The Spoons That Are My Ears!

Why did I choose such an unpopular literary form as prose poetry for the first book? Mainly because I wanted a test run, to examine whether the production standards were good enough, and I mean internal formatting as well as the physical object itself. I took great care with the internal design, having learned a lot about compositing. I now know what kerning is, and how to optimise leading, and how to exert widow and orphan control, which sounds dodgy but is absolutely vital in making a book look professional as opposed to self-published.

And so the publishing venture begins. I hope it won't fizzle out. I intend to do my very best

As for the content of this book... I am aware that no one reads prose poetry. Even people who read normal poetry (and there aren't many of those) hardly ever read prose poetry. It's the most obscure of the imaginary forms. But my prose poems are also speculative flash fictions. Let's call them fictive meditations.

Kafka was a master of the form, as was Pessoa, Brautigan, Calvino (of course): they have all inspired and influenced me, which doesn't mean I regard myself as equal to them...