Marly Youmans, The Foliate Head (UK: Stanza Press)
 

"The Foliate Head" is out from Stanza Press in the UK; it is a limited edition collection, so won't be available for as long as either my last or my next poetry book. Here's a peep at some poems and also at some of the green man artwork by Welsh artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins: http://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/p/the-foliate-head.html. The book will be available in the US via Amazon, by special order through a bookshop, or by direct order from P. S. Publishing (http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/stanza...ans-1374-p.asp.)

I'm grateful to publisher Pete Crowther for asking for a manuscript of poems, and also for allowing three friends to create the substance and design of the book. It was a very unusual thing for a publisher to do, and we had a grand time. The words were mine, the pictures Clive's, and the book design was by Welsh designer Andrew Wakelin. I'm so glad that Pete Crowther trusted the triumverate to do a good job. As a result, the book should be a rather rare and unusual item.

The Foliate Head is composed of three parts: Powers; The Book of Ystwyth; and The Green World.

Next up: Thaliad, a post-apocalyptic epic poem in blank verse (Montreal: Phoenicia Publishing, with a pub date of November 1st, 2012.)

Sounds wonderful, Marly!

And I'm still telling people about your remarkable novel "A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage," including all my English friends and relatives this summer--not to mention the Upstate New York crowd!

By the way, I can't get your first link to work, so I'm posting it again here--where it worked for me:

http://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/p/t...iate-head.html

All best,
Charlotte

Thanks, Charlotte--

So glad we met! And thank you.

Thanks for posting this news! From success to success. And for sure there will be many, many more.

Hi Janice--

Thanks for the encouragement! As a writer living in a rather out-of-the-way place, I can always use it...

Best to you,
Marly

Most definitely will be reading you soon--I've enjoyed exploring your blogs tonight--was wondering how you landed in Cooperstown (I was born there--grew up in Otsego County and miss those hills and valleys).

Sharon,

I arrived here in the time-honored way of women: by way of a rambling man! My husband is an academic neurologist at Bassett (did you know they have 3rd/4th year med school now? Graduates get Columbia degrees.) We lived here once before, during his internship year.

Years ago when we were living in South Carolina (where I wanted to and thought we would stay), my husband once asked where I would be willing to live. I said: "I would never live north of Cooperstown."

As it turned out, he did not care for his taste of private practice and so we moved back here... It's a beautiful place but far from home.

Glad you came by the blog(s). Only one is really active at the moment, but I may get back to the others when the current judging stint is done.

I love "Fish Mooney!" What a grand conjunction...

By way of a rambling man: I am a little tongue-in-cheek there. My father had itchy feet and dragged me all over. I always wanted to live in one place.