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the remembrance of past light and lives
Poetry news of the last little while:
In April, Apex Magazine published "Unlabelled Core c. Zanclean (5.33 Ma)", a poem from a paper on the time when the Mediterranean was dry - and then reflooded. This led to a very happy exchange on Twitter, where the paper's author was delighted to find his paper had led to a poem!
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the contemplation of year's end
Thesis: submitted - and accepted with corrections.
Poetry published in 2013:
"Gneiss-Mother". The Cascadia Subduction Zone, January 2013.
"Grandmother Ash". The Cascadia Subduction Zone, January 2013.
"Ōtautahi in Spring". inkscrawl #5, 15 January 2013.
"Foam, Braided with Teeth". Stone Telling #9, 1 March 2013.
"Orpheus in Orbit". Ideomancer, 3 ( Read more... ) -
eels and poems and hummingbirds, oh my
Oh look, four things make a post.
1. There was a story up at Strange Horizons recently, Longfin's Daughters by the relatively new author O. J. Cade. It's a succinct bildungsroman, finding identity, a typical fairytale - except not so much. My experience of reading initially went ( Read more... ) -
Homo dissertationae is a tea-based lifeform
Not long. Oh dear.
Then: freedom! To be followed by sleep. Possibly for a week. And then fixing all the things for the Mighty Paper.
But because one of my friends who I have never met is creative and wonderful, there was this happymaking thing:
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distant land of braided rivers
My poem "Ōtautahi in Spring" is now online as part of the fifth issue of the small and perfectly formed inkscrawl. It was written in response to the Christchurch earthquakes, a feeling of watching from afar as the city I know well tried to reform ( Read more... ) -
a gift in the crumbs of charcoal
Hello, Dreamwidth! Trying a crosspost. The one annoyance with Dreamwidth that I have noticed is that Livejournals that I am subscribed to are not showing up on the Dreamwidth reading list, which will stop me switching for now. Otherwise the interface is pleasant & familiar. Do folks find it preferable to have comments enabled on both sides, or just ( Read more... ) -
Poems of 2012
Published in 2012:
"Loki, Dynamicist". Strange Horizons 9 January 2012.
"Seamstress". Stone Telling #7 29 March 2012.
"Bird-winged". The Cascadia Subduction Zone, 2(2):15, 1 April 2012.
"The Problem of Two Bodies". The Cascadia Subduction Zone, 2(2):20, 1 April 2012.
"Sky-shaping". Strange Horizons, 28 May 2012.
"The First Flute, Played in ( Read more... ) -
sun in the morning and song on the breeze
I woke up this morning to an a capella group practising Christmas carols in the carpark across the road. Today is good.
My short poem "Ōtautahi in Spring" has been accepted by mitchell_hart for the guest-edited issue of inkscrawl, #5. It was written back in spring as a reflection for Christchurch; there are patupaiarehe ( Read more... ) -
sometimes the songs come calling
This is too much fun to pass up. As per papersky, rushthatspeaksand others:
Tell me about a story I haven’t written, and I’ll give you one sentence from that story.
Which might become a line from a poem. Or more than one line.
