tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54137647733455650852024-03-19T04:19:23.056-07:00Daniel Paul GilbertMy blog. Find out about my writings, musicings and other things!DPGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08104075419932118542noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413764773345565085.post-69445826638843580002020-11-08T09:25:00.000-08:002020-11-08T09:25:00.703-08:00The Faith Business<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">So quite a few of my previous poetry ventures have been faith based (poetic interpretations of the bible and worship poetry) and it is in my mind at the moment about making money from my faith.</span></p><div class="mail-message expanded" id="m-5005801298000137345" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><div class="mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images msg3585149798860012094" style="margin: 16px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="clear"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_3585149798860012094WordSection1"><p class="m_3585149798860012094MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_3585149798860012094MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">Growing up I was really into Christian music and contemporary worship music but over time, despite being Christian musician and worship leader, I began to feel cynical about what I perceived the Christian music industry to be. My family was poor but we weren’t poverty stricken thanks to my parents thriftiness, but I think it affected me. All the money I had was from working on my paper round and I spent a good chunk of it on music, some from big name high street stores but more likely from 2<sup>nd</sup> hand record stores. This was before internet shopping and streaming was a thing.</p><p class="m_3585149798860012094MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_3585149798860012094MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">If there was a Christian album I wanted then it always smarted a bit because they would usually have to be bought from the Christian book shop and the price was usually 50 per cent more than a new album from HMV or Virgin.</p><p class="m_3585149798860012094MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_3585149798860012094MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">I realise now that the artist, distributor, record company, struggling Christian book shop, would all take a cut from this sale which probably doesn’t amount to much. But even that sentence displays my belief that the artist, record companies and distributors were well off, comfortable.</p><p class="m_3585149798860012094MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_3585149798860012094MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">I was a massive Delirious? fan in my teens and they are still the band I have seen most live thanks to their yearly tours and appearances at Christian festivals. They would also release a new album each year which is creatively commendable but after a while, as a fan made it feel like you were being squeezed.</p><p class="m_3585149798860012094MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_3585149798860012094MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">This was undoubtedly the way music industry was back then (it is very different now with digital media) and Delirious? needed to make a living which may not have been a lot but you sensed that they were big business and weren’t struggling in the same way that smaller bands like Brown Bear Music probably were. I don’t mean to pick on Delirious? and I am certain that they and the other mainstream Christian acts from that that time were entirely honourable and their hearts were good, but it bothered me that accessing their music came at a particularly high cost and those who may be most in need of it couldn’t afford to be blessed by it.</p><p class="m_3585149798860012094MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_3585149798860012094MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">I didn’t really think about it until after university when I started exploring self publishing and ebooks. My first biblical poetry book ‘Solomon’s song of songs’ was an experiment in publishing for Kindle and largely for myself but it was the first time that I questioned it for myself. I listed the book for the least amount possible and made it available for free promotions and between the freebies and paid downloads I think it amounted to over 1000 purchases and I made about £30. At this time I was in a different job that I hated and I thought about trying to make something more of it but the idea of trying to profit from my faith made me feel uncomfortable and I felt it was more important and gratifying to have something that was accessible to as many people as possible and that would be a blessing rather than a business opportunity.</p><p class="m_3585149798860012094MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_3585149798860012094MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">This has informed all my subsequent publications and musical releases which have been made available for as cheap as possible or for free with options to tip, depending where they were listed.</p><p class="m_3585149798860012094MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_3585149798860012094MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">With my current project and current work situation I have questioned this again. This project is bigger than anything I have done before and I think it has potential for further reach and interest. It is something that I think a Christian publisher would probably be interested in and something that I could make money from, but my inclination is still that it should be as cheap as possible because I think it will be a helpful book for Christians and non Christians. My heart says it should be this way. But I am tempted to pursue a more commercial path with it. I am doing a considerable amount of work on it alongside my full time job and it is something that could potentially open other creative opportunities. Despite this it still doesn’t feel right, I feel that the business side of taking that decision, contracts, marketing, promotion, trying to monetise it and make a profit, it doesn’t feel right.</p><p class="m_3585149798860012094MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_3585149798860012094MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">Yet thousands of authors, bands, artists, are making money from their faith. Does that make it ok?