Tag: Italy
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VI – Review
Here’s a couple of reviews for VI, very happy that folks have noticed the more personal elements to this one 🙂 SB Wright’s Review of VI No, when I say more personal, it’s not that Capes hasn’t written in detail about his life, travels and growing up in a setting that I can deeply relate…
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VI – preview – each pale song
each pale song your hair has grown deep into the green stone of age just as hills have grown between us and oceans salt everything – sunbathers and their pastel umbrellas get away with nothing here and driftwood piles in hours heaped upon what few memories I have gathered even as my head spills…
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slow clap
in photographs of me in the canals my face eating the sunlight I smile because it’s amazing in my memory and even now that winter is heavy upon us I somehow forget wanting to push my fellow tourists into the green and simply get on with taking comfort from once, years ago now once being…
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old stone & between giants – print & ebook available now
Very pleased to announce that my latest poetry collection – a combination of two of my previous collections – is now available in print and ebook form from a variety of retailers 🙂 Click on the image for some samples of the poetry and see below for a list of some of the outlets. Signed…
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Between Giants & Old Stone – Combined Edition
Hi everyone! Just a quick post to let you know that Ginninderra Press is soon releasing a combined edition of my last two collections between giants and old stone: haiku, senryu & haibun in both digital and print formats. Right now you can actually pre-order the kindle version for under five dollars – there’s over…
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garnish
. on our last night in Rome the thrill of nicotine as garnish has worn off and the waitress at the hotel knows I’ll order panna cotta for dessert. after a long search for band aids the next morning we return to the Trevi Fountain and throw a coin and much later on the plane,…
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old stone – a mock up
Last night I spent some time messing around with covers, and came up with this for a future release. I don’t have a home for this MS yet, nor a solid title but I did have fun making it. I wanted a thematic link between this and between giants because they both feature travel pieces, hence…
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Two haibun published at Contemporary Haibun Online
Very happy to report that two more of my haibun pieces have been accepted, this time by the wonderful Contemporary Haibun Online. One is a little newer than the other, though both deal with being a tourist in Italy, something I was lucky enough to do back in 2011. Here they are: Vatican Blues Firenze…
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