A Little Poetry Freebie for My Friends

From My Desk

In the past few years, I’ve so enjoyed finding suitable background images for the poems in my posts (and those of my guests) that they started to appear together in a colourful, recurring dream that gave me the idea of creating a little eBook. This month, that dream became a new publication called Dressed & Uploaded. The subtitle, Poem Stories, refers to how I reverse the way I illustrate poems in my posts to comment instead on each poem’s significance to me.

A Small Gift

Dressed & Uploaded is free to download below as my little gift. You are also welcome to share the file if you wish. Many of you will recognise some poems, but I hope you find the presentation and commentary titillating.

Download your free copy in .pdf here. If you are a Mac user, click here for the epub version.

The eBook is also available to purchase through Apple, Kobo, Libreka, OverDrive and Scribd or to borrow from SA Libraries on Libby.

The Launch

This post is Dressed & Uploaded’s official launch, giving me a chance to publicly thank my daughter, Vanessa Warrell, for copy editing and Jude Aquilina, Veronica Cookson and Susan Thrun Willett for writing wonderful promotional words for the inside cover. To give you a taste, this is from Jude —

Dressed and Uploaded speaks from the big fiery heart of a poet whose raw honesty, original imagery and no-holds-barred subject matter make for memorable reading. Lindy Warrell gives voice to the people of our era, to women, to the marginalised and to the forgotten. Lindy’s poetry also speaks to the inner self, especially through this genre of poetic memoir. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom, wrote Aristotle. Lindy’s blog Wattletales and this collection, Dressed and Uploaded, are visually attractive records of our time and valuable additions to South Australia’s poetic wealth. Jude Aquilina

Formal acknowledgements are, of course, in the book itself. Here is the cover poem writ large.

While You’re Here

As this is a short post, I decided to celebrate the launch of Dressed & Uploaded by promoting my other publications, starting with my three chapbooks published in 2018 and 2019 by Ginninderra Press. To read a little more about each, click on the links below. To buy a copy, email me at lindy@wattletales.com.au. The books are $5 each, and postage for a single item is $1.50.

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My poetry collection and debut novel were both self-published in 2022 under my imprint, Wattletales Publishing. The link for A Curious Mix takes you to a record of its wonderful launch party. The Publican’s Daughter link offers several reader reviews.

A Curious Mix in Free Verse. The Publican’s Daughter

You will find these books in the South Australian Libraries collection in paperback and ebook.

You can also purchase both books (or eBooks) from your favourite supplier. Dymocks has priced the paperbacks of A Curious Mix at $29.33 and The Publican’s Daughter at $42.78. Booktopia is closer to the mark at $23.50 and $32.63.

To celebrate the launch of Dressed & Uploaded, I offer A Curious Mix and The Publican’s Daughter at the author price of $20.00 and $25.00, respectively, plus postage — email me at lindy@wattletales.com.au.

Happy Writing — and Reading

Wattletales