GIVE US ANOTHER POEM, THEY SAID

I received word by text message this morning that I can expect the delivery of six copies of my newly published chapbook The Speaking Trees between 4 and 5 pm today. The text says they will be delivered by 'your DPD driver Bulk'. I am looking forward to meeting Bulk and receiving from him my bulkhead of books.
The Speaking Trees is published by SurVision Books. Anatoly Kudryavitsky is the editor and presiding spirit of this new imprint, which espouses the surreal and the experimental in poetry.
In the words of Patrick Kavanagh:
Give us another poem, they said,
Or else we'll think your muse is dead.

The Speaking Trees can be obtained directly from SurVision Books at www.survisionmagazine.com
or from Amazon.co.uk, Lulu or other websites.

Besides six favourites from my last collection, Life Monitor, the chapbook contains twelve poems which have not been collected in book form before and five of these are published here for the first time:

CONTENTS

Magritte
As Regards the Dark
The Lost Jockey
Please Hold
Gluttony
Carol*
Fairies*
Angel Hour*
Dead Recital**
Budapest Quartet*
An Interview with Ivan**
Man in Field Talking to Cows*
Head*
Old Possum's Stray**
The Speaking Trees
Dogbark Metaphysics**
Once Upon October*
Frost on a Snowy Evening**

* = poems uncollected before
** = poems unpublished before