For breakfast I eat up my vowels, my a e i o u, to which I add from consonants a fricative or two;
After that I move my bowels then write as poets do, and frequently am quite surprised to feel a trill come through.

Monday, 21 March 2011

Now that is what I call a self-publishing success story!

Toyo Shibata's self-published anthology, Don't Lose Heart, sells 1.5m copies:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/26/japanese-woman-bestselling-poet-99

A little bit of Turkish: Aslan (Lion)
Her gönülde bir aslan yatar.
In every heart there lies a lion.
Posted by Köy Deli at 12:48
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