</p><p class="m_3585149798860012094MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_3585149798860012094MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">I would love to hear someone’s perspective on this.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div><div class="mail-message-footer spacer collapsible" style="height: 0px;"></div></div><div class="spacer" id="conversation-footer" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; height: 96px;"></div>DPGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08104075419932118542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413764773345565085.post-35820879465117019582020-11-08T09:22:00.006-08:002020-11-08T09:22:45.688-08:002020 thoughts<p> </p><div class="mail-message expanded" id="m-197670847260118086" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><div class="mail-message-header spacer" style="height: 107px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">2020, for me, as for many, has been a time of re-evaluation. I was working from home for a while and was cut off from my colleagues and the usual work I was doing, and I loved it. I started to think about how happier I was away from the stress of the office and I realised that I really no longer liked my job and having to come back to the office has been awful</span></div><div class="mail-message-header spacer" style="height: 107px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I started looking for other jobs but at this difficult time there wasn’t a lot and so felt I should be grateful for the job that I have. Also I never knew what I wanted to do. The dream was to do something creative but there are no guarantees with that and I had no idea how to be self employed. It also seems like a big risk to quit your secure job and risk doing something on your own. I’m not a risky guy and value the security of a job I can get by doing (I didn’t hate it until recently, maybe the feeling will pass)</span></div><div class="mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images msg-1060469279319604966" style="margin: 16px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="clear"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_-1060469279319604966WordSection1"><p class="m_-1060469279319604966MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_-1060469279319604966MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">I have always reconciled doing my creative projects on the side, knowing I could never make a living from them but it hit me yesterday that in all of the jobs I have ever had, I have always snuck in doing creative work. I don’t mean I would approach the job in a creative way or try to make it creative somehow.</p><p class="m_-1060469279319604966MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_-1060469279319604966MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">I am ashamed to admit it but I mean that I would do my own creative projects on work time, just doing a bit between tasks or phone calls. There will be periods when my work focus is renewed but I can’t keep away from doing my own thing.</p><p class="m_-1060469279319604966MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_-1060469279319604966MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">I can’t see myself quitting my job to write, it feels very extreme. The best I can hope for at the moment is to make something of what I am creating and see where that leads. If it is out of this job into something creative that is mine then so be it. It’s in God’s hands</p><p class="m_-1060469279319604966MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_-1060469279319604966MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">Maybe it is a bit of a cop out.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div><div class="mail-message-footer spacer collapsible" style="height: 0px;"></div></div><div class="spacer" id="conversation-footer" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; height: 96px;"></div>DPGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08104075419932118542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413764773345565085.post-28165222140715843342020-11-08T09:14:00.003-08:002020-11-08T09:14:36.479-08:00I'm back<p> <span style="font-size: 11pt;">Hello again, good to see you. It’s been a while! Did you miss me?</span></p><div class="mail-message expanded" id="m5969471506198836605" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><div class="mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images msg5836192455500375408" style="margin: 16px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="clear"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_5836192455500375408WordSection1"><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">So I am relaunching the blog, you've probably not been here before so I'm going to treat it as if this is a new blog.</p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">So.</p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">My name is Dan, I am, for want of a better word, a ‘creative’. This is a term which I think sounds pretentious but when I say writer, musician, craftsman, etc, I worry that looks pretentious too.</p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">Although, the fact I am writing a blog is itself ostentatious but I want to put myself, and the things I do out there, so perhaps I shouldn’t worry about the titles I am using.</p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">The main things you will learn about me through this blog are that I am a husband, I am a Christian, I am a poet, I am a comedy writer, I am a novel writer, I write about my faith and about Christianity (not sure what you really call that and feels a bit of a stretch to call myself a bible scholar or theologian, and that does sound pretentious). I am a one time condiment entrepreneur, I am an artist, I am a wood worker, I make musical instruments, I am a crafter, an anxiety sufferer and finally I am an Admin officer who works for the NHS.</p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">Why this then?</p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">Creativity is really important to me, it is what keeps me sane and it has always been my dream to be able to make a living of my creative pursuits. However, I never figured out how to do this.