pure-poetry.co.uk
Hello, and welcome to this "new look" site.
It was about time for an overhaul, so this is what I'm doing. Not only was it looking dated, but most of the contents was getting dated too (news articles from 1027, wallpaper from 1976, etc.)
We would still like to welcome you in the familiar fashion into this "palace of poetry", by asking that you take off any footwear you might be wearing, put your feet up, make yourself at home, while we put the kettle on, and get you a nice hot cup of poetry.
And as I usually feel I have to point out, this site predominantly contains poetry by a certain Mr Nick Fisk. Mr Nick Fisk has self-published 5 books under the banner of Pure Poetry, and one other under another banner. He may well publish more of his own work, but the exciting news is, that later this year, this year being 8, with 2000 before it, there may well be a book published by Pure Poetry by someone else! It may not excite you, but it certainly excites me, particularly as this particular bard, we feel, is one of contemporary poetry's best kept secrets, so look out for that!
To your left, you will see bookshelves with "thumbnail" depictions of all the aforementioned books. "Clicking" on each book will allow you to "take it down from the shelf" and read more about it, and also grant you the opportunity to read selected poems from each.
To your right (I feel like a tour guide here), you will find other options, including "other poetry" (which will soon contain some of Nick Fisk's new work), a selection of poems by the notorious "other poets", and, we welcome, again with excitement, the introduction of a new-fangled "new media" section.
The "internet savvy" amongst you are no doubt aware of a popular site known as YouTube. Here, you can watch people being slapped by people with mobile telephones, you can watch people with mobile telephones drive around housing estates at 100mph, and now, you can watch poets read poetry! See the "Video/Audio (new)" section for more details about this exciting proposition.
Also new to this site is the opportunity to sign the guestbook.
As always, you also have the option to buy things - I'm hoping to make this better and more user-friendly as well - you could book a poet to read if this sort of thing is your sort of thing, or you could go away somewhere else.
Finally, as always, I would like to encourage other poets to get in touch. This does happen occasionally, and I always welcome such contact. I would happily put your stuff on this site. If you too can videotape yourself, that'd be cool, and now that I'm hopefully venturing out into publishing other poets, who knows - if I like what you do enough, there's always the chance that might happen too!
Comments from anyone are also always welcome, and if you'd like to be updated with pure-poetry news, etc. just send me a quick email, and I'll add you to the mailing list.
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