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December 29th 2011
Thank you
With regard to the recent e-mail scam where some as-yet unknown person has been asking our friends to send money, we would like to thank our friends who were willing to help, but would like to make it clear that we have not been to Spain and had no knowledge that this entirely ficticious message was circulated.
November 27th 2011
Competition winners announced!
Take a look at the Competition page to see this year's Hastings International Poetry Competition Winners!
Please Enclose S.A.E.
October 11th 2011
First Time Edition 61
In this issue I have been able to thank some of the magazine's loyal and constant support over many years. I have also included tributes to our soldiers abroad and a page of poets who have published their latest collections.
When asked by FIRST TIME poets on how to develop their skills I have always offered the following advice:-
1. Read other poets' work, the masters, the modernists, the up and coming poets (FIRST TIME) and remember one day what you write today will be history tomorrow.
2. Keep paper and pen handy as the chance remark can send your mind spinning and send you off to write a masterpiece.
3. Attend as many readings and festivals as possible and perform your work at every opportunity. Don't be shy. Be confident. If you have written it you will want it to be read or heard.
Over the years editing FIRST TIME I have made many good friends and I always enjoy their successes especially when I hear that their work is being appreciated - whether it be that they have been published or have been reading their work to an appreciative audience. The old adage that 'a wheelbarrow is no good unless you push it' has always been my driving force.
In the last issue of FIRST TIME I had asked on behalf of my daughter when younger, "What is a Poet, Mum?" and I have published some of the replies from the Isle of Wight to Baltimore, USA. If you fall into any of these categories then you are, in my opinion at least, halfway to solving an age old question.
With winter fast approaching and the nights drawing in I am reminded of the film ' A Man For All Seasons', and I ask myself why not 'A Poet For All Seasons'? Our work, after all, reflects our moods throughout the year and we cannot give ourselves any excuses not to write during the dark months ahead. Therefore I look forward to receiving your work for Spring 2012.
By the time you read this the competition will have been judged and the results prepared for the Spring Issue, and the snowdrops will be leading the charge towards spring, so may I wish you all a peaceful Christmas and a productive New Year.
Josephine Austin
FIRST TIME Edition 61 is now available from Josephine.
October 11th 2011
Poems invited for Edition 62!
Poems are invited for Edition 62.
Send to:
J Austin
The Snoring Cat
194 Downs Road
Hastings
East Sussex
TN34 2DZ
Please Enclose S.A.E.
October 11th 2011
She Ate All The Forget-Me-Nots
She Ate All The Forget-Me-Nots: Collected Works 1970-2011 by Josephine Austin is now available from Josephine, priced £6.00.
April 2nd 2011
Procreating Poets
I have had a short run of "Procreating Poets" printed If you wish to purchase send cheque to J.Austin £3.00 per copy.
"Blue Speak " is still available from "First Time" address for £6.00 per copy.
December 13th 2010
New Release!
In March / April 2011 Josephine Austin's new collection of poetry, 'She Ate All The Forget-Me-Nots', will be available from the following address, priced at £6.50.
First Time Publications
'The Snoring Cat'
194 Downs Road
Hastings
East Sussex
TN34 2DZ
November 13th 2010
Competition Winners Announced!
Please see the Competition page for more information.
June 9th 2009
IMPORTANT NOTE
Due to postal problems please be sure to send all entries or correspondence only to Josephine at her current address:
"The Snoring Cat"
194 Downs Road
Hastings
East Sussex
TN34 2DZ
and not to the former Marianne Park address.
Thank you
-- Josephine
May 23rd 2008
Josephine's News Update!
There are still a few libraries left in the country which do not hold copies of "FIRST TIME" so may I ask that next time you are at your local library you respectfully ask them, "Why not?". As you know they are available from my address. If The Poetry Library in London and the Poetry Society can hold them, why not your library!!!!
One more thing "First Time" is not just for first time poets but for all poets, published or unpublished. Order a back copy and read for yourself.
Finally, the world needs poetry and never more than at present so don't let the world down and let us help keep the world sane.
Josephine Austin.
©: Copyright Josephine Austin 2003
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