Canongate Books

Hello Canongate, 

Thanks for the add, y'all!

davIdiot RAw.

"If you can't beat em: Poem.
"

Dear Canongate,

Thank you for joining me at my new MySpace site, FINISHING TOUCHES MARY (http://www. myspace. com/finishing_touches_mary).


Having you with me is indeed a pleasure.


Since time immortal, humans have found various ways to communicate. With the advent of writing, civilization as a whole has grown and expanded in knowledge. If it were not for the written word, we would know so little of the various cultures before us, and it is imperative that we too, leave our ‘footprint in the sand’ of history today, enabling future generations to know and understand us.


I do hope you and your friends will visit me at my site, where I feature some of the most celebrated, avante garde artists, producers, and writers of the 20th and 21st centuries.


So please ensure you peruse some of our forthcoming videos, blogs and bulletins, as I am certain you will be poised to endorse them as well.


All my personal best,

Mary

Thanks!

Thanks for adding me to your friends list. If you're ever in need of a digital illustrator and you like the look of my work, do get in touch. I'd be thrilled to hear from you.


All the best,
Chris Butler.


Illustrator for the Quantum Tarot.

To be published by Kunati Books. September 2008.

After you've finished here, you may like to hear this lay/poem-come-song on myspace.com/walkaboutsverse -

2 of 230, walkaboutsverse.741.com: WALKABOUT WITH MY PEN

Once drove an old sedan, up north,
From a place in Sydney to Cairns;
Then to Kuranda I went forth,
By train, to look without set plans.


I browsed through the trendy market,
With fresh fruits of tropical kind;
Walked to the creek through lush thicket -
Nature’s hand giving peace of mind.


I dined in a scenic cafe;
Then, outside, as I wrote for yen,
Some passing Kooris called-out: “Hey,
You go walkabout with your pen.
”

Request or question, I don’t know -
Assured voices, elderly men.

That’s now several years ago,
And I’ve seen the world - with my pen.


(C) David Franks 2003

Thank you so kindly for the add. - Jim - Road Hunter...the end begins in the land between the rivers...

After you've finished here, you may wish to hear this, on myspace -

230 of 230, walkaboutsverse.741.com: AS GOSPELLERS HAVE SAID/CHRISTMAS SUNG SIMPLY

As gospellers have said,
Beneath signalling skies,
On land dusty to tread,
A trough in a stable
Was the strawy first-bed
Of a divine baby -
The forgiving Godhead.


A season for new hope -
There then and here now;
The yuletide of goodwill -
There then and here now.


In respect of this chance,
Beneath bright or dark skies,
Faith’s the star that we glance
Attending Christ’s churches
And trying to enhance,
With singing and ritual,
Our God-loving stance.


A...

(C) David Franks 2003

It is cool to know Canongate are from my hometown, I love to read loads of stuff from your lists new and old, it's all good, one day I hope to join them, Jx

thanks for that...pleased too meet you

I raise a glass, pour my drink over my eyes, down my face, onto my shirt..