Well the book both in kindle and print is totally live on Amazon form this morning. Please if you are purchasing in the UK be aware that it could take up to ten days to arrive, as it is a print on demand service here.
I am overwhelmed by the support I have had from everyone, real life and cyber buddies. Especially the people, who I have never met, yet they have been kind enough to take the time to write me a review on the Xlibris and Amazon websites.
Apparently there is a lot riding on reviews, ratings and stats.
So thank you all.
I have copied and pasted them so you can read them here..
There is a link to the book on the top right hand corner of this page, just click on the photo of me in my knickers.
In The Man in the Moon, Johnson writes about her love of her dying father. She tells beautifully of her early childhood memories and you can almost smell the sandlewood she describes in the poem. The love of her life is profound, deeply moving, suggestive and a shared darkness between daughter and father is evident.
For Johnson a poem is a performance, the declaration of a certain moment in time. First Blood has you disturbed for the start. It's violent and dark and visions are untouchable. The poem gains from leaving the unsaid.
The personal poems are suberb. The collection is full of spontaneity and wildness. A must buy is this debut of modern verse and soul baring.
For Johnson a poem is a performance, the declaration of a certain moment in time. First Blood has you disturbed for the start. It's violent and dark and visions are untouchable. The poem gains from leaving the unsaid.
The personal poems are suberb. The collection is full of spontaneity and wildness. A must buy is this debut of modern verse and soul baring.
Delyth Potts
Ruth gives us a view of life through her own style of poetry. Seeing a world full of experiences through her eyes and relaying with chilling honesty and rawness. Well done Ruth I love your modern unemcumbered words.
Helen
From the beginning, Ruth Johnston catches the reader pleasantly off guard with her cutting edge poem 'First Blood' and immediately shifts gears with the emotional words dedicated to her father in 'The Man in the Moon', a touching tribute to her late father. The heart of this little girl is revealed with her words:
“Even in death you showed me,
there’s nothing to fear.”
“Even in death you showed me,
there’s nothing to fear.”
…while the soul of the woman is exposed in 'High Heels':
“I love to wear high heels
I am addicted to them.”
“I love to wear high heels
I am addicted to them.”
In 'Today', Ruth says, “Today I want to be twenty-three” and sometimes in this wonderful book, she is.
Just as you settle in, again she shifts and honestly reminds us of how we all feel from time to time in 'Invisible Indeed':
“I am invisible
Unneeded
Nonessential
Camouflaged in the corner”
The photography is all Ruth and her creative juices flow with the shot of her dogs positioned so their legs form the shape of a heart and the nature shots (is Absolut Citron natural?) are exquisite, sometimes golden with reflection and other times white with the silence of snow.
Ruth’s book, 'Word Intoxication', is one I am proud to own…and you will be too!
tolbert
Don't let Ruth's looks fool you. While it's true she's beautiful, she also has the soul of a poet. Her candor and use of imagery on the page is like a cold splash of water on the reader's face. This book will startle and amaze. It is very highly recommended.
S. Swartz
This gorgeously presented book will intoxicate you with the power and beauty of Ruth's language
Robin
Word Intoxication
“Wildernesschic Poetry”
By: Ruth Johnston
As I breathed in her words and exhaled beauty and brilliance, I was captured…..
I started reading word by word, sentence by sentence, page by page…. I was drawn into a truly mesmerizing beauty of a poetic storm….
Poetess Ruth Johnson reaches out and touches your very heart with every drop of passionate energy she can channel…. I found myself being embraced, kissed, comforted, slapped, tickled and caressed all the while being made love too through each and every word, as they flowed off the pages….
I truly enjoyed the photographic artistry that flowed so effortlessly in between each poem to give you a perfect visual, as you journey through the wilderness of Poetess Ruth Johnson’s emotions, passion and creative breath of each and every magical word….
Being a Poet as well, I could truly appreciate and enjoy being truly captured and ripped into wonderful artistic pieces, as I breathed in her words and exhaled brilliance and beauty…..
Reviewed By: De Ann “Native” Townes Jr. “Author of “Peer Inside My Soul and See Me””De Ann Townes Jr.
“Wildernesschic Poetry”
By: Ruth Johnston
As I breathed in her words and exhaled beauty and brilliance, I was captured…..
I started reading word by word, sentence by sentence, page by page…. I was drawn into a truly mesmerizing beauty of a poetic storm….
Poetess Ruth Johnson reaches out and touches your very heart with every drop of passionate energy she can channel…. I found myself being embraced, kissed, comforted, slapped, tickled and caressed all the while being made love too through each and every word, as they flowed off the pages….
I truly enjoyed the photographic artistry that flowed so effortlessly in between each poem to give you a perfect visual, as you journey through the wilderness of Poetess Ruth Johnson’s emotions, passion and creative breath of each and every magical word….
Being a Poet as well, I could truly appreciate and enjoy being truly captured and ripped into wonderful artistic pieces, as I breathed in her words and exhaled brilliance and beauty…..
Reviewed By: De Ann “Native” Townes Jr. “Author of “Peer Inside My Soul and See Me””De Ann Townes Jr.
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