11 Friday Dec 2015
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Yipee! The Counting Magpies paperback is now available on Amazon!
Take a break from the hurly burly of the holiday season and treat yourself to a little oasis of poetry 🙂
10 Thursday Dec 2015
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Hoorah – it is finally here and just in time for the holidays 🙂 I am so delighted with the quality and the anthology has a lovely tactile cover.
I will be releasing a limited edition but not until after Christmas – The limited edition will contain three bonus poems – autographed by my own fair hand and I will hand write a poem of your choice, in the front. There will only be 25 limited edition books available 🙂
05 Saturday Dec 2015
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Good news!
The paperback version of Counting Magpies is imminent! I will also be releasing a limited edition edition. The limited edition will contain three bonus poems and will be signed by my own fair hand. If you choose, I will also hand write one of my poems of your choice inside the book.
In the meantime here is a poem from Counting Magpies – a sneak preview!
Click on the picture of the book to take you to Amazon.
War Child
War child, far child,
not in my back yard child,
foul flies, infesting eyes,
freely grief is advertised.
Blasé news, propaganda views,
stretchered to the blues and twos.
Feuding plans, dividing clans,
charity absolving man.
Splitting heads, landmines, legs,
rubberneck, the child who begs,
behind the eyes, traumatized,
rape and murder legitimized.
Arms and gear, year on year,
dealers, spreadsheets, profiteer,
bankers, warlords, politician,
making schisms, capitalism.
War child, far child,
not in my back yard child.
© War Child by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Taken from Counting Magpies 2015
01 Sunday Nov 2015
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Janice Foley is one of my favourite artists – to celebrate my 50th Birthday I commissioned a painting from her. Â I asked her to base it on my poem ‘Le Lievre de la Lune’. This is what she came up with – It’s fabulous isn’t it? (Click on the painting and it will take you to Janice’s page).
There is a story behind the painting which is told in the poem, ‘Le Lievre de la Lune’. You can find out the story in my latest anthology, ‘Counting Magpies’. Click on the book cover to take you to the Amazon page. You can purchase a copy for £1.99 on Kindle 🙂
You can follow Janice Foley at https://www.facebook.com/Jannizart
23 Friday Oct 2015
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Hello!
Well… this Sunday is a very special day – it will be my half century birthday! Yikes, how did that happen? You lovely people have already made it a special month by purchasing copies of my new anthology and pushing it to number 3 on the Amazon Kindle Poetry charts.
I would like to ask a big favour – if you have had chance to flick through and read ‘Counting Magpies’, could you leave me a review on Amazon and Goodreads – that would be like an extra super birthday present! If you would like to buy a copy of ‘Counting Magpies’, please click on the links below to buy a copy for £1.99.
18 Sunday Oct 2015
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I now have an author page on Goodreads, please check it out 🙂
There is also opportunity to ask questions about any of the poems in Counting Magpies – If you want to know what inspired them, where or when I wrote them – ask away!!
Counting Magpies reached #3 on the Amazon Kindle poetry listings – you can purchase a copy for £1.99 – what a bargain!!
