Woo, got a book out

Jack Cade · Post by **Jack Cade** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 11:20 am

http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp ... 717453.htm

Proper hardcover book, by me, with a PBS Recommendation to boot (this is a nice thing to have in the poetry world - basically like getting a feature in a bookclub).

No TF poems, but there are character pieces based on old Battle of the Planets characters, the Seven Samurai and the British Avengers, as well as collage-texts from the characters in Pluto, the Urasawa series Yaya recommended to me.

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 3:59 pm

Awesome Jack! Congratulations! I had no idea you were a writer, let alone a poet, and it seems according to the reviews and remarks you're well on your way to being an established voice. Soon as the summer comes and my own text producing monsters have been slayed, I'll definitely have to snap it up.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 11:27 pm

Splendid, good sir! Is it too early to predict the next Poet Laureate of Transfans?

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 10:22 am

Lovely, congrats. Might have to get this.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Wed May 02, 2012 2:52 pm

Congrats man! Not surprised by your success, you certainly have shown yourself on these boards to be quite an adept writer. Didn't know your were a poet. Not easy, that.

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Wed May 02, 2012 5:23 pm

In other words, you were a poet, and Yaya didn't know it. *hides from the barrage of rotting tomatoes*

Jack Cade · Post by **Jack Cade** » Wed May 02, 2012 10:08 pm

Thanks, guys. And no, poetry isn't easy! Makes me tear my hair out. Having a joint launch with a fellow poet sometime in London this month. Will let you know when we have a date!

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Fri May 04, 2012 1:27 pm

Shanti418 wrote:In other words, you were a poet, and Yaya didn't know it. *hides from the barrage of rotting tomatoes*

Ugh.

If language were a sport, becoming a poet would be considered making it to the pros.

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Fri May 04, 2012 2:18 pm

I would see it as much more diverse than that. If language was a sport, poetry would have to be some sport that involved creativity. Skateboarding, Figure Skating, perhaps even football/soccer. A display of personality, a communication of something unsaid, all on a scaffolding of under appreciated technical skill.

FYI, in this rubric, American football: non-fiction (the long slog of building an argument, fussing over small details and word choices, trying to slowly piece things together and layer layers towards a point/victory), Baseball/Cricket: journalism (the repitition, the formula, the long periods of waiting, researching background/tendencies), and Basketball: fiction (a blend of all, no?)

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Fri May 04, 2012 4:00 pm

Shanti418 wrote:I would see it as much more diverse than that. If language was a sport, poetry would have to be some sport that involved creativity. Skateboarding, Figure Skating, perhaps even football/soccer. A display of personality, a communication of something unsaid, all on a scaffolding of under appreciated technical skill.

FYI, in this rubric, American football: non-fiction (the long slog of building an argument, fussing over small details and word choices, trying to slowly piece things together and layer layers towards a point/victory), Baseball/Cricket: journalism (the repitition, the formula, the long periods of waiting, researching background/tendencies), and Basketball: fiction (a blend of all, no?)

Basketball isn't, by turns, violent and boring enough for writing fiction. I need an apt analogy for staring at a screen then slamming my head against the keyboard. Trench warfare, perhaps?

Post by **Best First** » Fri May 04, 2012 4:22 pm

Awesome stuff. Is it ebookable?

And for those with e-readers worth noting that Mr Spencermus has an great little nugget in an anthology you can get on kindle for a very reasonable sum.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Human-Tales-ebo ... 480&sr=8-8

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Fri May 04, 2012 6:24 pm

Jack Cade · Post by **Jack Cade** » Fri May 04, 2012 11:16 pm

£3.20? Pretty bargainous. Better get my Kindle fired up!

My book isn't ebookable yet, although the publisher puts out, imo, the best ebooks of any British poetry publisher in terms to due care and attention to formatting. Even Faber haven't really cracked it yet, but Salt's ones generally work really well, breaking the line properly if you have a large font setting.

Having said that, seven of the poems in the back are in the shape of silhouettes of the Avengers. That's got to be a bugger to format for Kindles.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Sat May 05, 2012 1:20 am

Did you know, good sir, that Scrivener will make an eBook of your work if you ask it to? Not that it's any use to you currently, but I was blown away when I could read my own manuscripts on my eReader.