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PAGES:

an evolving table of contents

 

PORTAL

~ Welcome

~ Recent book covers

~ Site navigation tips

~ Artist Profile

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      PAGES (PORTAL dropdown tab)

        ~ The petalridge.com table of contents

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      PERSONAL (PORTAL dropdown tab)

        ~ A Quick 180 word life history

        ~ A Credo

        ~ PAQs

 

      PING ME (PORTAL dropdown tab)

        ~ Contact me here

        ~ A gallery of banner images from the first petalridge site

 

PAPERBACK WRITER

~ Link to the MEMORY ADDICTS wing

~ Two minor archival Memory Addicts folders

~ Main page for the STALKING CRAWLROLLIES project:

            availability info; pitch/description; reviews; gallery; plus a PDF of the whole book, free to view

 

PHOTOGRAPHY

~ Introductory feature, “FRONT WINDOWS,” showcasing 15-20 sample photographs

~ 11 and counting themed galleries; each gallery features another 15-25 images

 

POETRY

~ “My aesthetic map”: some brief introductory remarks

~ Short sample folders (3-5 poems each) from The Blue Nib chapbook, Mutt Spirituals, You Go In By The Gate That Isn’t There. One poem from Found Voices, and a more generous selection from Scattershots

~ , A note about other poetry folders housed elsewhere on the site; a sample piece of juvenilia

 

PLAYHOUSE    

~ Four excerpts (including “The Pageant of the Flood") from my full-length play The Play of Gilgamesh. Licensed for production just as COVID hit by the UK distributor Silver Birchington Plays, it remains, for now, unproduced

~ The texts of two short plays, one published and the other seeking a choreographer/collaborator

~ Two “watch this space” pages scheduled for later

 

POTPOURRI

~ A main page with its own links to the dropdown pages, and an index to them

   (Check that page to see this index in more detail than I offer below.)

 

      PROSE PETALS (POTPOURRI dropdown tab)

        ~ Short Creative Nonfiction

                    [Looking at the Sky; Gulls & Crows; Indoctrination Training]

      PIC LIT (POTPOURRI dropdown tab)
       ~ Poem/photography combos

                    [from Flap Over Tree Debris Island; Zoom Lens; China '92 poems]

 

      PERIODICALS (POTPOURRI dropdown tab)
       ~ A list of the publications where my short form writing has appeared

 

      PORTRAITS (POTPOURRI dropdown tab)
       ~ Pic lit self-portraits; self-penned, at least—not all the pics are my own

 

      PERIPATETICS (POTPOURRI dropdown tab)
       ~ Travel writing/pieces about places

                  [China '92; Auvillar 2006; A Farewell to Romford]

 

      PACK RAT (POTPOURRI dropdown tab)

        ~ Miscellanea

 

PUBLICATIONS

~ A list of my publicly available books, with ISBN numbers, dates, publishers, etc.

 

PNEWS

~ A periodic rolling update of what I’ve been up to recently

 

      PNEWS CREVÉS (PNEWS dropdown tab)

        ~ Where older news gets archived

 

      PALIMPSEST (PNEWS dropdown tab)

        ~ A formerly and very briefly occasional blog

 

      PENDING? (PNEWS dropdown tab)

        ~ Nothing to see here…sometimes! At other times, there'll be details, flyers, etc., about upcoming stuff

 

PLAYPE 

~ A main page with a rambling intro, and links to the dropdown subpages (the last few may be ramshackle)

 

      PUZZLE PALACE (PLAYPEN dropdown tab)

        ~ WORD SQUARE PUZZLES, 152 of them, plus solutions

        ~ addagram puzzles

        ~ other occasional bits and bobs, as the urge takes me

 

      POP SONGSTER (PLAYPEN dropdown tab)

         - a prose introductory piece

         - links to eight folders of song lyrics, each containing 7-12 texts, chronologically ordered

         (#1: 1966-70; #2: 1971-72; #3: 1972-75; #4: 1975-80; #5: 1985-90; #6: 1990s; #7: 2000-09; #8: 2010-25)

         - nine sample texts you don't need to click to see! (one teaser per folder; two from #8, to hit each decade)

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      PARTY PIECES (PLAYPEN dropdown tab)

        ~ an introductory piece, about the range of my light verse

        ~ links to several different light verse folders 

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      PERFORMANCE (PLAYPEN dropdown tab)

        ~ links to videos; while there are quite a few poetry videos posted on the web of me reading serious work,

        the ones linked to in the Playground are light and playful; a lack of balance I'd like to correct

 

      PROJECTS (PLAYPEN dropdown tab)
       ~ a shifting section, as projects get tackled and completed; appropriately, the introductory page is kind of  

        a relic, with an outdated banner and redundant explanatory passages

        ~ currently, the only uncleared folder is a link to the Barracks Gap folders

        

PAST GLORIES

~ a note on the role of PAST GLORIES as an archival section of the site

~ links to the three archival dropdown tabs

 

      PARLEZ-VOUS (PAST GLORIES dropdown tab)

        ~ Chansons (folders of French song lyrics, written for my French classes)

        ~ Sketches (folders of theatrical sketches, in a blend of French and English)

 

      PROSE ARCHIVES (PAST GLORIES dropdown tab)

        ~ An introduction to my history as a short story writer

        ~ Links to seven published short stories

        ~ A hope to add some of the unpublished short stories

 

      POETRY ARCHIVES (PAST GLORIES dropdown tab)

        ~ a link to a Feet at Dawn sampler (19 poems, 1966-1972)

        ~ a link to a Surface Noise sampler (13 poems, 1972-1975)

 

PALAVER

~ an occasional blog? Or an abandoned one?