In may i send off three of my poems to a anthology poetry contest and received notification back they wanted to publish one honestly i had not expected them to publish the ironic England i love this Republic in a collection of jubilee poems and they did not instead it was the one hailed by forum poster as the waste land in ten lines the watch the road http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/watch-the-road/ poem with its images of decline decay and" no metaphor of ship wreck sea hating and depressing " but oddly they called it "untitled watch" and wanted me to buy a lot of copies of the anthology to get it published so it was vanity publishing after all
looking back even on my poems of 2009-2011 in my own book http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=christopher+lantern+his+midnight+name+&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Achristopher+lantern+his+midnight+name+&ajr=0 i find that old stuff pretty old fashioned and trite compared to my latest work but keeping the best stuff to myself latest about a fight beyond a knight and a future astronaut " lost spaceman, Dome and a million shades" in a city that is alternating between 21st century and medieval
