Robert Priest's Blog: Blogging not logging - Posts Tagged "malcolm-gladwell"

In the past few months two books, Rosa Rose, a book of verses for children about inspirational people and things and a book of adult poetry previously feared darkness have come out. In the midst of touring and publicizing these I've been working with Dundurn press on my epic fantasy series spell crossed. Book 1 the paper sword will be published in July. I'll get the copy edits in a few days and that will be that. Concurrently I've been working on the first two or three chapters of the re-write of book 2, second kiss, in preparation for a deadline in March when I turn it in. Plus I'm going on tour in Ireland the UK and to Paris during the second week of November as a poet and singer-songwriter. (I had a CD out about a year ago called feeling the pinch. You can get it on iTunes.). So I really am at a bit of a nexus. Something that occurs a lot in spell crossed. I'm under one spell for poetry and another for prose and another for songs and I live in the three-way flow. Also I'm a reader of course. The latest book being David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell. Here's my latest Facebook post about it.

During the past couple of years I've been working on the poem for children about the children's March in Birmingham. It's hard to get a lot of information on it. I decided I'm going to have to go there and visit the center. But I just read the most stirring account of it in Malcolm Gladwell's new book David and Goliath. I I'm still writing the poem but in the meantime check out the story as he tells it.