Thank you, Fliss. Alas I failed to find a publisher, though it very nearly found favour with Penguin; they feared that an anthology on a single theme "even that which is dominating us today" would have "a tough time in the market place" - and hoped I would find somebody "braver" than themselves. I didn't - hence the website.
My 'model' had been Paul Dehn's book "Quake, Quake, Quake - A Leaden Treasury of English Verse", a parody anthology, which had skewered the ghastliness of nuclear weapons, way back in the old, cold war.
It remains a treasure for which it is worthwhile looking out.
I enjoyed your family portrait. Ekphrastic poetry is, I believe, much underrated and I really enjoy attempting it.
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