It is David Bowie’s birthday today.
Or, it would have been.
Bowie died close to ten years ago, and in those ten years I have had thoughts come and go about what I should do. You see, I was writing Bowie-inspired Sci-Fi Poetry back in 2015. I quit for a while when he died, picked it up in 2018, then quit again.
Today I brought it back.
This is OUTWARD TIME, which you can get for free by visiting the link below.
It’s that simple.
The point of OUTWARD TIME is not to be a mere homage, however. I am not a popular Netflix show, I want to do things my way. So, if you have no idea who David Bowie is, that does not matter, because the poems within this book are 100% original, unique, and weird. They are just a little closer to Fan-Fiction, Parody, and Literary Response than anything else I have written.
OUTWARD TIME is a short poetry collection designed around the idea of a time-travelling man or woman, rediscovering their own past anew. It is not clear if they are in the future or the past, and in that way the protagonist relates to the Cosmic and Primordial Bowie, who they see briefly on television, defending long hair for men.
The collection also comes with a hefty postscript, explaining my process as a poet with an autobiographical aside about how I came to be a poet, and how Bowie played a part in that.
Intrigued? Here’s a poem from it.
TROPHY WALL there’s a brachiosaur vertebrae mounted to the wall and she picks ammonites and counts their whorls casting herself in very different worlds away from time-worms the new people say when the moon is empty and all the stars are dead she’s out in space living free in our ignorance but she’s really in our head
The mini collection is free.
Okay. I am going back to WHO KILLED THE HUMANS? See you all in a few weeks or days or other temporal interval. Missy the Missile has an adventure to go on.