Poetry Monthly

Posted by VeraClark on Wed, 05 Oct 2016

As the light dims it feels natural to turn back to writing where summer's inspiration can be hammered in to something sensational. I look forward to seeing your creativity darken readers this month in all its rich shades. Remember to make full use of peer critiques to improve your work and also, please do share poetry monthly via social networking and word of mouth - not only for new participants but to encourage old friends to rejoin us. Satire illuminated grim realities this month. Here we go:​

Rhiannon underlines the fallacies of human kind:
http://www.abctales.com/story/rhiannonw/%E2%80%98-%E2%80%A6-see-oursels-...
 
Ewan’s Trump Talk nailed all that’s dire in satire:
http://www.abctales.com/story/ewan/trump-talk
 
Linda unveils the constant inadequacies of human care:
http://www.abctales.com/story/linda-wigzell-cress/unsocial-services
 
Let the rain stutter the candlelight, swallow the dark and have the uncanny feed on your mechanical hearts. We go to the Otherworld this month. According to Suzette Haden Elgin, Founder of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, speculative poems are 'a reality that is in some way different from the existing reality.' Such (non?) realities include science fiction, fantasy, myth, horror, extra-terrestrial, time-travel, supernatural and dystopian through to the sheer weird. Whatever you write, do it for subject rather than form and let strange slip out from the clockwork door and give dread a shoulder-ride. Don't be scared of yourself. Be very scared of yourself.
 
Elgin, Suzette Haden. The Science Fiction Poetry Handbook, 2005. Sam's Dot Publishing.

 

Comments

Submitted by Ewan on

SF, Fantasy, the grim and ph/fantastical are great subjects for poetry. I'm off to read Goblin Market again... Thank you!

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