK69HF24NP3B&

Audible.com – https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Writers-Pen-and-Other-Poems-Audiobook/B07KPN5FCH?qid=1543492267&sr=sr_1_1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=K1847HTE9SJHWH1JH6TE&

 

“The Writer’s Pen” is also available in both Kindle and paperback formats from Amazon UK and amazon.com, and can be found here:

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07GD1LBMV/ (Kindle edition)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1730814883/ (paperback edition).

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GD1LBMV/ (Kindle edition)

and https://www.amazon.com/dp/1730814883/ (paperback edition).

 

 

 

‘Ode to a Nightingale’: A Poem by John Keats

One of my favourite poems.

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‘Ode to a Nightingale’ was admired by contemporary critics and reviewers of Keats’s work. According to one account it was written by Keats under a plum tree in the garden of Keats House, London in May 1819. Keats was inspired by hearing the sound of birdsong and penned this poem in praise of the nightingale. Like ‘Bright Star’ it is a brilliant poem about mortality and the lure of death and escape. F. Scott Fitzgerald took the phrase ‘tender is the night’ from this poem and used it as the title for his 1934 novel.

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“I Noticed People Disappeared”, by Emily Dickinson

I noticed people disappeared,
When but a little child–
Supposed they visited remote,
Or settled regions wild.

Now know I they both visited
And settled regions wild,
But did because they died–a fact
Withheld the little child!