For a short shot of poetry visit Shot Glass Journal: Online Journal of Short Poetry an ezine devoted to short poems (up to 16 lines) with US and
International sections, plus a featured country. Issue 8 features Australia. Poems to mention:
Jennifer Chrystie’s (Aus) ekphrastic
poem Underground Carpark at Dawn
after Janenne Eaton’s drawing After
Adelaide 1983. Delicious order and
solitude in tune but somehow you know all is out of tune. The rakish tilt
of her …smart black hat. I think of
Judith Wright’s poem Legend.
To see how simple happiness is
read Stuart Barnes’ (Aus) Cento for
Fourteen Australian Poets and take note of the sources for more must-read
poems.
Cally Conan-Davies (Aus) portrays
in Looking Out for Gert the women the
world can depend on. Gert …hanging out
another load to dry and everything that that is a metaphor for. The poem is
solid, domestic, takes you to a precipice.
Alasdair McAndrew’s (Aus) Four Men at the Funeral of a Workmate is misery to the bone. No one moves, no one weeps. Everything, is
inwards. Everything, out of their control.
Two of the smallest poems are
among the punchiest: After by Ruth
Arnison (NZ) who edits Poems in the
Waiting Room (NZ) and Arbor (also
a delicate poem) by Sa’ad M Al-Obaid (US).
Shot Glass provides a convenient
glossary of short forms. You might like to try a black out poem, a ghazal
(developed in Persia), the naani (India), a roundel (a variation of the French
rondeau), a Sijo (7th century Korean). Some are more complex than
others. The sonnet of course is more familiar or you might want to simply write
a shorter prose poem.
Plan
for the next submissions deadline: January 15.
Thanks for mentioning my poem! I'm thrilled.
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Alasdair
Yer more than welcome - I loved the poem. Thanks for visiting. Cheers Lizz
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