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ISBN 978-1-421465-21-5
size : 20.5 cm x 14.8 cm
197 pages
Published: August 2010

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A festive greeting
A groundswell of one
A perfect start
A shining light
An amazing place
An angel in the mist
As she waits
Australia Day (2008)
Beyond rage
Closing doors
Contagious
Curler Club
Custard Tart Club
Digital Christmas
Dustman
Finding your space
groundswell of one
Happy New Year (2008)
Home away from home
I believe in you
In one short life
Into the clouds
Joining friends
Just a few minutes
Le Stinky
Learning to walk
Middle of the mall
My gift of love
Nice um
Off-hand comment
Old Fart’s Club
One day to go
Open to learning
Opening the channels
Pain
Past Present Future
Personal responsibility
Rain falling
Restaurant of choice
Sheep herding
Sitting outside
The Curler Club
The Custard Tart Club
The Dustman
The humble handkerchief
The Old Fart’s Club
The sanctity of one
Through her picture
To the letterbox
Understanding culture
Unexpected events
What is life?
Where is his hat?
Wiki-ATC
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"The Definitive Collection : October 2007 - March 2008 : Volume Ten" was first published on 23 August 2010. 

Its size is approx. 14.8 cm (5 13/16") wide by 21.0 cm (8 5/16") long, (also known as A5), and 12 mm (1/2") thick.

This volume contains 50 poem titles spread over 197 pages. 

What appears below is the introduction from the book:

Introduction

Welcome to the tenth volume of “The Definitive Collection.” Thank you for choosing this book.

This book is part of a multi-book project. It is the final project on my journey of creating poetry books. This journey began in 2003 with my first book, “A nod and a smile.” At the time of publishing it, I had no idea that such a journey would be undertaken. I had compiled the book, and had the layout designed by a company. It was published under my own name, and as far as I was concerned, that was it.

Little did I know, what would follow. Little did I know, how many poems that I would subsequently write. Little did I know, how many people would find value in my first book.

So it was, that almost five years later, I would continue my journey of creating poetry books. Over the next two years, I would publish twelve small books, including a slightly revised, reformatted, and smaller sized version of my first book, “A nod and a smile.” I have now called them, my small poetry book collection.

To finish off, I am reviewing my entire collection of poetry, currently over 2700 poems. From mostly unpublished work, I will be selecting poems worthy of inclusion in this final project. Of course, not every poem can be selected, so there will be exceptions.

When first starting this project, I decided that the optimum book would be around 200 pages, both from a cost of production, a manageable content size, and potentially an interest perspective. The last point was made along the lines of “the bigger the book, the easier for the reader to lose interest.”

Initially, I decided to split the collection of poems into blocks of 500, with an expectation that each block would produce enough content for one book. The majority of my previous works have emanated from the first 500 poems, and yet, it was still possible to find enough content for the first volume.

The culling process for subsequent books quickly revealed, that the original idea of one book for each block of 500 poems, should be abandoned. It also became clear that several more books would be needed. In fact, the culling process resulted in 12 volumes being created. One additional volume will be provided, containing a Poem Title Index and a Subject Index.

As a general rule, poems over six pages in length were excluded. As with anything, there have been some exceptions made to this rule.

The poems in this book are presented in the order in which they were written. The aim of this book is to touch the reader in such a way, that the person will want to pause and ponder each poem after reading it.

Is such an aim achievable? Now that is a question that only you, the reader, can realistically answer. What I hope is, that for my part, I have given you enough encouragement and inspiration, to at least think about each poem.

The rest is up to you.

This volume was created from poems written during a period when I was writing at least one poem every day. I did this for over 1000 days.

In this volume, we again encounter the Christmas - New Year period and there are some poems related to this festive season. There is a poem celebrating Australia Day. There are three poems talking about unofficial clubs, and even one talking about the knowledge of my former work colleagues. Like all of the books before this one, it is believed that there is something for everyone.

There are two exceptions in this book. At a late stage, one poem was replaced and another one was added. Both of these poems were written outside the period indicated.

That is enough from me. It is hoped that you will find what follows of value, of interest, and worth pausing and pondering.

I now invite you to read Volume Ten of “The Definitive Collection.”

Gary Dodd
July 2010

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