The Alchemies issue of CSHS is now online, yay! You can read my poem here: ‘The Alchemist’s Lover’. Do check out the rest of the issue as well – there’s some really good poetry there, and a few intriguing pieces of visual art, too.
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Poetry sale: ‘The Alchemist’s Lover’
I’m amused by the fact that my most recent publications both have ‘lover’ in the title. In other words: ‘The Alchemist’s Lover’ will be published in the next issue (‘Alchemies’) of CSHS. Yay! I’m currently applying for a PhD, and since my data consists of some medieval English alchemical texts, of course I had to […]
Whan that Aprill…
I’m not participating in NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month) in any official way, but I have set myself a writing goal for April: to write something new every day, whether it’s poetry or prose. Shitty or good, three words or three thousand – it doesn’t matter, as long as I write something. The first three […]
Sunday recs: Kate Elliott and Ursula Le Guin
To my intense delight, Kate Elliott posted a Valentine’s Day gift for her readers on her blog on Friday: a coda to her wonderful Spiritwalker trilogy (Cold Magic, Cold Fire, Cold Steel). Since it’s a coda, this novelette obviously contains massive spoilers. So, it will only make sense if you’ve read the trilogy. (If you […]
‘Helsinki Love Song’ online in Wild Violet
My poem ‘Helsinki Love Song’ is one of the featured works in Wild Violet’s Valentine’s Day week series. ‘Helsinki Love Song’ I don’t like Valentine’s Day much due to the focus on a very restricted type of love – Finland is better in that respect, because here it’s known as ystävänpäivä, ‘Friend Day’, and is […]
Poetry publication: Two poems in Chantarelle’s Notebook
Issue #33 of Chantarelle’s Notebook is now up! It’s full of good stuff (I especially liked the poems by Azar Blanca and Mark Mitchell). The issue includes two of my poems, ‘Ninety-Eight’ and ‘City of Stones’. I wrote a little bit about the two poems in this post where I announced the publication. I’m especially […]
Writing for small children
I had my first experience in writing a story for a small child this January. A dear friend’s child had his third birthday, and I decided to make him a picture book as a present, as evidenced by the pic on the left. Little did I know what I was in for! I mean, I […]
Sunday recs: My favourites from Interfictions #2
So, there was a lot of awesome stuff in Issue #2 of Interfictions (my Orthography: A Personal History is in some great company!). Here are three pieces that especially struck me: My Language, My Voice by Alexandra Seidel really resonates with me. Lovely so have such a bilingual exploration in Interfictions. My own piece had […]
My writing in 2013 – and my hopes for 2014
In a moment I’m going to get down to some actual writing – there has to be proper writing on the first day of a new year! But first, a round-up of 2013 and some writing goals/wishes for 2014. I thought I’d do a list of the writing I’ve done this year. It’s difficult to […]
Poem for the year’s end
Soon off to celebrate the approaching new year. So here’s my last post of 2013, in the form of a just-written poem. Here’s to a good new writing year in 2014! * Year’s-end, year’s-beginning What words to wrap the year in? How to sing in the new? Should I end and begin with ringing bells […]