I’m thrilled to have Marjorie, M. J. Mallon, here today to share her latest release,
BLURB
A compilation of sensual, love and relationship poems. Quirky, unusual and evocative.
Shh, Purely Poetry is a collection of poetic pieces about love, sensuality and relationships with sections entitled: love as fuel, (food and coffee love,) the summer and winter of love, strangers in love, quirky aspects and nature as sensuality.
Inspired in part by daily prompt poems written for the 365poetrypromptchallenge, observations of places, people and my travels.
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MY REVIEW
A loving collection of poetry that delicately weaves in relationships at many stages. Many are sensual, full of texture and images, and some offer unique takes on human interaction. Here are a few beautiful passages: “The Sweetness/The longing/Each kiss deeper/different and the same/Like I belonged to more than him/Like I belonged to the poetry.”—Dining on Poetry, “…beautiful calligraphy to highlight/tiny ink splodges to add character/tear drops to remind me of sad days.”—Love Hidden In the Margin, and “She is fair and I am dark/Slight and I am robust/We fill our together/completing our silhouettes.”—Silhouettes. “Shh, Purely Poetry” is meant to be savored more than once by lovers of sensuous and thoughtful poems.
AUTHOR BIO
M J Mallon was born in Lion city, Singapore, a passionate Scorpio with the Chinese Zodiac sign of a lucky rabbit. MJ spent her early childhood in Hong Kong and her teen years in Edinburgh, enthralled by her parents’ stories of living and working overseas. Her experiences sparked her current desire to travel and see the world from her two favourite places, Edinburgh and Portugal. She often returns to her old home in Cambridge, the inspiration for her YA Fantasy series, The Curse of Time.
Standing by the world famous Corpus Christi Clock in Cambridge, watching it in awe, she ponders what might happen next!
MJ loves to write magical stories, sprinkling them with a liberal dollop of extraordinarily imaginative magic!
Next Chapter Publishing YA fantasy series
Bloodstone – The Curse of Time Book 1
And the 2nd in the series
Golden Healer – The Curse of Time Book 2
Her writing credits include paranormal, best-selling horror, supernatural short stories, flash fiction, poetry, pandemic inspired poetry and best-selling anthologies. Poetry/flash collections include Lockdown Innit, Mr. Sagittarius Poetry & Prose, The Hedge Witch And The Musical Poet and Do What You Love!
Her eclectic blog shares her love of reading, reviewing, writing, poetry, photography and travel: https://mjmallon.com/
VISIT MJ’s SOCIAL MEDIA SITES:
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Thank you so much Denise. Woke up to being #2 on hot new relases Amazon UK so have a good feeling about this one! Appreciate your kind support. The wonderful review you wrote. Hope you have a lovely day. MARJE X
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Congratulations, Marje!
Many thanks Liz. x
You’re welcome, Marje.
Congrats, Marje 🙂 That is a good feeling, and I’m sure it will do well! Happy to spread the word. Xo
Thank you Denise. Fingers and toes crossed! Lol
Lovely review, Denise. Congratulations, Marjorie!
Thank you, Joy 🙂 I enjoyed it. Xo
Thank you Joy and thank you to Denise for reading and reviewing and featuring me on her blog. 🙂
Congratulations to Marje on that wonderful review.
Thank you Craig, a different collection for me, but seems to be well received. Kind of Denise to read and review. So appreciate it. <3
Thanks, Craig 🙂 A good collection.
Great review, Denise! Thank you for the introduction to this mighty fine book of poetry.
Thank you, Timothy. Happy to be sharing it!
Thank you for your kind comment. Lovely of Denise to introduce my work to new potential readers. I write poetry, ya fiction and multi genre short stories.
Congratulations to Marje on the wonderful review! Sharing to help spread the word.
Thanks, Liz. Your support is appreciated 🙂
You’re welcome, Denise.
Who could not click through to a book with that cover? Kudos, Marje!
It is such a gorgeous cover, Jacqui :] Hard to resist.
Thank you Jacqui, very pleased how the cover turned out! 🙂
Mallon’s poetry is so sensual. Congrats to her on this latest collection, and thanks for sharing your review, Denise!
It is a sensual collection, Priscilla. Happy to share it
Thank you Priscilla so kind to say and many thanks for the congrats. Denise’s review is fabulous. 🙂
I’ve seen some lovely reviews of this collection, Denise, and yours was the icing on the cake. I just picked up the book and look forward to jumping in. Congrats to Marje on the awesome review. 🙂
Yes, it is getting some great feedback. I’m a fan of that icing… lol. Happy reading, Diana!
So delighted to hear Diana. Many thanks for that and to Denise’s kind review for encouraging you to dive in! 🙂
You’re welcome!
How wonderful to see Marge’s latest book of poetry here with a superb review.
Thanks, Darlene 🙂 Another good one from Marje.
Hi Darlene, many thanks I am so chuffed! 🙂
Sounds like a lovely read. Love the cover.
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The cover is so pretty, I agree. Thanks, Sandra xo
Many thanks for your interest, yes I am delighted with the response. The cover seems well received and Denise’s review is awesome. 🙂
Celebrating Marje’s success, and this book will generate many successes!
Yay! I agree, Annette 🙂
I do mention a lot of folk in it… in the indie community so that hopefully will be true! Thanks Annette. x
That sounds like a really beautiful poetry book and your review was great
Thanks, Thomas 🙂 It was nicely done.
Thank you so much Thomas, great review from Denise, delighted with the response. 🙂
Wishing you an inspired writing day.
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Thank you, you as well xo
Hi Denise, a wonderful review of Marje’s new book. This is my next poetry read.
Hi Robbie that’s brilliant hope you enjoy. 😊
Enjoy the weekend….
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Fab review Denise. I really enjoyed Marje’s book. <3
Thank you so much Debby for all your support and for sharing Denise’s review on Twitter or X!
My pleasure Marje. I’ve been sharing quite a few posts for your book, but sadly, Twitter doesn’t usually let me tag you. Ridiculous! xx
Oh, thanks so much Debby. Just popped over to your blog to comment on your birthday post. My mobile is being annoying and doesn’t allow me to comment on posts so I am on my laptop! Looks like you had a fun time! xxx
Thanks Marje. And glad you were able to visit and comment. <3
Yes, can’t figure out why my phone won’t let me, Debby. It’s a bit annoying. I don’t always carry my laptop everywhere nowadays. Luckily, I have it with me at the moment as we have a long spell in Portugal. Back to Edinburgh mid July. XXX
How nice Marje. Enjoy Portugal! <3
Thank you so much Debby. So appreciate that. xxx
Loved this. Beautiful read