Out with the old, in with the new.

It is one year since the publication of my first book, “46 Contemporary Poems in Various Styles”.

It’s been a year of sketchbooks, keeping my Twitter / X page active, as a place to promote my book and my art. One might say it’s been a year of promotions. But it’s also been a year, at least the last few months, of starting my second book. And this I have done.

So, I’m thinking the New Year is going to be in need of a new blog. The blog you are reading now is totally public. The new blog won’t be public for a while yet.

All text and photographs copyright ian gordon craig.

My first book's reception.

 

I personally regard my first book as the most important thing I’ve ever created. In my own opinion, my artworks aren’t always as successful in achieving what I was trying to say. I like to think that those persons I especially wanted to read it, did so. Little else matters. Certainly not any hopes of commercial enterprise.

The reception was positive, albeit at the same time rather silent in some quarters close to home. If you actually knew me in the real world, between 2006 and 2020, you would have totally “got” it. Feedback from those who have “known” me via the internet in more recent times, has been positive. Those who had formed opinions of me over many, many years, may have found it harder to assimilate and comment upon. I understand that. C’est la vie.

I am now intending on a second book, either 46 short stories or (more likely), the novel I’ve been toying with for years. Art is now taking a back seat called sketchbook, rather than canvas and exhibitions.


All text & artwork copyright ian gordon craig.