My Book

For the last seven years the title An Abbreviated Mass buzzed about my cranial hive. It found itself scribbled onto a page of my Poetic Scraps (idea notebook). I played with its conception and decided my first foray into “self-publishing” would be bits of poetry and collage (scraps of paper here, a sponge of ink there, a few stickers too. The end result was a poetique junk journal/album with seventeen poems. I compiled two variations of the poetry collections just in time for the Christmas Bizarre at work. I had readers but no one wanted to take it home. However,there were people who gave me kudos. I guess it wasn’t a total loss.

I decided to look into self-publishing an actual collection of my poetry. I eventually stumbled on a printer that would prove to be newbie friendly.

I had the title but what poems do I choose? What exactly was my theme? I played with it a little. Long story short my writing and compiling journey lasted about two or three years, I lost track. I finished my book in July, so I could feature it on my table at an art fair in August…

My poems dive into what little writing process I do have. I attempt to paint pictures with my words some tie into space like my poems: Mangata (which I wrote in response to an instagram prompt) and Adrift. Mangata refers to the moon’s reflection on the water.

Some poems are observational, nature, paradoxical and anecdotal. There are one-liners and haikus too. Some of my poems I wrote twenty-ish years ago 😯. While other poems have been written as recently as five years ago or so. Isn’t it funny how if you’ve been a writer or an artist for a while you eventually develop an archive?!

Under every title is my little scribbled line that I use in my poetique scrap notebooks to separate new lines and ideas. I wanted to add this little flourish to make it more personalized.

My book An Abbreviated Mass was featured at my table on Saturday August 23 at the Plymouth Unfair.