A poetry anthology about life and love presented in text and audio book form. The Freeze Frame project brings together six international poets, each with their own vision of what would appear in the static frame if we capture the flow of our ceaseless contemporary narrative. With an hour of free audio the reader may experience the full presence and intention of the poets on their Kindle or other e-reader device. Whether you are seeking an inspirational quote or a cutting edge intellectual concept, Freeze Frame is a unique collection of short poems allowing you to step aside and perhaps hit the pause button of your own rushing life. We are born without language into a world of tears, mystery, sounds, shapes, light and dark. Slowly words begin to allow us individual expression. For the poet, this process never stops. The quest for words with which to capture the sound of wind in trees, an echo on a lonely city street, an unexpected jolt of joy and on and on is the quest and frustration of the poet. Whether it is the nuance of a relationship or the clatter of a factory machine, we seek to hold them so that they may be seen, maybe for just long enough to make a little more sense of them. By sense of course, I mean perhaps beauty, pathos, symmetry and on through an infinity of inadequate dictionaries. Freeze Frame is a project arising from my own experience as a poet. We live in a multi-channel world. Poetry is no longer a mainstream medium and we should not be surprised at this. Our lives are dominated by work and survival. We can click on any film we wish to watch, or hear any song that was that was ever composed. So what could poetry do that was special?My response was that it could provide a tiny pause in the great evolving video of our time. Perhaps it was worth freezing the frame. I invited five other writers to contribute to this collection. The great thing about other poets is that they are not me. They are free of my own influences and prejudices. The internet has allowed contacts and cross pollinations that would never have been possible previously. Out there in the ether there are the images, the metaphors, the juxtapositions and the rhythms that say just a little more than the words alone. I thank all of them for their preparedness to join this mission.

Freeze Frame

ALL BOOKS IN SERIES ON CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN TO KEEP YOU READiNG THROUGH THE CRISIS. Oscar Sparrow is the Poet Lorry-Park. A collection of poems from the front-line of urban life, the cabs of lorries and the bluebell woods of mortality. Born in 1949 as the sonic boom of jets and babies began to draw a new world map of umbilical vapour trails, Oscar was brought up on cod liver oil and National Health orange juice. As the colour red leached its way out of the map of the British Empire, Oscar attended a die-hard Church school designed to create noble savages to serve what was left of the savage Nobles. The Eleven Plus exam revealed that he could not even count to eleven and he became a mechanic, labourer, truck driver, boxer and poet. He read Wordsworth and Ford Cortina manuals in a lorry cab near both Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Eventually he found himself in London where he joined the Metropolitan Police. Car chases and riots followed but he did not take it personally. He spent his spare time touring the Art galleries, singing Piaf and learning French and Italian. Eventually The Authorities fell for the con and gave him a desk job in the Art department of Interpol London at Scotland Yard. Throughout all this time he was a would be poet, short story writer and novelist.

I Threw a Stone

CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN ON ALL OF OSCAR'S BOOKS TO HELP KEEP YOU READING THROUGH THE CRISIS. What could link a webcam girl, a cross-dressing police chief and an escaped ferret?A British nation torn by Brexit staggers on. Frankie Ferret, a pre-school children's TV celebrity escapes into sewers of London and surely is dead. The people unite in grief. Police Chiefs, counselors and politicos stand in tear-stained sincerity with the common people. Viktor Pinupskin of Russia offers a genetically-modified bear cub with his own face as a substitute. Internet bots urge a vote and attempt to sway the masses. Chaos and panic threaten to destroy the economy. Into the mix steps young police inspector, Crispin Bissel. His mission is to lead the search and target PR for the cops. His ex-girlfriend, Selena Fontesse, is a mature ex-webcam girl specializing in veggie porn. She has the looks and the bosom to comfort a people broken by sorrow. Could love be re-kindled over an open drain? Could Frankie be alive? Could a billionaire, a hot air balloon, a pop star, and a staring messianic child, bring happiness back to a population in despair? And what if the big plans were to fail?What if there were a cover up?A deplorable basket-case of a book. All right thinking people should be offended. Cross dressing vegan cannibals will love this story. There's no safe space on campus when a ferret like Frankie gets into the pipes. A tender love story, an outrageous unfair satire, an exposé of the media-cult whirl in which we live, where news, fake news and spin are the currencies of coercion. Buy this book and forgive yourself for laughing. It's not incorrect if you didn't mean to.

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