</p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">As a child my passion was music, I wrote songs and played guitar, keyboard and sang in a band. We had some success after winning a band contest judged by Mike McCartney (brother of Paul McCartney of Beatles fame who I once saw walking out of Kwik Save, but that is a different story) and Andy McCluskey of OMD and Atomic Kitten fame. We cut a demo with Andy (in the studio where Atomic Kitten recorded their debut album – that’s right, look impressed!) and there was some interest but the other (better) songwriter left to go to university and it just never happened.</p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">I myself went to university where I studied Creative Writing and I fell in love with poetry. I was good at it and received good feedback and encouragement from my lecturers and had a number of poems published in journals and magazines. I also learned how hard it was to become a published poet and how it was a profession that also needed support from additional income, such as teaching. I was encouraged to pursue this and invited to take a master’s degree but by the end of university I could no longer financially sustain a student life and also I wasn’t really interested in teaching so it would have just been a self indulgence.</p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">I began work but continued to write poetry and also began recording music to accompany my poetry as I was interested in making poetry more accessible. The result was my project “Inertia” which is still available and which I am still proud of. I also self published books of original poetry and interpretations of biblical poetry. I also ran poetry workshops and wrote a book on how to write different types of poetry, which has sold more than all my other books of poetry put together, (which still isn’t many, I probably make about £10 a month, which is still better than nothing) and proves that people would rather write poetry than buy poetry.</p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">I continued to write and perform music under different guises, most recently as The Fall Quarter, a coverall for my music/poetry and general music.</p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">In lockdown I have taken on a few new projects, wood craft and making musical instruments (lap steels, fretless bass guitars) and have started renovating guitars.</p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">I have also had 3 ideas for book which I have started work on, one of which is well under way, not poetry, not fiction, and based on my faith.</p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_5836192455500375408MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">By doing this blog I hope to share what I am doing a bit, voice my ideas as I work on different things , and just see what comes.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> </p><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div><div class="mail-message-footer spacer collapsible" style="height: 0px;"></div></div>DPGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08104075419932118542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413764773345565085.post-33313755282458366232016-09-23T09:32:00.000-07:002016-09-23T09:32:14.592-07:00Worship Poetry Anthology<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is kind of late in the day I realise but for a few months now I have been collecting poems and receiving submissions for a worship poetry anthology that I am putting together which can be used<span style="background-color: white; color: #727272; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.48px;"> in prayer and worship. The anthology will include both classical and modern poetry.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #727272; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #727272; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.48px;">My heart behind this project is to create a something that will be accessible to as many people as possible and that will offer a different dimension within our prayer and worship. It will be available for free download where possible or for as cheap as possible, for example through Amazon or if we make printed copies available. My hope is that it will find its way to as many people as possible without cost being an obstacle.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #727272; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #727272; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #727272; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.48px;">I am hoping to find interesting, diverse and creative poetry that expresses who we believe God to be, that helps us to worship God and to help us engage with God in our times of worship.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #727272; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #727272; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #727272; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.48px;">If you are interested then you can read more about the the project and the thoughts that are behind it then head over at the website where you can find out more.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #727272; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #727272; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.48px;" /><span style="color: #727272;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.48px;">http://www.worshippoetryanthology.tk/</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #727272;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.48px;">However, the deadline for submissions is 1 October 2016 so you have about a week if you want to contribute!</span></span></span>DPGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08104075419932118542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413764773345565085.post-46935842615464541472015-02-12T14:58:00.003-08:002015-02-12T15:00:21.084-08:00Praying the Psalms as Poems | Book 1<span style="background-color: white;">I have a new book out based on the first book in the collection of The Psalms. I will be working on 4 more books to correspond with the other 4 books that complete The Psalms, releasing them as they are ready through Amazon and Noisetrade. Book One is available from Kindle Store and Noisetrade now... more information below.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">I am also nearing completion on my poetic interpretations of Ecclesiastes and will post more about that soon but until then check out Praying The Psalms as Poems - Book One.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 25.90625px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Over the years I have tried to read The Psalms as daily devotions or bible studies, but each attempt ends with me struggling to relate to them as prayers that mean something to me and I give up. Recently I have felt challenged once again about using The Psalms in prayer, just as we see Jesus using them in his prayers in the New Testament. In the same way, I want them to be central to me in my prayer life. