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New year, new skin ♥
Poetry is a form of art – inexplicable in its ability to communicate, resonate and provoke. I said that back in 2014, when I founded Paperfields Press, and it’s a sentiment I still agree with. Words, like artwork, can cause a deep stirring in my heart, mind, and soul. Not all, but some, and not often, but sometimes. Similarly, a poetry book is a form of art, and it’s important (but not always easy on an indie budget) to match the cover with the content. When I think back to my first book and the cover I envisioned, my budget to commission a cover and my skills to design a cover…
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The Passage of a little salmon (2015 Archive)
This is one of many posts that was lost when I migrated my site in 2016. This post was originally published on 5 August 2015. Like the salmon, I am fuelled by an instinctive mission that, in reality, seems impossible to achieve, but ever faithful about my safe passage upstream. ~ Bianca Bowers I cannot aptly describe the heady mix of emotions that blossom when an author receives her first shipment of freshly penned books. It is the crossover moment from intangible to tangible; the architect standing at the feet of a 3-dimensional building having pored over 2-dimensional drawings for months or even years. It is an achievement that induces…
