Many,
many thanks to Lorraine for hosting me as a guest on her blog.
My
name is Jenni Wyn Hyatt and I was in my late sixties before I began to write
poetry. I used to submit regularly to the Flash 500 Humour Verse competition and
was absolutely amazed when the first poem I ever submitted was long-listed.
After that, I was long or short-listed on several occasions and finally ‘made
the big time’ when my poem ‘Poor Old Aitch’ was placed second, shortly before
the competition ended. Imagine my awe and sense of achievement when I regularly
saw my name listed alongside those of well-known writers of humorous verse!
It
was this success, along with the publication of some of my serious poems in
magazines for traditional verse such as The
Lyric and The Road Not Taken, a
Journal of Formal Verse, which made me realise that perhaps I could write poems that people would want
to read.
This led, eventually, to my publishing a small collection of poems
through Rowanvale Press, of Cardiff. The collection is entitled Perhaps One Day and contains all the
poems I submitted to the Humour Verse Competition plus a number of serious
poems.
My subjects include childhood memories, Wales (my homeland), war, social
commentary and nature as well as accounts of my personal life, both poignant
and humorous.
Most of the poems are
written using rhyme and metre and some in recognised poetic forms such as the
villanelle, sonnet, triolet etc. There are also occasional pieces of free
verse. All the poems, however, are clear and are accessible to poets and
non-poets alike.
Perhaps One Day is priced at £5.99 and
is available from Amazon, also from the website of Rowanvale Books using the
following link: http://www.rowanvalebooks.com/book/perhaps-one-day
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