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 25.90625px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">So this is my attempt to know The Psalms in a way that makes sense to me. That in working with the texts and translating them into poems, their words would give voice to the cries of my heart and the yearnings of my soul. In working with the five books that complete The Psalms, I hope that in putting these versions out there, others my may find a fresh insight into The Psalms and into prayer.</span></span>DPGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08104075419932118542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413764773345565085.post-27962302815432133432014-09-14T11:11:00.000-07:002014-09-14T11:11:18.259-07:00A draft of something newI have been working on a poetic interpretation of Ecclesiastes and wanted to share.<br />
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Nothing has meaning.<br />
Everything is pointless,<br />
like an inane transient cloud.<br />
A single breath of smoke.<br />
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Think of all the tears and sweat<br />
that you pour into your work.<br />
What do you actually gain<br />
from everything that you do?<br />
Generations flourish and then fade<br />
and are replaced by others that pass,<br />
leaving no sign they were ever there,<br />
only the dirt where they once walked.<br />
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The sun rises every dawn<br />
and then sets with every dusk<br />
repeating the monotonous cycle<br />
with the same numbing predictability.<br />
The wind blows to the south<br />
but then changes and rushes north,<br />
mindlessly blowing one way then another,<br />
constant in it's confused and erratic mission.<br />
Every drop of water ends in the ocean<br />
but the seas is never satisfied and so<br />
the rivers and streams keep flowing<br />
tediously replenishing over and over again.<br />
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Every single aspect of life inspires apathy<br />
and is filled with indescribable monotony.<br />
Each dull thing bores the eyes blind<br />
and deafens ears with mundane noise.<br />
All that has once been will be again.<br />
Every occurrence that takes place<br />
is just an imitation of another.<br />
Nothing is original or new in this world.<br />
Someone might claim or insist<br />
they have something new to offer,<br />
but you can be sure that all it will be<br />
is a rehashed and repackaged cliché.<br />
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All than man achieves will fade away<br />
and the supposedly great things<br />
that will be accomplished in the future,<br />
will also pass into nothingness.<br />
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This is one of my favourite haiku by Ezra Pound<br />
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In a Station of the Metro<br />
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd;<br />
Petals on a wet, black bough<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">At this stage I am basically up to date and continue to work on future projects. I am about a third of the way through my work on the psalms and continue to edge towards completion. I will perhaps post a work in progress at some point soon.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I have also been spending every other spare moment working on a poetic interpretation of Ecclesiastes. This is something I have been holding back on because it was something I was looking forward to do. Sometimes I hear a piece of music and it just strikes a chord with my soul in a certain way. One particular example is Fratres by Arvo Part. It just resonates with me. And since I was a teenager Ecclesiastes has done the same sort of thing. As time has gone by I heard that other people held a special connection with Ecclesiastes. I don't know if it is the realness of it or the bitter rantyness of it compared to other books in the bible. I hope to tap into some of that with my version. Again, I may post something up soon but expect it to be ready sometime in the autumn.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">But until then...</span>DPGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08104075419932118542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413764773345565085.post-13997322542927917522014-08-28T13:29:00.001-07:002014-08-28T23:56:09.725-07:00The Book of Proverbs in Haiku<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">My first full encounter with the Proverbs as part of my daily life was again through listening to the Daily Audio Bible. Each day there would be a proverb and quite often they would be the most powerful reading but I also noticed that often if there was a more weighty passage then I would be caught thinking about that and the Proverb would just go over my head. I decided to listen to the DAB proverb podcast in the hope that there wold be time and space to sit with the proverb but instead it was a whole chapter read in a 5 minute session. This is a great way of listening to the proverbs in a month but it felt rushed.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I realised that this is often what happens when we approach the Proverbs. They become lost in their anthologised format and drown among each other or we see the full list and try to gorge ourselves on a whole chunk instead or siting with the single proverb for a while.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">It seemed to me that the Proverbs were a lot like the short form Haiku poems from ancient Japan which were short, pithy and full of observation and wisdom but contained in only 17 syllables. I wondered whether the proverbs could be translated into the haiku format and so I started to experiment and eventually I kept working through the entire book of Proverbs.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The work on this book was different from Song of Songs. Instead of translating from source I armed myself with a variety of existing translations and dictionaries I set condensing the proverbs into haiku.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I learnt so much in writing this book and it was a great opportunity to write a lot of haiku. So many of the proverbs were surprising and full of wisdom. After I released the book I had a really good response to the book.