The purpose in putting together this anthology is to harness poetry through social media and to engage actively in sharing poetry with other poets and bringing poetry to the general public. This collection of poems is the work of a group of poets connected through the global professional networking websiteLinkedIn.com, and in particular, but not exclusively, the LinkedIn group called, "Poetry, Review and Discuss."

The Poets of The Poetic Bond 2011

George Chijioke Amadi (Lagos, Nigeria) Poem: A Wife's Neck Saved / Graham Bates (Christchurch, New Zealand) Poem: Touch / Marguerite Guzman Bouvard (Massachusetts, USA) Poems: Bougainvillea/Invisible / Dan Brook (California, USA) Poem: November Ninth / Bonnie Gail Carter (Indiana, USA) Poems: I Will/The Chill Turned Warm / Alexander Clarke (Michigan, USA) Poem: Status Update / Durand J. Compton (Kansas, USA) Poem: IT IS A FINE IRISH MORNING / LaurieCorzett (undisclosed) Poem: Under Cover of Lightning / Marian Dunn (Lancashire, England) Poem: Watching the War / A.D. Fallon (Kentucky, USA) Poem: Futility of Desire / James Gilmore (California, USA) Poem: My 30th / Sandra Hanks (Seychelles, Indian Ocean) Poem: "Moon Shine Supine" / Chi Holder (Missouri, USA) Poem: Enduring the Storm / Romi Jain (California, USA) Poem: Her New Abode / Diane Margaret Jardel (Co.Fermanagh, Northern Ireland) Poem: The Mirror / Michael Lee Johnson (Illinois, USA) Poems: Charley Plays a Tune/Kentucky Blue / Just Kribbe (California, USA) Poem: Telegram / Drake Mabry (Poitiers, France) Poems: Four Haiku / Trevor Maynard (Surrey, England) Poems: Redundant C/elegant grace eternal / Marli Merker Moreira (Burgos, Spain) Poem: Dead Woman / Debbie Edwards Morton (Ohio, USA) Poem: What Will Happen? / Gillian Prew (Argyll, Scotland) Poem: Birds and Bombs / NancyPritchard (Missouri, USA) Poems: Moon Madness/Trouble on the Line / Sarah Rahman (Karachi, Pakistan) Poem: The Worrying Whys Within / Rainbow Reed (England) Poem: The Storm / Gill C Shaw (Lancashire, England) Poem: Peace of Big Bear / Michael Shepherd (Somerset, England) Poem: In Expectation of Rain / Peter Alan Soron (undisclosed) Poems: the grand i/Tough Call in E.Z. City / Tom Spencer (Indiana, USA) Poem: Festival of Souls / N. A'Yara Stein (Indiana, USA) Poems: Saudade/La Nuit Blanche / Ashleigh Stevens (London, England) Poem: I feel like dancing in the night / Tom Watts (Surrey, England) Poem: The World's Waif / Mark Jason Welch (Barbados, West Indies) Poem: The Truth about Oranges
About the Author: Trevor Maynard (1963-) was born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. He read Theatre Studies and Dramatic Art at Royal Holloway College and has worked for ten years in the theatre, writing, directing and producing. He is married to Jo, and has four children, eight grandchildren, and two cats. A colllection of Maynard's one-act plays, "FOUR TRUTHS" is now available, and his new collection "GREY SUN DARK MOON" is now available. He is also the editor of "THE POETIC BOND II, III, IV, V and VI is working on THE POETIC BOND VII, which will be published after November 2017.