Released on = April 13, 2007, 10:03 pm

Press Release Author = Alan D Kerr

Industry = Entertainment

Press Release Summary = Reasons to check out a superb new anthology of
verse entitled \'Not Bad For A Monday\'

Press Release Body = Alan D Kerr has long felt that \'poetry\' as a catch-all term for
versification is too wide, and prefers to call the content of his recently published
anthology entitled Not Bad For A Monday, \'light verbal entertainment\'. He also
feels that using this description distances his work from the great welter of
material churned out these days that calls itself \'poetry\' with as much
justification as a desert has to call itself \'scenic\'. No navel-contemplation in
Alan\'s work. Joy Hendry editor of Chapman, Scotland\'s quality literary magazine in
her introduction to the book describes the content as \"clearly written for fun and
... a totally un-\'pc\' zone\" ... the author himself she describes as \"irreverent,
cheeky, pithy\" ...
Alan turned his hand to word-smithing some years ago on the strength of an
experience he had in the South of France. Sitting on the beach one day with a
female friend he casually mentioned the fact that he dabbled in verse, and
his companion asked if he might produce a sample there and then. Not having
his spiral-bound reporter\'s notebook stuffed down his swimming trunks Alan
improvised by scribbling on a napkin. Roughly half-an-hour later he handed
over his effort and received the comment: \'I think you\'ve missed your
vocation\'. The rest, as they say, is history!
What of the content of Not Bad For A Monday? Well, it can best be described as
accessible (no code-breaking required here), witty and entertaining e.g.

Autobiographical Reflection

Aspiring
is tiring!

There is a sizeable section of Glasgow Comic Verse written in a mild Glasgow
vernacular which Alan says was the most fun to write and lends itself perfectly to
public recitation, an activity he intends to develop.

For more information on the book and purchase links please visit Alan\'s website:
www.sylvanmedia.co.uk. For those who like an online browse before they buy Not
Bad For A Monday features on Amazon\'s SearchInside and Google\'s BookSearch.

So, for those of you jaundiced and jaded by the stresses and strains of life in the
new millenium, might we recommend Not Bad For A Monday as the ideal tonic! Enjoy the
verbal music, please.



Web Site = http://www.sylvanmedia.co.uk

Contact Details = 31 The Woodlands,
STIRLING FK8 2LB
Scotland
alan@sylvanmedia.co.uk