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I have since thought about how I might get the book published. I would love to see it in print and to see it reach a wider audience but at this time I don't know it that will happen or if that is the future for the book. Having looked into it a bit it seems that the Christian publishing world of poetry is not much different from the non Christian world of poetry and even If the book did get into print I'm not sure if it would mean that it would find a much wider audience. There are more possibilities for this in the US with things like Createspace and Lulu but not being in the US and having a US tax code seems to be a hurdle.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hopefully I will find a way. Any ideas let me know though...</span>DPGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08104075419932118542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413764773345565085.post-38724424823226483772014-08-28T13:12:00.000-07:002014-08-28T13:15:10.602-07:00Solomon's Song of Songs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I always like to have something to work on and like to keep writing if only for my own sanity and enjoyment. I usually like to have themes in mind when writing but there wasn't anything that sparked with me. And so I thought I would try and write a novel.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I had a couple of ideas, the first was about a vigilante masked hero which lasted for a couple of chapters before I lost hope in the idea. The second idea I had felt like it had some life in it and I began doing a fair bit of work on it but then something else grabbed my attention.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">At the start of the year I had begun to listen to the bible (because I'm lazy and sometimes can't be bothered to read) through the Daily Audio Bible Podcast. As a Christian I always felt kind of ashamed that I had never read through the entire bible but it just seemed daunting, but this seemed like a good way of doing it (and would recommend it to anyone!) It occurred to me that there was so much of the bible that I hadn't read, especially the poetry in the bible.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">As I listened to the Psalms and the wisdom literature I felt like it was something I wanted to explore deeper.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I wondered why I had ignored books books like Proverbs, Song of Songs, Lamentations and Job. I think part of it was the language but also I realised that I had missed the point that these were amazing poems that maybe just needed to break free and breathe. That isn't to say that the texts are stagnant, rather I felt that something was lost in the antholigised format of chapter and verse, crammed together to save space, especially with something like the proverbs.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">When I was at university we looked at translations in poetry and it was something I enjoyed and so the idea of having a go at translating/ interpreting some of the biblical poetry appealed to me and it also provided a good opportunity to get into the scriptures a bit more.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I started working with the Psalms (which I will get into at a later post as it has proved to be a larger task) but in the mean time planned to look at other texts. The first of these was Song of Songs.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">My intention with SSOS was to try and present the text as it might have been originally as a song or poem, without setting it in chapter and verse and to work from a literal word for word translation of the original Hebrew, referring to other translations for clarification and from that point to try and capture the passion and meaning in the text. There may be mistakes and errors in my interpretations but I wanted to make the translation my own, to get to know the text and primarily to make it something that I understood. If other people happened upon it then I hoped that they would find something in it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I published the book through Amazon for kindle and thought I would see what might happen. My previous books had never really gathered any momentum. A few people had downloaded free copies in promotion or borrow and bought now and again but on the first promotional run of SSOS over 400 copies were downloaded and people continued to buy it. I realised that I had done something that connected with people. It was almost as if it had given me a purpose and calling for my desire to write poetry. It was the first step of an adventure.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We'll see if I come back to that novel one day.</span>DPGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08104075419932118542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413764773345565085.post-60803483846006452582014-07-27T08:19:00.001-07:002014-07-27T08:21:37.103-07:00Besides<br />
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After Inertia I continued to write different things. At the time I was trying to put my energy into another narrative style poem film in the same vain as Inertia but on a larger scale. I continued to write generally but without any real theme in mind. It was these poems that in part came to form Besides.<br />
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During this time life shifted. I moved from Bolton, from living alone and doing a job that had no future for me, to Coventry where I was living with a group of musicians and creatives and arrived with a clean slate on the job front. Not long after I had been there and started to settle in I met a girl who turned my world upside down (in a good way though!) As a result though I no longer felt the urge to write poems around the previous themes of unrequited love, beauty in the mundane, etc. I lost steam on the larger project and felt the need to try and find out where my voice wanted to go next (if that doesn't sound too pretentious). At this point I had released Inertia on Amazon and wanted to draw a line under what I had done up until then and so decided to put together Besides.<br />
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I called it Besides as a bad word play on B-Sides. I saw this book as a collection of poems that didn't have a home anywhere else, like a B Sides album of songs that didn't make it onto the album.<br />
