12 Sunday Apr 2020
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This is a poem from my second anthology ‘Counting Magpies’ 2015
Happy Easter everyone, stay home, stay safe!
05 Tuesday Apr 2016
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Sorry about the blurry focus on the youtube clip! I don’t know what happened, at least I didn’t break the camera.
My mum was diagnosed with cancer in March 2005. The seasonal flower around Easter is the daffodil, consequently in the hospital she received a lot of beautiful vibrant daffodils. Also very significant as it is the symbol for Marie Curie cancer care.
I wrote this poem a few weeks later whilst she was in the hospice.
It is true – if you put a vase of tightly closed daffodils on a warm and sunny window ledge, you can hear them creak and crinkle as they open 🙂 I noticed this whilst she was sleeping and I was sat by her side.
Daffodils
Those last few weeks
we spent watching the daffodils.
Like two mischievous schoolgirls
we laughed until we cried
we cried until we laughed.
You said daffodils were noisy,
that they crinkled when they opened.
I thought it was the morphine;
but you were right,
they are noisy –
crinkly daffodils!
I see them
and I laugh
and cry.
© Daffodils 18.08.2013
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Daffodils is published in Counting Magpies by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, if you would like to purchase a copy, please contact me 🙂
20 Wednesday Jan 2016
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Black and White Barb is about my mum and dedicated to my mum on what would have been her birthday today. Always in our hearts.
This is available in my latest anthology – Counting Magpies. There are a few copies of the limited edition anthology left at £10 plus postage. The limited edition has three bonus poems, is signed by my own fair hand, and will also include a handwritten poem 🙂 Please contact me if you would like a copy.
Black and White Barb
Unkindly they called you
black and white Barb,
and made you sound –
like a magpie.
One for sorrow,
(and there was) pain.
It wasn’t true –
What’s in a name?
Your deepest depths
you were so strong,
a monochrome bird
with a nightingale’s song.
© Black and White Barb 2015
By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
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
26 Monday Oct 2015
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Hello!!
I had a fabulous birthday. I spent the day in Whitby, ate lunch overlooking the harbour, went on a Captain Cook ship adventure, and was generally treated like a Queen for the day. This being 50 is turning out to be fun after all!
Thank you so much for all the kind, ‘likes’ and birthday wishes – you are a great bunch!! I thought I would share a few pictures of my half centenary day!!
Have you had chance to download a copy of my latest anthology, ‘Counting Magpies’? The link is below – Click on the book cover and it will take you to the amazon page 🙂
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!!
16 Friday Oct 2015
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Hi!
It has been a whirlwind week with the release of my second anthology, ‘Counting Magpies’. I was totally delighted and stunned when it made it as high as number 3 in the Amazon Kindle poetry listings!!
If you like edgy poetry along the theme of superstition and the darker side of life, why not grab yourself a copy for the weekend. Reasonably priced at £1.99 – for the price of a Happy Meal you can indulge in a bit of culture.
Have a great weekend!!
Alex 🙂
13 Tuesday Oct 2015
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Hello dear friends, writers, and fellow poets,
This is just a quick update to say my Kindle anthology is currently number 3 in the Amazon Kindle Poetry listings. I am absolutely delighted and stunned!!
If you would like to purchase your copy for a fantastic price of £1.99 please follow the links below.
Thank you so much for supporting me – and thank you to the kind readers who have left me fabulous feedback – every writer loves feedback as it validates all our efforts – Thank you!! (Signing off, as it is starting to wander into an Oscar acceptance speech!)
Worldly Winds 