I’m posting this here for you all can read and give your own views!!
Hi Tina One and all,
The idea of having some of the Poems from the website published into a book for the benefit of the AZ society is something I have been saying myself for a very long time as there are a lot of very good poems here that express our innermost feelings within the illness from many perspectives but as yet know one has taken the idea any further, in fact at the end of last year I decided to try and do something about it myself and put together a collection of some of the poems from the Alzheimer’s Forum and AZ society websites in a decretive booklet form with the title (Poetic Thoughts) as a downloadable Words document, I did this so that people with our illness could keep the booklet by there side to read at there leisure, to make it easy for downloading the booklet is in to follow on parts, to view the booklet and download it go to www.alzheimersforum.org and go into the poetry section, also in the multimedia section you will find some of my own poems that I have personally recorded for the benefit of people who like to hear poems recited to them rather than reading.
So I whole heartedly agree with you that it could prove to be immensely financially beneficial for the AZ society if someone could publish such poems, but I guess the problem would then arise of getting the permission from all the contributors of the poems otherwise it might be considered an invasion of there own privacy, but having said that I’m sure that could still be achieved if the AS was to ask people to send there poems again to a specific contact within the AS on a pre laid out reply form that states the sender is giving there authority for there poem / poems to be used in a publication, question is could the AS be involved with producing a publication or would it need to be done by a third party?
In fact there are so many poems on the AZ society websites that it could be considered to call the book (One hundred and one Immortal thoughts)
But if this is impossible to do then I will put a collection of some of the poems together again at the end of the year just for the websites as I’m sure it helps in broadening the awareness to the general public
Barry
Hi Tina One and all,
The idea of having some of the Poems from the website published into a book for the benefit of the AZ society is something I have been saying myself for a very long time as there are a lot of very good poems here that express our innermost feelings within the illness from many perspectives but as yet know one has taken the idea any further, in fact at the end of last year I decided to try and do something about it myself and put together a collection of some of the poems from the Alzheimer’s Forum and AZ society websites in a decretive booklet form with the title (Poetic Thoughts) as a downloadable Words document, I did this so that people with our illness could keep the booklet by there side to read at there leisure, to make it easy for downloading the booklet is in to follow on parts, to view the booklet and download it go to www.alzheimersforum.org and go into the poetry section, also in the multimedia section you will find some of my own poems that I have personally recorded for the benefit of people who like to hear poems recited to them rather than reading.
So I whole heartedly agree with you that it could prove to be immensely financially beneficial for the AZ society if someone could publish such poems, but I guess the problem would then arise of getting the permission from all the contributors of the poems otherwise it might be considered an invasion of there own privacy, but having said that I’m sure that could still be achieved if the AS was to ask people to send there poems again to a specific contact within the AS on a pre laid out reply form that states the sender is giving there authority for there poem / poems to be used in a publication, question is could the AS be involved with producing a publication or would it need to be done by a third party?
In fact there are so many poems on the AZ society websites that it could be considered to call the book (One hundred and one Immortal thoughts)
But if this is impossible to do then I will put a collection of some of the poems together again at the end of the year just for the websites as I’m sure it helps in broadening the awareness to the general public
Barry