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Some of the poems are a bit more abstract and experimental concrete poems but also some of them have a fun element. My initial hope was that I could release it for free on Amazon to hopefully coax some people into buying Inertia. Unfortunately, I never figured out how to do this properly without somehow breaking the Amazon rules and so I released it anyway and it and it got favourable reviews from people so I am happy.<br />
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So yes, Besides. Check it out at any of the links at the side!!!DPGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08104075419932118542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413764773345565085.post-22897286784279798062014-07-24T00:29:00.002-07:002014-07-24T00:30:48.970-07:00Inertia<br />
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I'm going back a bit but I thought I would start with an introduction to Inertia which was the first book I published.<br />
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Inertia was conceived when I was in my final year of University in 2004. The poetry side of it formed a large part of my final project. At the time I was trying to write a poetry concept album, a sequence of twenty poems that told a story. I already owned a few concept albums and thought that the format would suit a collection of poems. My tutor put me on to a few books that already did this to an extent, Craig Raine's A La Recherche Du Temp Perdu and History: The Home Movie, Ted Hughes' Gaudete and Birthday Letters, Tony Harrison's Film Poems, to name a few.<br />
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I wanted the story to focus on the everyday and mundane and to almost celebrate those things. I was also introduced to Weldon Kees' Robinson poems which were a huge influence on the theme for the poems. If you haven't read these poems then you should look them up. These poems quite beautifully describe the world of the character, Robinson who supposedly signifies urban man.<br />
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Weirdly I also took quite a few influences from comedy shows such as Peep Show, Monkey Trousers, Alan Partridge and Jam. It wasn't trying to write a comedy and it doesn't come through strongly but there is humour to be found, even if it might be a bit dark and weird.<br />
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Inertia ended up as a sequence of 20 poems following it's main character though his day. His day begins waking up and getting ready for work, his journey to work and then the time spent in his office and his attempts to woo the girl he likes in the office. After work he finds himself in a chance romantic encounter, followed by the fallout of his circumstances.<br />
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After graduating I forgot about Inertia but continued writing. I considered sending manuscripts of Inertia to poetry publisher but I knew that it was very difficult to get poetry published and the demand just wasn't there. I thought about it some more and then wondered if it would be possible to make the book into an actual concept album. I didn't know if and how it might work. I had only ever seen CDs of poetry read by some celebrity and backed up with classical music, the kind of CD your gran might buy. This wasn't something I wanted to do. I recorded the Robinson poems by Weldon Kees along with music and they turned out alright so I began to think about recording the Inertia poems. This all happened at a time when the story of Inertia had become my own. I was working in a job that I was bored of and living alone with my own thoughts of loneliness and unfulfilled longing having just embarked on a doomed romance with a girl I had recently met and had fizzled out. I recorded the album in my flat on the outskirts of Bolton in the winter of 2007. The music comprised of looped phrases played on top of each other with other musical embellishments which I thought mirrored the theme of monotony and it's beauty, within the poems. The vocals were filtered to make it sound like a one sided phone conversation or like it was recorded into a dictaphone and was a piece of found recording.<br />
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I was really pleased with the finished album and immediately tried to find a home for it. I managed to self publish the book and audio together at Lulu.com and the audio floated around websites like myspace, soundcloud, bandcamp, etc for a while. This was a bit before e-readers were popular and so there wasn't much take up for it at first.<br />
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I eventually released it through Amazon with a selection of other poems that I wrote around the same time with some joy as ebooks became more popular and accessible, but alas without the audio. However, Inertia recently found it’s place at Noisetrade.com, a great website where customers are invited to pay a tip. Both the ebook and audio book are now available together there in one place, as I always hoped they would be.<br />
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Whenever I go back to Inertia I still feel proud of it as a complete work (which is strange for me after so many years). If you haven't read or listened to it then I hope that this post has peaked your interest and if you have have only either read or listed to it then I hope that you will get to experience it in its fullness.<br />
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For more information and to download either or both book and album visit the links at the side.<br />
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Well, that was Inertia!<br />
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Bye for nowDPGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08104075419932118542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413764773345565085.post-55230306184595515292014-07-22T13:00:00.002-07:002014-07-22T13:01:55.149-07:00I'm back...<br />
It’s been a while since my last post (which now seems quite outdated). I haven’t had much motivation to blog since then and have instead been busying myself with different things. I was amending details on the blog yesterday though and have seen that quite a few people have found their way here which may be down to the fact the blog address is listed as a website in books I have released and on different pages. It might just be coincidence though.<br />
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However, thought that I would try a bit harder. While I can't promise daily rants, opinions and thoughts I will be trying to update more regularly with deetails of what what I am up to and have been up to as well as things that peak my interest.<br />
