Diamonds Last Forever
Friday, November 16, 2012 @ 5:22 PM
The latest in a trilogy of poetry by Michael Walsh will soon be available through Amazon-Kindle. This will unlikely arouse interest along Spain’s Mediterranean coastline. Michael is perhaps better known as a ghost-writer.That he is highly regarded as a poet in the United States, Northern Europe and Russia is one of the ironies of his writing career. There is only one small magazine on the northern Costa Blanca that publishes his verse. Yet his poetry has won the hearts of two of the world’s great maritime cities; one being Riga and the other Liverpool.
Composing poetry since he was in his twenties, Michael has received compliments from all over the world. These include parliamentarians, counting one Deputy Prime Minister. A city’s Archbishop’s sentiments have been echoed by renowned playwrights, business heads; academics, international news media editors and figures in the mainly classical music world.
The total collection is thought to exceed 300 poems.
In 1998 he was arguably the fastest selling contemporary poet in the UK. His first anthology sold over 1,000 copies in several weeks; the second compilation sold its 2,000 print-run in a few months. His popularity on American radio was such that he declined further narrations as being too demanding.
In the Baltic States, and in particular Latvia, his poetry’s popularity, inspired by the Latvian countryside and peoples has attracted many tributes. Indeed, a disproportionate number of the more complimentary accolades come from Russia and the Baltic States. One is that of Latvia’s EU representative Inga Barisa.