Shh Purely Poetry is featured on Book Sirens June Bundle of Poetry Arcs!
Here’s the link to request a copy to read and review:
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Shh Purely Poetry is featured on Book Sirens June Bundle of Poetry Arcs!
Here’s the link to request a copy to read and review:
https://booksirens.com/bundle/poems-arcs-you-ll-love-june-2024-batch/Z16HL44
Thank you so much to D G Kaye for sharing her excellent review of my new book of poetry.
Her 5 Star Review:
Mallon has created this volume of poems inspired by daily writing prompts and her observations and interpretations of the people and places she’s seen in her travels. She uses various poetic styles to showcase her thoughts in prose and poetry, including free-verse poetry for her longer pieces, which resonate with me most.
The sections are broken down into appropriate categories of poems. Many of the poems in the first section are written with food and drink as subject matter, with underlying tones of sensuality. Some of the poems also touch on holiday themes, love and discovery, love and loss, strangers, forgiveness, war, and nature. Much of the poetry is evoked with intimate and imaginative stirring of sensual images and others being quirky tales – as well as some with explicit sexual connotations. And an interesting spin I found with some of Mallon’s poems, that some were written from the male perspective.
I quite enjoyed this interesting twist on poetry story-telling, something very different than Mallon’s previous poetry. Here is a sampling:
Silhouettes
She is fair and I am dark.
Slight and I am robust.
.
We fill out together.
Completing our silhouettes.
.
As we explore each other.
Strangers a moment ago.
.
Now lost, unable to fade away.
.
Because we kissed the deepness
of each other’s shadows and stayed.
.
If you enjoy poetry that tantalizes and stimulates, you will no doubts enjoy Mallon’s poetry.
Delighted to announce the launch day for my new poetry collection, Shh Purely Poetry.
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.
Early Reviews
I have been delighted by some of the wonderful comments I have received via early reviews… here are some…
Thank you so much to wonderful author and poet D L Finn for reading and reviewing. And for being my first review and my first 5 star review!
Thank you so much to Amy B Garratt Author and Poet for reading and reviewing and creating this lovely graphic for me. Amy is a fantastic poet you will find on Instagram.
Thank you to a new reader Reggie for the above quote via Book Sirens!
E E’s name came to my mind while reading M J’s poems; I felt a similar sweetness, honesty, pleasant rebelliousness and force in their writing. The major concerns are about readership: is it the same numeric audience today like one hundred years ago? And who’s still reading poetry in 2024? We witness the fact that it is more and more difficult for the modern society to cultivate reading habits and a culture of written (and published) words, when it lacks a reading culture. Thus, I ask myself: how brave must an author be to write poetry in the 21st century?
Mrs Mallon proved (again) her bravery in the first line of the poetic flank on the publishing battlefield. I have come to believe that almost ninety percent of the art of versification is about courage, and that the courage to spend time with yourself and write poetry is much more than daring of letting lines go; it’s about allowing the life experiences to inevitably unfold and evoke powerful pictures in the reader’s mind. And yes, poems don’t exist on their own, but are co-created by observers; like beauty in the eyes of the beholder. No question or doubt about it.
“I can still feel her lips on mine
Salty like the caramel snack
That she turned down for peanuts.
My hands caress her breasts
They sit up pert. Asking – no begging to be touched.”
~ fragment from ‘Valentine’s In Chocolates’ Review Quote – Dan Quijote Book Sirens. Thank you so much for Dan for his considered and utterly wonderful 5 star review!
Thank you so much to Richard Dee for featuring me on his blog. Below is a snippet of his wonderful review. Touched to read that I am amongst his favourite poets! Please pop over to his awesome blog to read the full review: https://richarddeescifi.co.uk/book-review-purely-poetry/
Thank you so much to author, poet and short story writer Sally Cronin for not only reading and reviewing but also featuring me on her blog. How awesome is that! https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2024/05/18/smorgasbord-new-book-spotlight-and-review-poetry-shh-purely-poetry-sensual-love-and-relationship-poems-by-m-j-mallon/
Love in the romantic sense is a heady complex combination of physical and emotional attraction to another, sometimes bordering on the obsessive that completely takes over to the point of shutting out everything around you. Senses are heightened bringing a new perspective to the most mundane of activities, sights and sounds.
