I thought I'd better post a brief update on progress toward publication of the new book...

The promotional interview video for the forthcoming Doubtist Books poetry book "Threatening cuts" by Alexander Velky has now been published.

Today the last to be allowed to die / Will say her words and give the nurse the nod...

We two were born, entwined like vines, to share dull destiny...

Through the bathroom mirror’s condensation / I’m sizing up my hair for harvest time...

We fell asleep beneath red leaves / And left the goats to ramble / I dreamt of apple blossom, / You dreamt of apple crumble...

I often lie awake and wonder / About the things that I might like / If money were not an issue, / If space were not an object...

My folk, my family told in tales, were taller in those days...

Would you walk the trembling embers with me, Lord? / Would you walk the trembling embers with me, Lord?

For a decade we fought off the wild polar bears, / And laboured by day in forty-knot winds...

“Have you ever tried needles?” he asked, /Mancunian tongue, Gog saliva. /Thin and looking sorry for himself...

I have a confession to make. Last week I bought a second-hand copy of my own poetry book off Amazon for £5.00, plus P&P...

Benefactress, retired actress, / Please don’t fund my art...

There’s an industrial hum / At the art factory. / You can feel how far we’ve come / At the art factory...

Its dimensions are delicious: / All three of them equally so. / Its composition is comparable / In purity to snow...