Meet Martin Shone, Sublime Poet and Thinker …

Diane Denton, author of Without the Veil Between, Anne Bronte, asked me if I would like to be interviewed for her blog and of course I said yes please!

Hope you enjoy reading 🙂

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… who settles upon all things.

In my budding effort to open my blog to host others, today I am featuring Martin Shone, intuitive writer of poetry and prose, profound observationalist and thinker.

Martin lives in the UK and has three grown-up children and a four-year-old granddaughter. By day he works as a school cleaner where his mop and bucket are his tools, but in the evening he swaps those for his keyboard. He’s had various other jobs including Postman, Egg Packer, Security Guard, Soldier, Painter & Decorator, Retail Assistant, and General Dog’s Body, amongst other things. Fun fact: Considering he doesn’t own a TV or listen to the radio very often, he once applied to have a go at reading his poetry on the TV show Britain’s Got Talent. He didn’t get very far though, not even passing the first stage; nerves got the better of him and…

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Being Human: My second book of little thoughts is on sale now :)

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Hello everyone, it is a very happy day today. I took delivery of my new collection of little thoughts, which includes …

If a butterfly can change the weather
then our smiles can change the world

Deep in the twin souls of one
is where shadows go to become the sun

Freedom comes from loving what is

The book is available to buy here at Lulu.com where you’ll also find my first book, Silence Happens, which includes …

As a leaf falls, know this Earth is not ours

When in pain, think of the reason
for this could be the cure

Skin talks in colour
when it should talk in love

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Thank you all for visiting and following my blog. You are all very much appreciated and if you want to read more about me, please click here to read my interview with a journalist from the biggest-selling regional evening newspaper in Britain.

Thank you! 😀

Publication news and a little something else!

First off, I’ve had a micropoem about a kingfisher published in the May/June edition of the Shropshire magazine “yattar yattar”. It’s a print publication but also available to read online here It is on page 141 and they have added a nice picture of a kingfisher 🙂

OK, here’s the little something else 🙂

My local newspaper is doing a full-page spread about me, my poetry and my upcoming new book of Little Thoughts (hoping to have it on sale before the end of May). I shall be in this Saturday’s (16th May 2015) Weekend supplement 🙂

I had a telephone interview with them last night and today, at the school where I work as a cleaner, I had a photo shoot!

The paper is called the Express & Star and it is the biggest-selling regional evening newspaper in Britain, with a readership of over a million! Blimey 🙂

You can read the article here 🙂

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Apologies for not writing much lately. I’ve not been well.