The Freedom to Fly
by Amy Fitzgerald.
The Freedom to Fly is a book of poetry that contains roughly fifty poems. In total, the book took nine months to publish.
I had taken up a training course in the Connect Programme in Waterford
City and during class I developed an interest in writing my own book.
Roughly 25-30 of my poems were written during class time and I hadn't
anticipated that it would go any further until about the 20th poem, at
which point I gained interest in sharing my work with other people.
After the course was over, I published one of my poems on Facebook and a
publisher contacted me inquiring if I had written any more poems.
I met up with the publisher shortly after and he expressed a lot of
interest in my work. I presented him with all the poems I had written
and asked if I was interested in publishing all of my work publicly.
From there on it was a nine-month time-frame in which my work was
printed and published in September 2013.
Since then, my book has sold nearly 1,000 copies and there are still more being sold as of October.
You can find me on Facebook HERE
