I’m working on a few things at the moment. My work at Salt has kept me busy. Selling books is a frustrating business. But books need to be sold for other books to be made. If people don’t buy books, then publishers can’t make books, and that leaves someone who is a writer feeling a little worried.

But my own personal work seems to be trying to get around that problem. I’m working on a collection of poems that are not meant to be read in books. They’re going to be displayed on walls:

poem display

I’ve been busy taking photographs. They’re photos of Melbourne and Cambridge. My poems are about Melbourne and Cambridge too. I think they work pretty well together.

I like reading books. But these poems aren’t meant to be read in solitude. They’re to be shared, looked at up close, talked about. People together reading poems and looking at photographs.

I’ll be having an event in February where my finished collection will be displayed for people to do just that.

It’ll be fun.

night bloggingHi.

It’s been a busy few weeks. Since arriving back to Cambridge, I’ve moved house, started a job, made new friends, began my last year at Uni and bought a bicycle.

It’s good to be back in Cambridge. It’s different to Melbourne. Not better, but just a change. My new housemates are cool, and I’m having a great time.

I’ve started working at Salt again. But being paid this time. I’m doing lots of technical stuff, and have helped launch the new blog: blog.saltpublishing.com. It’s an awesome place to work. Please buy books from there, because they are amazing.

I’ve also started my own project. Cambouflage is an online site to host people’s writing. It’s only in its first phases, testing it out with my fellow Uni students, but who knows where it may go.

I’ve been doing so much blog work recently that I’ve kinda neglected my own. I’m still working on poems, so I will post things shortly.

For now, just hang in there.

Hello. This is my blog. It's a bit like an online portfolio.

To discover more about me and my writing, check out my homepage: www.leesmithwriter.com