My first poetry collection: 50 Things to Do Before You Die I’ve written almost anything you can imagine: blogs, magazine articles, entire websites, newsletters, Op-Eds, thought leadership pieces, speeches, scripts, annual reports and more. Latterly, this has included novels. All along, I’ve written poetry. I decided to collect as many as I could find and publish them. 50 Things to Do Before You Die is the result. The world’s least-read poet As a professional writer, my writing has reached millions of readers. As a novelist, not so many. As a poet, I expect even fewer readers could give a hoot about poetry in general, never mind mine. It’s been a passion project to bring this volume to life. The subtitle is ‘Collected poems about life, death, and pigeons’, so that’s what you get. Poetry is a deeply personal adventure, so I guess these lines of verse offer some insights into my state of mind over the past few years, although some of them were written purely for fun; observational ...
