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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.

Alexandra Carr-Malcolm – Goodreads

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!!

New Anthology – Counting Magpies

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 🙂

Counting Magpies

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!)

Counting Magpies

11 Sunday Oct 2015

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I am delighted to announce that my second anthology, ‘Counting Magpies’, is now out on Kindle! At a very reasonable price of £1.99, you can treat yourself to a copy 🙂

Counting Magpies

29 Tuesday Sep 2015

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Coming soon…….

My second anthology will be released on Kindle very soon 🙂

Counting Magpies

Scrabble

09 Tuesday Jun 2015

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shattered life
thrown down in letters
spelled disaster

©Scrabble 01.06.2015

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

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Fair Days and Foul

22 Friday May 2015

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My tummy feels like summer,

or a giggle just set free,

like a flitter of lairy butterflies,

or a swarm of buzzy bees.

My heart beats to the rhythm,

of girls who jump the rope,

bouncing like a bright beach ball,

shown on some Oscilloscope.

My mind spins like the waltzer,

at a gaily lit up fair.

My head is full of candy floss,

and kites that surf the air.

If I could catch the essence,

and save a jar or two,

I’d keep them in my cupboard,

for when I’m feeling blue.

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

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Sisterhood

13 Wednesday May 2015

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Six sisters sailed into the world,

wide eyed and Brodie primed,

each on a quest and unprepared,

Pioneers before their time.

Some went in search of a rare red rose,

and others, too soon, gone;

they failed to find their mustard seed,

that would take them safely home.

Watched over by St Helena,

throughout their autumn years,

past lives and loves, and trials above,

spring cherry blossom tears.

Procrustean lives, we onward strive,

to be the crème de la crème,

through all the tears and ebbing years,

we’d do it all again.

Decades gone as life moves on,

has it been for the greater good?

The Cardinal flight, with the Spire in sight,

where we seal our sisterhood.

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

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This poem is inspired by and dedicated to Ann Proctor, Belinda Foncree, Rebecca Hewitt, Josie Davies and Lynn Ankrett – Five amazing ladies, we weather the worldly winds together ❤

The Old Gunner

08 Friday May 2015

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In light of the political disappointment today, I thought I’d share this poem again. I can’t begin to express my disappointment that we have to endure another five years of austerity cuts which seem to hit the most vulnerable people in society. Only hours after the results the DWP announce that ATW for the disabled will be severely cut.

The Old Gunner

Last one to go down

Fighting hard

A shooting star

Bucks the trend

Yet to what end?

Keep your feet to the fire

Squash the poor man down

Loopholes and promises

It’s gunner change

It’s gunner end

Taxing the senses

Try hard to pretend

Banking your pence’s

And yet to what end?

Ground moonbeams roasted

And fed to the masses

Who don’t ask questions

Morals and molasses

Standoff at Dodge City

Ten paces at dawn

Ethical genocide

Battle lines drawn

Highway robbery

Caffeine snobbery

Dead man’s boots

Amazonian roots

The Old Gunner

Last one to go down

Fighting hard

A shooting star

Bucks the trend

Yet to what end?

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

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Scrabble

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