Themed mag editions...

[Antcliff]

I'm starting a thread notifying PGers of mags looking for submissions for a themed edition...should they be interested.

Seth

[Ros]

Good plan. I wonder about themes, as generally I think poems are better when they've stewed for a bit, and of course themes tend to make people write 'n' send. But they can also inspire.

Ros

[Antcliff]

and of course themes tend to make people write 'n' send. But they can also inspire.

And sometimes themes can be broad enough to cover poems that have already been stewed?

And there are cases when you ponder the theme and then realise that a poem from the C-file would fit and work well if changed in ways that...you come to realise...would be to the good. I rather like this last possibility...the inspiration of looking at an old poem from a different angle.

Seth

[Ros]

Yes. Be interested to see what you come up with! Weren't you going to do a wider list of mags, too?

[Antcliff]

Yes. Be interested to see what you come up with! Weren't you going to do a wider list of mags, too?

Yes, I was...but something stopped me. This thought..isn't looking around part of the fun? It has been so for me.

Seth

[Antcliff]

A mag looking for poems on a Bull theme....

http://thepickledbody.com/2014/03/15/ca ... -1-3-bull/

[David]

This is very selfless of you, Seth, and very helpful. But I have no Bull poems! (You'll see I carefully capitalised bull.)

[Antcliff]

This is very selfless of you, Seth, and very helpful. But I have no Bull poems! (You'll see I carefully capitalised bull.)

Ha!...but Jake has..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PG6sITiNEs

[David]

I was thinking about Jake! I often do.

[Magpie Jane]

Themed stuff . . . a marvy idea, I think. Should have good resurrection potential for the C-file inmates.

Bulls, ey? hmmmmm . . . wonder if someone, somewhere, may be looking for donkeys? I do have a proto-version of a donkey poem hangin' about, doing absolutely nothing.

Jane

[Ros]

Themed stuff . . . a marvy idea, I think. Should have good resurrection potential for the C-file inmates.

Bulls, ey? hmmmmm . . . wonder if someone, somewhere, may be looking for donkeys? I do have a proto-version of a donkey poem hangin' about, doing absolutely nothing.

Jane

Shoe-horn those bulls in place of the donkeys, Jane. Us urban types, we're not going to know the difference.

Ros

[Magpie Jane]

bull's horn shoehorn?

[David]

Or a Custer poem?

[Antcliff]

Did not know about this mag..new edition......counts as themed perhaps.

http://www.geopoetics.org.uk/online-jou ... travaig-3/

[David]

I've just started reading What is Geopoetics? Oo-er. But that could just be my Philistine first impression, and I really shouldn't be a Philistine.

[Antcliff]

I've just started reading What is Geopoetics? Oo-er. But that could just be my Philistine first impression, and I really shouldn't be a Philistine.

Dunno much (indeed anything) about it. I'm just dropping of this sack o'spuds at the back door. I did briefly meet Norman Bissell once, who sort of runs it perhaps. I had not realised there was a mag. Will be inspecting. But I approve of any poetry mag connected to the Isle of Luing (where he is from).

[Magpie Jane]

That looks interesting. I had heard about psychogeography, but never (until now) geopoetics. A lot of geo seems to be on the move.

A shot-pocked poster observed by a rutted winding country lane:
Warning: hitchhikers may be escaped geopoets.

Jane

[Antcliff]

A shot-pocked poster observed by a rutted winding country lane:
Warning: hitchhikers may be escaped geopoets.

It has to be a worry, Jane.

[Antcliff]

Jane the Magpie has flown by to say that she has spied a few themed mag contexts from her nest. Hooray. Three cheers for Jane.

I pass them on..


Sein und Werden: http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwe ... issue.html, surreal titles, deadline 20th May

Right Hand Pointing: http://www.righthandpointing.net/#!submit/c1qnp, humour stuff for August issue, science for December issue

Eye to the Telescope: http://eyetothetelescope.com/submit.html, science poems, deadline 15th June

Rattle: http://www.rattle.com/poetry/submissions/calls, Japanese forms, deadline 15th Oct.

Jersey Devil: http://www.jerseydevilpress.com, legendary creatures, deadline 1st June

[Antcliff]

Angle is welcoming ekphrastic poems for the next edition....I know some of you have ekphrastic poems hanging around, looking for luv. This may be it:

http://anglepoetry.yolasite.com/

[David]

Angle is welcoming ekphrastic poems for the next edition....I know some of you have ekphrastic poems hanging around, looking for luv. This may be it:

http://anglepoetry.yolasite.com/

And it's worth trying. I sent six off, as a direct result of Seth's nudge here - three ekphrastic and three not - and they accepted one of each, pretty much by return. That's a more than acceptable hit rate.

[Antcliff]

Angle is welcoming ekphrastic poems for the next edition....I know some of you have ekphrastic poems hanging around, looking for luv. This may be it:

http://anglepoetry.yolasite.com/

And it's worth trying. I sent six off, as a direct result of Seth's nudge here - three ekphrastic and three not - and they accepted one of each, pretty much by return. That's a more than acceptable hit rate.

Wow, that was was a quick goal, positively Bale-ish...congrats!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWVrolNQ4RU

[David]

Thanks, Seth! I thought it was more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH677srktkk

Look at that pitch! (And a young Greavesy in there too.)

[Ros]

Angle favour the metrical, don't they?

[David]

Angle favour the metrical, don't they?

That's what I thought, so I made sure that the three ekphrastics - that didn't scan and rhyme - were accompanied by three good old-fashioned rhymers.

Some of the stuff I read in their latest issue is very good, metrics notwithstanding.