Nancy's Poetry Book

How do you get a copy of Nancy Ellen McLennan's book of poems?

 Email the publisher - bphpublishing@gmail.com - to request one and they will help you to organize your purchase.  They will need your mailing address.

How do you pay for the book?

$15 - hand delivered in Western Manitoba 

$17.50 - by Canada Post, within Canada 

$20 - by regular mail, world-wide CAD

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Intonation in the Poems

 Many of the  poems in Finding Strength, a collection of turn-of-the-century poems, were heard and spilled from the magical and invisible inner mind audio player onto the page or keyboard.  A tone of voice comes with intensity, or in a soothing murmur. 

This subset of poems, as listed in the afterward of the book, have a particular intonation and have been read here, in spoken word files.

Punch Out the Boys

Stripping Dignity

Depths to Depths

Deliver Me

Just a Little Bad

The Manly Thrill

 

Spoken Word for Rhythm

This subset Finding Strength - a collection of turn-of-the-century poems, represents poems that have inescapable rhythm.  Sometimes there is rhyme, but the rhythm is front and centre.

In the afterward of my book of poems, I listed seven that I felt came to me with a rhythm.  I have read them onto audio files so you can listen to them, and get a sense of how I felt the rhythm when they were written.

Away Away

 Certain Sense of Love

Deny Spell Cast

Pretense

The Possibilities

The Impossibility

Fond Farewell at Atlantic Dawn 

 

 

Turn-of-the-century Poetry - ePub file

 I have finally created a book of my poems.

A hard copy will be available within a few weeks, but in the mean time, people who enjoy e-readers can find my collection here:  Finding Strength - A collection of turn-of-the-century poems.

The link is at Open Library.  I uploaded the downloadable ePub file which works for any e-reader apps on phones, kindles, kobos, pc's etc.  Open Library automatically offers other version, all derived from the original file I uploaded.  Some of them are pretty clunky.  Use the e-pub.  Hard copy will be out before March 1.

Who I Am

Nestling and rejigging is a documented mental health tool.  My poems sit safely in the database but also there are a few big binders in hard copy.  This week I found a craft envelope with no label and spilled out a collection of 45 poems, one per page, that had been submitted to a literary critic and on the front poem was scrawled in black ink - "nancy - these are great poems  enuff to be publishable (undecipherable word), signature, exclamation point".  That was in 2009.  Today I went through the set,  one by one and agree.  I didn't get bored going through them, but then reading your own poems is like mirror gawking and reliving.  I don't spend a lot of time back there - the poems are what save me from reliving my choices over and over.  I am a forward living person.  That said, here is one that rather punctuates that thought.  It isn't the greatest of the batch - but not the oddest either.  Working title of the collection is "Finding Strength in Poetry", because after reading these 45, I feel super empowered!  Enjoy this one.  I will post a few more as I move through this .pdf to vanity press process.  I have a feeling it will be interactive multi-media, because I like that stuff too.  Today is a good day.