Letter to my children – a quarantine preview

I’m looking forward to sharing a number of videos of poems from my upcoming book Les Feuilles Mortes in the coming weeks, including several from my friends and readers across the world. Here is the first, a letter written in quarantine to my young children.

Les Feuilles Mortes – digital copies available now!

The last couple of weeks have been a bit of a mad flurry of activity as I’ve worked on getting my new book Les Feuilles Mortes together and ready for you to have in your hands. The physical copy should be ready soon to buy from Lulu.com – by the end of May – but you can now buy a digital copy of the book for just $10 AUD via The Consolations of Writing. All your money will go to Tear Australia’s work supporting developing countries to combat COVID-19.

Click here to get your copy, and watch a teaser for the book here. I’m also looking forward to the online book launch, on a date soon to be confirmed. I hope you can join me. It’s been a real community event getting together friends from across the world involved in this project, and I’m excited to share it with you all soon.

From “Autumn Leaves: Tanka for Isolation”

My twin boys turn one
within our garden's walled world,
learn to navigate
and negotiate space as
leaves fall in entrancing swirls.

This poem comes from my upcoming collection “Les Feuilles Mortes”. Stay tuned for more information about the launch, or contact me to join the mailing list.

My new book needs you

Les Feuilles Mortes Cover
Image – Robert Kingdom, “Drawing Near”
Now more than ever we need each other. And we need art that helps us process all the strangeness and loss of this season we’re all in. And so I’d like you to be involved with my new book project. I’m planning a socially distanced book launch for a few months from now. Where you come in as a reader of The Consolations of Writing is that you can get a free advanced digital copy of the book, if you’d be willing to film yourself reading your favourite poem from the collection and be part of a video collage of readers around the world. Interested? Drop me a line in the comments box or via mppullar@gmail.com and I’ll keep you posted as the project develops.

Meanwhile, here’s a preview.