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Poetry Monthly – August Hello all and thanks to people who contributed to the Poetry Monthly theme for July – Where I Write. As usual, quality and range was impressive. Here are some poems to go back to: https://www.abctales.com/story/ewan/random-access-memory https://www.abctales.com/story/linda-wigzell-cress/writing-move https://www.abctales.com/story/rhiannonw/written-where-0 Now, on to August. Picture this - I’m sitting in a swing seat in a...

Posted by Philip Sidney on Sun, 30 Jul 2017 well-wisher is putting YouTube to good poetic use - you might want to do something similar! Here's what he's said and how to find it: 'Using a free movie making app and free speech synthesiser app and some public domain pictures I have put some of my poems on YouTube': https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9nJHmXzixYhPHXZEk9y6sw

Posted by Philip Sidney on Fri, 28 Jul 2017 Our weather's been a bit up and down but the writing on ABCtales has been consistently good. A touch of romance - or unrequited love - in our picks for this week: story of the week is a lovely piece of nostalgia from KiriKit: https://www.abctales.com/story/kirikit/perfect-day And from snow to the heat of the night, our poem of the week is 'Wonder' from Sam Hennig https://www.abctales.com/story/...

Poetry Monthly, July Hello all and thanks for your contributions this time to Poetry Monthly! Two interesting poems to go back to: catherine poarch’s Biss or Bissn’t - https://www.abctales.com/story/catherine-poarch/biss-or-bissnt Jennifer Skinner’s Brief Moment to Dream https://www.abctales.com/story/skinnerjennifer/brief-moment-dream The focus for this coming month is – Where I Write. Take this literally – do you write in a garden shed, a...

We are positively heaving with good stuff on here this week - particularly prose, so it's been very hard to pick the best - in fact I'm going to cheat a bit and do some honourable mentions too... Anyway, our Story of the Week goes to Weatherwax's two-parter 'A Meeting with Kindness' - a departure from his usual genre (fan fiction), and I hope to see more like this from him. A big honourable mention to Celticman for his hilarious 'The Best Days...

Posted by airyfairy on Fri, 14 Jul 2017 A plethora of riches to choose from this week! Our Poem of the Week is Rosa Cruz's 'Seals in the Currents', a wonderful combination of intricate detail and poetic vision: https://www.abctales.com/story/rosa-cruz/seals-currents Story of the Week goes to Cooper King's 'What Happens Near Rome'. I laughed, my toes curled in painful recognition - and from the reactions, I wasn't the only one: https://www...

I'm going to take you to two very different places for this week's picks. Story of the Week goes to TJW's Point Blank Period which charts his trip fleeing a hurricane in Florida, and our Poem of the Week is Tail-end, where you can join Parson Thru in a summer evening's thunderstorm in Madrid. Both great pieces which I hope you will enjoy as much as I did! https://www.abctales.com/story/tjw/point-blank-period https://www.abctales.com/story/parson...

Our Story and Poem for the Month of June, very kindly chosen by Simon Whitworth/Fatboy74: For the story, London Calling's DUP letter is brilliant and I found the Hello Walls by Leroy Mockbee novel opening to be technically great. The story I have gone for is by Ice Rivers called Daddio and Beyond, the part where the toy soldiers are not afraid of death, because they understand they are not alive, but are afraid of being buried and then not found...

Poetry Monthly, July Hello all and thanks for your contributions this time to Poetry Monthly! Two interesting poems to go back to: catherine poarch’s Biss or Bissn’t - https://www.abctales.com/story/catherine-poarch/biss-or-bissnt Jennifer Skinner’s Brief Moment to Dream https://www.abctales.com/story/skinnerjennifer/brief-moment-dream The focus for this coming month is – Where I Write. Take this literally – do you write in a garden shed, a...

Posted by airyfairy on Fri, 30 Jun 2017 Two very contrasting Picks for this week! Our Poem of the Week is Rosa Cruz's 'Bluebottle Triptych'. It manages to be beautiful, truly poetic, and almost forensically descriptive, all at the same time. One to be read again and again: https://www.abctales.com/story/rosa-cruz/bluebottle-triptych Story of the Week is MJG's funny, warm-hearted and optimistic 'Condoms for Cornwall'. It will strike a chord with...