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Since the last post a lot has happened. I have started to publish independently with Amazon, an independent website called Noisetrade and more recently on the Kobo store. I have put out a few different things with plans for more to come. rather than going into them here, over the next few weeks I will try and add posts recapping on some of the things I have published and am hoping to publish, but you can check them out too in the mean time via the links at the side.<br />
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Hope to see you back here shortly.<br />
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Bye for nowDPGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08104075419932118542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413764773345565085.post-84438540365626252562012-03-05T12:17:00.000-08:002012-03-05T12:17:17.068-08:00eBooks and self publishingThese days it is very easy to self publish and sell copies of books you have written online, and even to have those books available through Amazon. Self publishing sites provide a cheap and accessible means of getting your book into print and you can print according to demand or people can buy a copy of your book directly from the publisher. Most of these self publishing companies also provide distribution to online book sellers such as Amazon and will even give you a free ISBN. The popularity of eReaders and eReader applications for smart phones has also opened up the publishing industry to writers who choose to self publish eBooks and would be writers can now publish an ebook and release it directly through Amazon.<br />
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This is a prospect that I have been excited about for a few years. After finishing university I looked into trying to get some of my poetry published. I have a few poems published in magazines and looked at a few publishers but the bigger publishers have a set quota of books, perhaps 10 or so, they could publish each year, half of which would be books by existing poets<br />
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Prior to these advances the publishing industry appeared to be fairly impenetrable. As a poet you would be expected to get poetry published in poetry magazines to gain some experience and then you might be lucky enough to find a literary agent who supports poetry (most won’t). They then might plug your work to publishing companies, most of whom have a set quota of books they could publish each year, perhaps 10 or so, half of which would be books by existing poets. You might have tried contacting smaller publishers without the aid of an agent but they were likely to have a similar quota to work with and frankly what is the point with a small publisher anyway. With poetry being the lowest selling form of literature, accounting for less than 1 percent of all book sales, you would have had as much luck making your own books in Microsoft publisher and selling them at a car boot sale.<br />
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I think that that self publishing and the eBook especially could what the MP3 did for the world of music. As with MP3s there is a lot of rubbish out there and it is annoying to see such tripe. I have bought a few self published kindle books and only one of them has really been worth it but it is still equally exciting that I was able to scan through the poetry section of the kindle website and find something that I wouldn’t have seen before. It’s just a matter of sifting through some of the badly written poetry and literature written by nutters and the obscure translations of minor literary classics, Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species in German anyone? Unfortunately there does appear to be a lot of rubbish and there is a danger of good books getting buried underneath all the waste and filler.<br />
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Another slightly annoying but also amazing aspect of the eBook is that you can buy a lot of classic literature that is now in the public domain for little or no money at all. It is quite cool that you can buy the complete Sherlock Holmes collection for under £1. However, my current poetry book is listed at just over £1 and so I feel that I have to compete with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which is a little bit annoying but then I still have the opportunity to sell my book along side his. And I am still alive so in a way I am better than him. Cheg on Sir Arthur …<br />
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Overall it is pretty good though. I just think the next step is getting people to buy electronic literature and investigate new books and writers. That means you!!!DPGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08104075419932118542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413764773345565085.post-49340465852266486502011-08-19T14:43:00.000-07:002011-08-19T14:43:03.197-07:00Inertia: A poetry film sequence and other selected poemsHello all,<br />
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Well in the past few weeks I have been busy getting by book out and am now pleased to announce that it is available online at the following stores:<br />
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To buy printed copy, ebook or to download the recorded versions then visit my store at http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/dangilbert10<br />
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or, if you own a kindle or kindle app on your smartphone or tablet then search for Inertia by Daniel Paul Gilbert through your kindle store or online at Amazon at the following link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005HNXN0Y<br />
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I also have a trailer at youtube, see below<br />
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<iframe width="420" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rBVKfgAHBxI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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I have also been busy compiling emails for a book that I am helping my brother Ian write and have started work on my own novel.<br />
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Hoping to compile some more poems for another book soon but for now hope that you will check out Inertia.<br />
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