Here’s a short poem of mine about publishing:
BOOK LAUNCH BLUES
or
The Unconditional Love of an Author
They say that a book’s like a baby:
conception, gestation, release.
But you uncork a storm
when a baby is born
and when most books come out,
though their authors might shout,
the silence, you’ll find,
can be cut like a cord.
And yet you can’t stay unattached.
The all-but-stillborn’s still been born.
If you don’t love them, no one will,
and after all they’re yours.
They always will be yours.
At times, besides
– small pause for cough –
the wider world can bugger off.
Haydn Middleton 2024
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