The author captures the depth of this sensual awakening and also the changes it brings to our lives in her poetry. The poems start slowly taking the reader through courtship into full blown relationships highlighting the highs and the lows along the way. The path of true love is not always smooth and as well as passion, one needs forgiveness and compassion. Review Quote Sally Cronin.
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Shh-Purely-Poetry-Sensual-Relationship-ebook/dp/B0D12C3329/
Amazon Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/Shh-Purely-Poetry-Sensual-Relationship-ebook/dp/B0D12C3329/
Amazon Spain: https://www.amazon.es/Shh-Purely-Poetry-Sensual-Relationship-ebook/dp/B0D12C3329/
The paperback will be out soon. I will be making a separate announcement about when it is okay to order.
In the meantime, please do support me by sharing the good news and downloading your kindle copy.
Many thanks.
A new review, many thanks from Julia Sutton, 5 stars!
Thank you so much to Richard Dee for this early book review and feature for my latest release due out 2nd June.
REVIEW
Well, where do I start?The author paints a picture in every poem, cleverly intermixing themes and providing a running commentary on aspects of love as part of life.With sections called LOVE IS FUEL, THE SUMMER & WINTER OF LOVE, LOST LOVE/DISCOVERING LOVE, LOVE, LIFE, WAR & FORGIVENESS, STRANGERS IN LOVE, QUIRKY! and SENSUAL SIGHS, there really is something for every mood, every stage of love, seduction and sensuality.The wordplay is deft and draws on powerful imagery, like this, from Breakfast Nibbles,Avocado spread on toast,Like her bikini, green, shiny,lush,Skimpy but oh so satisfying!or this, from Punk Music Babe,bold eyes blink in shadows,saucy salmon pink arch of eyebrows,her unrealluscious lookexcites me.There are so many other great examples, but I can’t show them all. Get a copy, you won’t be disappointed.This volume is recommended for anyone who likes to be taken on an exploration of the beauty, joy and exhilaration that can be found in relationships.
CHECK OUT THE FEATURE: https://richarddeescifi.co.uk/book-review-purely-poetry/Get your copy with these links.
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D12C3329
Amazon UK:
Amazon Canada:
Amazon Spain:(English Edition) https://amzn.eu/d/biJvDBl
My latest poetry collection is available to request via booksirens:
https://booksirens.com/book/BT9LY3L/HLK0JPD
A poem from the collection, The Eagle:
Blurb
A collection of poetic pieces about love, sensuality and relationships with various sections including: love as fuel, (food and coffee love,) the summer and winter of love, lost love/discovering love, forgiveness, strangers in love, quirky aspects and nature as sensuality.Inspired in part by daily prompt poems written for #the365poetrypromptchallenge, observations of places and people on my travels.
Alternatively, I’d be delighted if you’d like to support me by downloading a copy.
Currently on kindle preorder, releases June 2nd, paperback thereafter.
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D12C3329/
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D12C3329/Amazon Canada:
Amazon Spain:(English Edition) https://amzn.eu/d/biJvDBl
One of the poems in the collection is a collaboration between myself and the lovely originator of the amazing #the365poetrypromptchallenge, Melissa Davillio.
Blooms of Blossoming Mist.
I’m delighted to announce that I have a new book on preorder, Shh, Purely Poetry.
It’s different from my usual poetic pieces here’s the …
Blurb
A collection of poetic pieces about love, sensuality and relationships with various sections including: love as fuel, (food and coffee love,) the summer and winter of love, lost love/discovering love, forgiveness, strangers in love, quirky aspects and nature as sensuality. Inspired in part by daily prompt poems written for the 365poetrypromptchallenge, observations of places and people on my travels. My latest poetry collection Shh, Purely Poetry in kindle is now available to preorder !
Kindle Buying Links
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D12C3329/
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D12C3329/
Amazon Canada:
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0D12C3329/
Amazon Spain:
(English Edition) https://amzn.eu/d/biJvDBl
This is to be published, (as is all my poetry,) under my publishing imprint Kyrosmagica Publishing. I’m keeping my rights, my way! That way I can get these darlings in UK libraries, choose or create my own cover, etc, etc.
Release date June 2nd. Will also be available in paperback.
Cover created by myself with images in Canva, line drawing of girl by Victoria Rusyn.
ARC’s are available via this google sign up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Kl0kATAedSY8CCKouoc7MT2H2pnrLFa5zwHFcXa3lz4/
I’d be delighted if you would download a copy via Amazon, link below.
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