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Hi all. We hope you’re having a good weekend, whatever it is you are doing.

We have been running a crowdfunding  campaign over at Indiegogo for about 10 days now (link just at the top there). In this time we have managed to get $251 in contribution, towards our total goal of $5,000. With this campaign we are hoping to raise the funds to help push ourselves to the next level –

Turning Dagda Publishing into a proper poetry and literary fiction publishing house.

The funds raised will help us do even more to promote the next generation of writers, helping them on their way to being successful authors, and securing the future of poetry and literary fiction. Primarily, the funds will go toward such things as – Business costs, marketing, advertising, website design professional print runs, ISBN purchase, advances for authors, and organising poetry events in the…

Well, here we are, on another release day. Thinkulations is now available for purchase in paperback and Kindle formats. Follow the links below to get a copy for yourself.

Our first collected works by a single author, this is a collection of 50 poems by Paul D Hegginson spanning the last ten years.

Included in this collection are poetic treatises on life, love, the nature of existence, the metaphysical world, nature, and the soul of the poet. This is, simply, a beautifully crafted world of words captured in time and space. An essential collection of poetry by this exciting new author.

Featuring cover artwork by the amazing Lucy Hartshorn, with cover typsetting by A D Warr, and edited by Reg Davey.

Paperback will cost you £4.00 + p&p and the ebook is priced at £3.08, which we feel is highly reasonable (and probably the cost of a coffee at Starbucks…

Vision of purity

Adamantine Noble Lord

Jewel in the lotus

Revered for your calm

Assuredly present beyond

Space or time

A cleanser of Death – Oh

Tantric delight

Turning my heart to

Visualise you, always so present

A sacred shared vow

© Vajrasattva 2012

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Vajrasattva Buddha with Bell (Ghanta) and Thunderbolt (Vajra), Tibet, 18th century (Photo credit: opacity)

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Hello all. We decided not to post a featured poem, instead this is just to remind you of a few things going on with us at the moment.

First up, suppose the main piece of news at the moment, is that we have a collection out on Wednesday 20th Feb (this Wednesday) for sale – “Thinkulations” by Paul D Hegginson. Available for the reasonable price of £4 (paperback from Lulu.com) and £2.99 (Kindle/Ebook) this is a collection of 50 poems from the last 10 years on the subjects of life, love, the nature of being and the nature of the poet themselves. Featuring cover artwork by the extremely talented Lucy Hartshorn (Lucy Illustrates on Facebook), this is a collection of poems anyone should have in their collection. Buy a copy and help us support new writers.

Secondly, we are still looking for submissions for our Western Haiku anthology, you have…

I have a problem
And I can only explain
In five, seven, five.

It started last year,
A competition entry,
To write a haiku.

I liked the feeling
The counting of syllables,
The three lined pattern.

And I couldn’t stop.
I entered sixty-seven.
My new obsession.

I count on fingers,
The syllables on digits,
As I speak out loud.

Tip tap on paper
My spidery hands tap, tap,
Checking the numbers.

I saw the doctor,
He watched my finger counting,
He thinks I’m quite mad.

My mother just sighs,
She asks if I want carrots
And I can’t answer …

Without extra words.
I would love carrots, thank you.
Thank you, mother, thanks.

My boyfriend left me.
He thinks I’m a total freak.
I cried for a week.

I don’t miss him now,
His PS3, stinky socks,
Or his ignorance.

So, I’ll carry on
Counting my tapping fingers
And being…

Link to our Indiegogo campaign.

Good day WordPress. We have a bit of news to share today. We are now underway with our Crowdfunding campaign, to help us put into action our plan of becoming an Indie publisher of literature and poetry. Obviously, these things require money, and this is one of the best ways of us sourcing some finances.

Now, as you know, we have been going for just over a year now, and in this time we have published over a hundred new poems by new and exciting writers, and have put out two small anthologies, are working on another, and a poetry collection by Paul D Hegginson, amngst other projects. The funds we raise from our Indiegogo campaign will help us bring out even more publications, better funded, better marketed and more successful.

The campaign is to raise an initial $5000 for business and marketing costs, obviously…

On 21st December 2011 a shy, middle-aged man from Scotland crept nervously into the dVerse Poets Pub, dropped a link into Mr Linky for the first time and then snuck quietly out again, stopping only long enough to leave a comment and then read a few of the poems that others had posted before he’d plucked up enough courage to add his to the list. Four people followed him out, read his poem and left comments on his blog –

and from that moment I was hooked.

Now, just 15 months later, it is my pleasure to welcome you – one and all – to the pub for Open Link Night 83. I don’t know exactly what we’ll be serving up tonight – that depends entirely on what you choose to bring – but I do know there’ll be poetry, and lots of it. Most likely there’ll be responses to…