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ISBN 978-1-421465-19-2 |
size : 20.5 cm x 14.8 cm |
201 pages |
Published: August 2010 |
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A humbling development |
A smile at the checkout |
Among the chaos |
As One |
Beyond possible |
Brief respite |
Changing shoes |
Chaos theory |
Competition |
Cuts in cuts out |
Diversity of ideas |
Do the right thing |
Earth Hour |
Failure or success |
Finding yourself |
In sharing |
In the bucket |
Inward Outward |
It is all in this teaspoon |
Just a thought |
Language of the people |
Lines in the sand |
Lonely at the top |
Management Speak |
Mosquito bites |
Mr Gadget Man |
One compliment |
Or does he? |
Questioning yourself |
Raspberry Effect |
Something |
Spur of the moment |
Teething problems |
The basic skills of knowledge |
The beat of a drum |
The connection of music |
The humble clover leaf |
The humble mosquito |
The Raspberry Effect |
The waves of emotions |
The weather people |
The wobbly knee effect |
Through the candlestick holder |
Under her wing |
Understanding values |
Walking behind |
Waves breaking |
What is beautiful? |
What is your rank? |
Where is the egg? |
Which towel is for you? |
With this pen |
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"The Definitive Collection : March 2007 - June 2007 : Volume Eight"
was first published on 23 August 2010.
Its size is approx. 14.8 cm (5 13/16") wide by
21.0 cm (8 5/16") long,
(also known as A5), and 12 mm (1/2") thick.
This volume contains 51 poem titles spread over 201 pages.
What appears below is the introduction from the book:
Introduction
Welcome to the eighth volume of “The
Definitive Collection.” Thank you for choosing this book.
This book is part of a multi-book project. It is the final
project on my journey of creating poetry books. This journey began
in 2003 with my first book, “A nod and a smile.” At the time of
publishing it, I had no idea that such a journey would be
undertaken. I had compiled the book, and had the layout designed by
a company. It was published under my own name, and as far as I was
concerned, that was it.
Little did I know, what would follow. Little did I know, how many
poems that I would subsequently write. Little did I know, how many
people would find value in my first book.
So it was, that almost five years later, I would continue my journey
of creating poetry books. Over the next two years, I would publish
twelve small books, including a slightly revised, reformatted, and
smaller sized version of my first book, “A nod and a smile.” I have
now called them, my small poetry book collection.
To finish off, I am reviewing my entire collection of poetry,
currently over 2700 poems. From mostly unpublished work, I will be
selecting poems worthy of inclusion in this final project. Of
course, not every poem can be selected, so there will be exceptions.
When first starting this project, I decided that the optimum book
would be around 200 pages, both from a cost of production, a
manageable content size, and potentially an interest perspective.
The last point was made along the lines of “the bigger the book, the
easier for the reader to lose interest.”
Initially, I decided to split the collection of poems into blocks of
500, with an expectation that each block would produce enough
content for one book. The majority of my previous works have
emanated from the first 500 poems, and yet, it was still possible to
find enough content for the first volume.
The culling process for subsequent books quickly revealed, that the
original idea of one book for each block of 500 poems, should be
abandoned. It also became clear that several more books would be
needed. In fact, the culling process resulted in 12 volumes being
created. One additional volume will be provided, containing a Poem
Title Index and a Subject Index.
As a general rule, poems over six pages in length were excluded. As
with anything in life, there will be some exceptions to this rule.
The poems in this book are presented in the order in which they were
written. The aim of this book is to touch the reader in such a way,
that the person will want to pause and ponder each poem after
reading it.
Is such an aim achievable? Now that is a question that only you, the
reader, can realistically answer. What I hope is, that for my part, I have given you enough
encouragement and inspiration, to at least think about each poem.
The rest is up to you.
This volume, like the previous four volumes was created from poems
written during a period, when I was writing at least one poem every
day. I did this for over 1000 days. If you have read any of the
previous four volumes, you will know that a large number of poems
were written over this period of time.
Amongst the poems found in this volume, there are two poems written
about mosquitoes, yes mosquitoes. There are also two poems about the
first Earth Hour in 2007. There are poems about magpies, the clover
leaf, and an egg.
There is yet another poem about chaos, as well as poems on blowing
Raspberries, hugging, a candlestick holder, even a teaspoon. Yes,
the variety of poems is diverse.
That is enough from me. It is hoped that you will find what follows
of value, of interest, and worth pausing and pondering.
I now invite you to read Volume Eight of “The Definitive
Collection.”
Gary Dodd
July 2010
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