Category Archives: musings

Launch of Author Newsletter

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I have created a link to sign up to my author newsletter, which can be accessed here, https://mailchi.mp/426d57064ebd/sign-up-to-my-newsletter.

Please note, this is an experiment on my part. If there is sufficient interest, I hope to issue the newsletter on a monthly basis.

Data collected should you sign up, will only be used to send the newsletter to you. It will not be shared with third parties. Should you wish to unsubscribe, you can do so at any time, either by clicking the unsubscribe link in the newsletter, or by sending an email to kmorris poet (at) gmail . com.

Interpretations

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During the time of Covid
The liberal hid
Himself away.
And took refuge in poetry
Where he could be free
To say
In enigmatic rhyme
How he spent his time.

Some thought
That he ought
To take greater care
For one has got
(Has one not)
To beware
Of those who see sin in
What is merely, a poet’s poetry?

Unbrollied

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The pleasure
Of hot
Weather.
Knowing not
Whether
The rain will come.

A cloud burst.
Relieves a thirst.
The rain does run.
But the pleasure
Of hot, wet weather
Soon is done.

And the wise,
Gazing into a stranger’s eyes,
Know that ’tis folly
To forget a brolly.

Yet, they still thirst
For the cloud to burst.
And the pleasure
Of hot wet weather
On unbrollied skin.
So take the rain in.

Possible Author Newsletter

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A couple of days back, a colleague dropped me an email saying that she was moving on to pastures new, and asking that I keep in touch with news about my poetry.

My colleague’s email got me thinking (not for the first time), that I should, perhaps start an occasional newsletter concerning my poetry, books I have enjoyed reading Etc.

There are a fair few friends and acquaintences who enjoy my poetry but who do not visit my blog on a regular basis. Of course I can email friends on an informal basis. However this can be time consuming and its easy to forget to send an email to John or Jill unless you have a definitive list of interested parties to hand.

Of course a newsletter would need to comply with data protection legislation (The General Data Protection Regulations, GDPR).

I would be interested in the views of my readers as regards author newsletters. Do you write or read them? Also, if you would be interested in a newsletter please let me know.

At present this is just the germ of an idea which may not come to fruition. But it is, I believe worth exploring.

Kevin

“You’re a joker”, she said

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“You’re a joker”, she said,
Doubling over in laughter.
“If you didn’t laugh
You would cry”
Said I.

And after
I felt proud
That I can still engage
With a girl, half my age
And make her laugh Outloud.

I hear Eliot’s footman snicker.
The stage
Lights flicker
‘Ere the curtain does fall
Covering all.

A Podcast of Poet Kevin Morris’s Appearance on Vancouver Co-Op Radio’s The World Poetry Reading Series, On Thursday 24 September Is Now Available

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I am pleased to announce that a podcast of my recent appearance (24 September), on Vancouver Co-Op Radio’s The World Poetry Reading Series is now available, and can be accessed here, http://www.coopradio.org/station/archives/1707.

If you did not have an opportunity to listen on Thursday 24 September, or would like to do so again, please visit the above link.

My reading takes place approximately 12-15 minutes into the podcast, which I listened back to using Google Chrome.