The Tuesday Poem

This week's poem is brought to us by Helen Lowe and is a "quiet, elegant, assured" poem by Canterbury poet David Gregory called "Breathing You In".

I'll leave it to you to discover this beautiful poem on your own, but I agree with Helen in all she writes in her commentary: the poet presents a landscape of both large and minute proportions. 

Link here.

And Michelle Elvy adds:

I'm sending an addendum to this week's post, to share other news. I see we have a  couple posts this week that are not about poetry but about excellent writing news nonetheless. 

Tim Jones has a novelette called Landfall coming out in a new publication, and he blogs about it here. Exciting!

Zireaux shared a note and link about his novel, A Charlatan's Orbit, on his blog this week -- and if you're a fan of Zireaux, I know you'll find this intriguing (never mind those Australian publishers...). 

Helen Lowe finished the last round of edits on the third book in her The Wall of Night Series in December, and is now happily awaiting publication date later this year. Incidentally, I am reading the series aloud with my two daughters (we're in Book Two, The Gathering of the Lost), and it's an excellent read! 

Meanwhile, if you are keen about flash fiction, you will be interested to know that the 2015 National Flash Fiction Day competition has opened, with a 300-word limit on story submissions and a three-month submission period (through April 30). Judges this year are Owen Marshall and Fiona Kidman. Info here. 

Also in flash fiction news, Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction is honoured to have Claire Beynon's art as the journal banner this year (which you can see here), and Tim Jones will guest edit the April issue, themed iron. Info here. 

Now back to poetry -- and the wonderful mix this week: the sea and fog, political satire, Sylvia Plath, Emily Carr (!!)... Much to enjoy!

Thanks for allowing me to share a few things, from the margins of poetry. 

-Michelle