[marly youmans]

"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.)

[Charlotte Innes]

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

[marly youmans]

Thanks, Charlotte--

So glad we met! And thank you.

[Janice D. Soderling]

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

[marly youmans]

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

[Sharon Fish Mooney]

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).

[marly youmans]

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...

[marly youmans]

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.