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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1234632730/coin-opera-2-fulminares-revenge Nobody told me it would be so much work getting, like, 100 people to pre-order a really awesome book. Turns out the problem is finding the people who are genuinely interested in such a thing.

I'm still loving NaPoWriMo - writing a poem every day for April. Not when I'm actually doing it, of course - I hate it. But it's a wonderful chance to clear out the cupboards. All those half-arsed ideas I've been jotting down as potential poems get a shot at becoming decent poems, and every so often one of them turns out far better than I hoped or expected. At the end of the month, I usually have at least a handful of good efforts, and several more that could hold up with a bit of editing. This year the theme I've been trying to stick to is fakery, hoaxing, palimpsests and illusion. Day 4 was prompted by another poet noting that I managed to

I was really surprised and delighted to go the National Poetry Competition awards ceremony last night and find it full of people I recognised from the London and Norwich poetry scenes. I suppose I shouldn't have been, but somehow I had this image of the event - and the Poetry Society itself - as being to do with a rather more exclusive, older circle. One of my poems was in the 'Highly Commended' category, which meant I had to go up, shake a hand, receive a certificate and go back down again - so I was expecting it to be like my graduation ceremony, an experience I felt very let down by at the time. But no - it was actually quite exciting and