Work out, write up and read through

Amazingly, the editing is working out really well. With significant time and distance between the events that shaped those poems and the present, I am now able to add shape, clarity, and reveal exactly what I was thinking and feeling at that time, which many of the original poems only ever hinted at. Thanks to Da Bomb for all her help. There's a grand total of 378 pieces, mostly poetry, with a few pieces of prose poetry and flash fiction. I reckon that about a third to a half need some form of editing (poems written from 2005 onwards have been in much better shape from the get-go, as I had taken the time to craft them). That editing will often involve total rewrites. A few of these poems will not be edited or rewritten, if I feel the message within is not worth voicing.

Finished reading: 'Birding Babylon', based on the blog of the Iraqi-based squaddie cum bird watcher from Connecticut, as well as Craig Murray's 'Murder in Samarkand'. On the list of half-finished books to tackle next are Philippe Sands' 'Lawless World', Flann O'Brien's 'The Third Policeman' and Olivia Judson's 'Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation'. Will I finish all three before I return to work? Will I bugger.