Just sharing my cover artwork for the new album Circle & Light by synthpop duo Liquid Modern, streaming soon everywhere. It’s a delightful listen, and I hope you check it out.
A poet-robot โฆ a chain-smoking seductress โฆ a dying connoisseur. All of these characters and more make appearances in my new collection of poems and drawings, Plumstuff, out today.
Plumstuff is a reinvention of my out-of-print debut Plum Stuff. It contains 20 revised poems from that collection plus 40 new onesโโโand all-new drawings.
Poems and drawings from Plumstuff have appeared in The Walrus, Rattle, The Saturday Evening Post, The Wall Street Journal, Transition, The Feathertale Review, The New Quarterly, Quarterly West, The Antigonish Review and other outlets.
Here’s what the critics are saying…
“Quirky and fanciful … a wild curiosity shop!” – Broken Pencil
“This is a book for those who truly love words.” โ Cloud Lake Literary
โBursting full in its depths.โ โ Cinnabar Moth
โSit with these poems โฆ give them a 2nd or third go-round. Let them marinate the brain a bit so you can fully savor the flavor.โ โ The Poetry Conversation
โA wonderful collection of poetry and drawings.โ โ Grist
There are many ways to get your hands on Plumstuff…
My online store, The Rolli Shop, ships to every country on earth.
Just letting you know that my childrenโs bedtime story, โThe Bear Under the Bed,โ is now available in the latest issue of Short Circuitโโโand in short story dispensers the world over. I hope you like it. Read it here.
Cheers,
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A while ago, I talked to Bing Crosby – grandson and namesake of the great entertainer – about the abundant skeletons in the Crosby family closet. It’s a dark story – with a hopeful ending. Read itย here.
“Can’t Keep Me Down Now,” a song I co-wrote with Brooklyn’s Doobie Duke Sims, has been selected as the week’s featured single by Sask Music, a Canadian music industry organization. You can listen to the track here.
“Can’t Keep Me Down Now” is from the EP Cahoots, available on Apple Music and other platforms.
I hope you like the song, friends. It pairs well with a hot cup of coffee. โ
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