Look at the index for ‘Collezione’ and you might well ask yourself ‘What do the NHS, The Seven Deadly Sins, Cheese, A Bomb, Trick or Treat, Dementia and Kirstie Allsopp all have in common? The answer is that all (and so many more) are explored within the widely and wildly varied topics of Tony Corbin’s latest published poetry and prose musings.
The book has a distinctly local flavour too. Subjects covered include Whitchurch Silk Mill, the River Test, The Wayfarers Walk, London Street, The Place to be Proud of awards, Basing Trail, Destination Basingstoke and the Bard of Basingstoke. There’s even a ‘talk’ surfacing the unique difficulties of cultivating a garden on the local chalk!
To contrast with the local focus, the book offers a great opportunity in these Covid constrained times for the reader to ‘armchair travel’. Travelogue extracts in the book cover Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Argentina and Canada.
You will find the content itself, irrespective of subject, ranges from the pithy through parodies to the profound. The advice is to simply ride the ‘Collezione’ journey and let the content entertain, inspire or enthral you.
The book is special in other ways too. £1 from every sale is destined to go to the local area ‘Inspero Community Hubs’. These ‘hubs’ provide valuable support to those who have ‘fallen on hard-times’. An excellent ‘stocking-filler or birthday gift, ‘Collezione’ is available now for order on Amazon UK either as an e-book (at £4) or as a paperback for £6.50. For more information you can call Tony on 07801 166223 or email him at: collezione@kempshott.plus.com
And finally… a reminder from Tony that the 2021 BMAF Creative Writing Competition entry deadline is now only a matter of weeks away… namely Monday 14th December.