Deborah O'Toole
Deborah O'Toole posted an updateabout 2 years ago
about 2 years ago
"Torn Bits & Pieces" was released by Club Lighthouse Publishing yesterday. The book of poetry is now available in electronic format at the publisher's website, with the paperback edition to follow in the coming weeks. I've never thought of myself as a poet. I'm a fiction writer, first and foremost. I'm not one to follow guidelines well, so the particulars and accepted standards of poetry never appealed to me. However, there was a period during my 20s when I churned out quite a few poems. I shelved them for a number of years, being of the opinion that the collective verses were nothing more than the ramblings of an angst-ridden youth. My thoughts were very dark in those days.   Some of the poems are more recent, primarily in relation to my fiction novels. For example, the eight-lined "Collective Obsessions" is the same-named counterpart for the Collective Obsessions Saga (by yours truly writing as Deidre Dalton), while several are the result of a fictional character found in "Bloodlust" (book #2 of the Bloodline Trilogy writing as Deidre Dalton).   My "poetry" does not follow the standards in assembly by any measure. I have not sought advice or censure from professional poets, nor have I tidied the language in the poems.   No, my work in "Torn Bits & Pieces" does not follow the well-known standards of prose. It's just what it is, without apology and without a false sense of ego or entitlement. https://clublighthousepublishing.com/productPage/Details/612 https://deborahotoole.com/poetry.htm

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