Sunday 9 August 2020

Summer Reading

Unfolded for Proof Reading!
 It looks like Blogger is going to go modern. It's all very well but I'll need to get to grips with a new interface which will take time! Today's photograph wouldn't move to the centre until I added a caption. It was also very large so obviously all that is changing.

The proof for Unfolded arrived a few days ago. I put some quiet time aside and read through it very carefully so I hope that I didn't leave any errors. I also got my husband to proof read it. He's a very good proof reader, but not so hot on poetry, but between us I think we sorted everything out. There were only some miniscule things to change like putting in italics, changing commas, etc.

I've been reading some wonderful poetry pamphlets: Cyanic Pollens by Isabel Galleymore, not only lovely poetry but another beautiful publication by Guillemot Press. The back cover is stunning. The Girl Who Cried by Charlotte Gann I read through twice in one sitting and was completely enthralled. It is a powerful but gentle book and I loved it. The third pamphlet I've just read was Navigations by Nancy Campbell. Nancy was the Canal Laureate last year and I heard her read at the launch of this pamphlet. Well, after that reading, I couldn't resist ordering a copy from Happenstance. I've managed to read a lot during lockdown but if my bookshelves were groaning before, they are now positively bulging. The good thing is that I've had time to clean the shelves of years of dust!

Is Venice shrinking?

Is Venice shrinking?