Further to the announcement of the competition to win an audio download of my book “The Writer’s Pen and Other poems, which closed at 5 pm on Friday 7 December, I am delighted to announce that Zoe, of Zurkpoetry (https://zurkpoetry.wordpress.com) has woon a copy of my book. Many congratulations to Zoe!
To listen to a free sample of “The Writer’s Pen”, or to purchase the audio book please visit https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07KPPG98M/.
A young lady who’s name is Wong
Has love for me most strong,
But my girlfriend Lou
Comes home at 2
So it can’t last very long …
The wind laughs in a tree.
And as for me
I think on my poetry
Desire.
Fire.
Seamstress.
Confess.
Short.
Dress.
The competition to win a free audio download of my book, “The Writer’s Pen and Other Poems” closes at 5 pm today (Friday 7 December UK time). As of 6:30 am I have received no entries to the competition. If you would like to enter please contact me by 5 pm today. Many thanks, Kevin
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:
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When a young lady who’s name is Ling
Invited me to swing
I asked my friend Lou
To join in too
But it really wasn’t her thing …
There was a young lady called Michelle
Who entered that placed named hell,
But being extremely rude
And more than crude
The devil did Michelle expel.
If you are a UK-based poet, did you know that you can ask the National Poetry Library to consider adding your works to their catalogue. To find out how to request that the Library consider adding your work, please see below.
Having published “The Writer’s Pen and Other Poems”, on 3 September 2018, contacting The National Poetry Library is on my list of things to do. (You can find “The Writer’s Pen” here, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GD1LBMV.
“My poetry book is published. How do I make sure the library has a copy?
Firstly check our catalogue to make sure we don’t already have a copy.
If it’s not there, please bear in mind that we receive 200-300 new items every month and are unable to accept everything that is sent for the collection.
The Acquisitions Panel meet regularly to consider submissions.
For your book to be considered, please send in a copy including a return address; the librarians will consider it and respond to you.
Please send one book at a time. We have standing orders with most of the UK poetry publishers.
If you are a new publisher who would like to submit your books please get in touch.
We are primarily concerned with collecting UK and Irish publications so please contact us before sending publications from overseas.
FAQ: https://www.nationalpoetrylibrary.org.uk/visit/faqs.
When a journalist by the name of Lee
Wrote a story about me
I threatened to sue
But my lawyer, named Lou
Said, “but sir, every word of it is true!”.
While one can never say never, I think that Matthew may well be correct.
I think, therefore I am a slide rule.
Often, Frankenstein-style, the AI develops malevolence. That was a trope long before HAL; virtually all of Asimov’s robot stories from the 1940s onwards were designed to counter the notion of the AI turning on its creators. Asimov’s answer – which, apparently, was proposed to him by John W. Campbell – were the ‘laws of robotics’ in which machines simply couldn’t harm humans.
Inevitably, these laws didn’t work, and Asimov knew it; a lot of his stories involved finding ways that the laws failed. He spelled out the main point of failure in one of the final robot novels: all the builder had to do was…
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