Friday, August 01, 2025

 

Signs of the Times


I rarely write poetry these days. I haven't stopped but my production rate has dropped. I now average maybe five or six new poems every month. I had a five year splurge in which I wrote a tremendous amount of poetry but that phase seems to be over.

Last year I began a series of poems based on signs that I had seen while wandering about. I photographed these signs and used the wording on them to inspire poems. These poems were published in Borderless Journal, one every month, from March 2024 until June 2025.

I was never sure how many poems would be in the series in total. The answer turns out to be sixteen. The series is done now and all the poems have been collected into one volume, Signs of the Times, which has just been published.

The volume also contains an extra poem called 'Appendages' that has been split into several sections and positioned throughout the book in the appropriate places.

This won't be my last poetry collection but I don't think you can expect too many more of them. One day I will issue a monster collection of all (or almost all) my poems. It will be a huge and unwieldy book, the poetry equivalent of my Million Word Storybook. There's no rush...

Signs of the Times is available in paperback and ebook editions.

# posted by Rhys Hughes @ 3:27 PM
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