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Two poems out at The /tƐmz/ Review
The /tƐmz/ Review has kindly published two “minimalist” poems from my manuscript-in-circulation Blank Song, “Epitaph” and “Ars Poetica: the eloquence of the vulgar tongue: ‘The top global stories that matter’.”
You can read them, and many other poems and stories, here.
New Poem up at Canadian Literature
Canadian Literature (#256) has very kindly published my poem “By Mullet River” (with commentary!) in its latest issue. You can read that poem, and all the other poems, reviews, and articles, here.
Crosspost: Three “occult” poems
Filed under: poems, The Brouillon | Tags: literary Modernism and the occult, occult poetry, poetry, poetry recordings, William Butler Yeats
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A post concerning the place of “the occult” in my poetry, with readings from three poems from Grand Gnostic Central, Ladonian Magnitudes, and March End Prill.
Read, and hear!, here.
One for chouette
chouette, a new, online literary periodical based in Montreal, has kindly accepted two poems of mine for its inaugural issue.
One of the these poems, “A lot of poets…,” I record, here. It’s a versification of a colleague’s Facebook status from the opening days of the Pandemic. Thanks, again, to her, for allowing me to set her words to “the music we sing what we have to say to.”
New Poem up at Montreal’s own Columba
Filed under: poems | Tags: Canadian poetry, Columba, Domenica Martinello, poetry
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As my friend Erin Mouré writes, “Aye Columba!” Montreal’s own online poetry periodical has been kind enough to publish a poem of mine along with those of four others, one of whom, Domenica Martinello, was once a student of mine—nice to be in such fine, poetic company!
What’s especially gratifying is the poem selected by Columba‘s editor, Emily Tristan Jones, “Poetry, here, meaning: whatever language helps you sleep at night,” a kind of breathless, dithyrambic work, long a favourite compositional mode of mine, but one ever less frequently indulged.
You can read that poem, and all the others in this Fall edition, here.
Crosspost: from Orthoteny: a work in progress: Magonian Latitudes
Here, I share a sequence of poems from my second trade edition Ladonian Magnitudes, “Magonian Latitudes,” which, among other things, relates tales from the Middle Ages of Sky Ships and their crews and their interactions with mortals. You can read—and hear!—the poetic sequence, here.
Crosspost: from Orthoteny, a work in progress: from On the Phantom Air Ship Mystery: closing cantos
Here I link to the closing cantos of a long section On the Phantom Air Ship Mystery from a long work on “the myth of things seen in the skies,” Orthoteny.
Following the Mystery Airship flap of 1896/7, as real airship technology slowly took off, sightings of what seemed airships continued globally. These airships, however, were observed to outperform their real counterparts in inexplicable ways.
In the days leading up to the Great War, sightings of airships, understandably, increased. They later appeared, this time all-too-much for real, over London, in the world’s first aerial bombardment. And, just as as forerunners of UFOs were to appear in the skies over Europe and the Pacific as “Foo Fighters” in the Second War, the horrors of the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 were to inspire a myth of a mass abduction…
You can read, and hear, these three poems, here.
Crosspost: Orthoteny: from a work in progress: from On the Phantom Air Ship Mystery: April 18, 19, 21, 24, and 26
Here, the penultimate cantos from a section of a long work concerned with “the myth of things seen in the skies,” Orthoteny. These cantos relate phantom airship sightings, landings, meetings with their pilots, and debunkings from a prototypical UFO “wave” that occurred in April, 1897. These tales are of interest for including (among other things) the first report of a cattle mutilation and the story of an airship dragging an anchor, which echoes a tale from the Middle Ages!
You can read these poems, and hear them, too, here.
Crosspost: Orthoteny: from a work in progress: from On the Phantom Air Ship Mystery: April the 17th, Aurora
Here’s the next instalment from a part of a long poem Orthoteny dealing with “the myth of things seen in the sky,” an episode from the Mystery Airship wave of 1896/7, here an archetypal UFO crash. You can read it—and hear it!—here.
Crosspost: from Orthoteny, a work in progress: from On the Phantom Air Ship Mystery, April 12-16
Here, the next instalment of ten cantos more from a poem about an archetypal moment from that “myth of things seen in the skies,” a prototypical “UFO flap” from April, 1897, again, with a newly-made recording…
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