Re: Spring's Beacon / Margaret Deland

[Will Dockery]

Michael Pendragon wrote:
> Peter J Ross wrote:
>
> > The woman who brought us cows coated in pigeon droppings is now having
> > a go at trees. What do we learn about trees here?
>
> > 1. Trees can walk! ("Through" implies motion.)
>
> No, stupid, it implies "throughout."

Exactly.

> > 2. Trees can fly! (They stand "in the air".)
>
> They stand in the air, stupid -- not the sky.

What he said.

> > Margaret Deland seems to have been to verse what Amanda Ros was to the
> > novel. I'm surprised that her [poetry] didn't
> > have a similar cult following.

Give the girl time... heh.

> I'd take her poetry over yours any day. Btw, ever get anything published
> yet?

No, PJR has apparently contented himself with Usenet for the last decade or
two.

And, as for my publishing history, I began publishing chapbooks in the small
press back in 1983, and continued this through 1995 or so, by that point
editing for other small publishers as well as creating my own work.

Since 1998 I have published poetry and a monthly column in the local Arts &
Entertainment magazine Playgrounds:

http://www.playgroundsmag.com

A few other links on my poetry and publishing history:

http://www.megalextoria.com/forum2/index.php?t=msg&goto=123097&

From The Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999
Entry on Will Dockery

http://www.bailsprojects.com/
(S(2eibyo45fkrblqiajoj2ygqz))/whoswho.aspx?mode=AtoZsearch&a
mp;id=WILLIAM+DOCKERY

DOCKERY, WILL [small press]

Name and vital stats
DOCKERY, WILLIAM (publisher; editor; writer; artist)
RICK HOWE
Covers (pen/) 1991 > 91
CROSS CURRENTS~ (pen/) 1991 > 91

WILLIAM DOCKERY
DEMON HOUSE THEATRE~ (publ/ed/wr/pen/ink/) c1990 > 90
GEON~ (publ/ed/wr/pen/ink/) c1990

I was listed as an Editor and had a poem published in the 1995 edition of
Poet's Market, also:

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/will-dockery/7/6a3/a73

I was published in the 1995 Poet's Market hardback ISBN Q-89879-677-6
Reference Poetry (and other years but I don't have those volumes on my
knee), Page 248, with a verse from one of my poems as an example of the type
of poetry the Publisher was looking for, as "William Dockery", still a few
months away from officially becoming "Will" in Summer 1995, and also was
listed as Editor of the publication.

Google Books does have a scan of the entry:

1995 Poet's Market: Where & How to Publish Your Poetry - Page 248

books.google.com/books?isbn=0898796776

Christine Martin - 1994 - Snippet view - More editions
As a sample the publisher selected these lines by William Dockery:

Sassanna was painting the back porch,
in the early afternoon...

---
There's more, but that's a sampling of my credebtials as a published writer
and poet.

And so it goes... and goes...

> Today on The Penny Blog:
> Spring's Beacon, by Margaret Deland
>
> Through the misty woodlands bare,
> By the meadows brown and dead,
> In the damp and chilly air,
> Stand the maples tipped with red
> [...]
>
> http://gdancesbetty.blogspot.ca/2014/03/springs-beacon-deland.html