Category: poetry
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Cosmic meetings
I just came home from a really inspiring event. The Finnish literature festival Runokuu (‘poetry month’) organised an evening at the Helsinki Student Theatre, a combination of science, poetry and theatre. First Syksy Räsänen, a physicist, gave us a brief talk on relativity theory and quantum theory, and the different conceptions of time arising from…
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Poetry sale to Strange Horizons
Seems that this week is all about publication news… My poem ‘Raw Honey’ will be appearing in Strange Horizons! I’m extremely happy to see this poem find a home. It’s a mythic bedtime tale in poem form, written a couple of years ago. There’s something similar in the atmosphere of ‘Raw Honey’ to the other…
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‘Looking-Glass Lover’ free to read in Niteblade
I just noticed that Issue #28 of Niteblade has received enough funding that it’s fully free to read online. So, if you haven’t done so already, off you go to read my poem ‘Looking-Glass Lover’ and the rest of the great poetry and prose in the issue! I’m going out to enjoy the lovely warm…
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‘Shrug Charm’ in Goblin Fruit for your reading pleasure
The Spring 2014 issue of Goblin Fruit is now live! Huzzah! Read the issue here. It’s full of gorgeous poems – I’m very happy to be amongst such talented company. Wonderful art as always, too. I really love what Paula Friedlander’s done with the bold outlines and lush, 3D colourscapes. Here’s my poem: ‘Shrug Charm’.…
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Poetry World Cup 2014
The Missing Slate is organising a Poetry World Cup! The competition involves 32 poems by poets representing 32 different countries. All of the poems have been previously published in the magazine. There’s a poetry match every day till July 13th, and you can help pick the winner each day by voting on the website. The…
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Niteblade #28 is now online!
Niteblade #28 is online here – titled after my poem 🙂 A snippet of my poem ‘Looking-Glass Lover’ is here. To get the whole issue free to read online, Niteblade relies on donations and purchases – so if you want to get the issue for everyone to read, consider buying yourself a super cheap .epub,…
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Poetry sales to Goblin Fruit
Some happy news: my poems ‘Shrug Charm’ and ‘Sorrow-stone’ will be published in the Spring and Summer issues of Goblin Fruit! I love Goblin Fruit – the issues are always gorgeous, well-thought-out and full of talented poets – so I’m pretty much over the moon to be published in such a lovely magazine. I’ll post…
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‘The Alchemist’s Lover’ now online
The Alchemies issue of CSHS is now online, yay! You can read my poem here: ‘The Alchemist’s Lover’. Do check out the rest of the issue as well – there’s some really good poetry there, and a few intriguing pieces of visual art, too.