Hey everyone! Big news! Pskis Porch has officially launched my second book collaboration with Marcel Herms, entitled “Unexpected Mergers.” And this time the art is in FULL COLOUR! You can order your copy now! At either Amazon.ca, or Amazon.com! I’ll let a bit of the Foreword explain: One Summer night in 2018, I went to […]
New Book Available! — Selected Works of Jordan Trethewey
Pollinators by Su Zi
Mai Ivfjäll’spoetry shares the quality of symbolic elusiveness with that of William Blake whose motifs are significant inWeep Hole.Tantalising hints throughout the pamphlet invite the reader to explore a world of mysticism and ancient magic as well as the retro future of a fifth element and a divine language.
‘Suspended Not Suspended’ is written from the perspective of Blake’s ‘Sick Rose’ where the secret, invisible worm is its own self-destructive love. Time, in Mai Ivfjäll’s poem, unravels self like the thread of a hem. Here there is ‘no health’ but ‘only livingmy sick sick rose’. There are sonnets inWeep Hole,part of a sequence called ‘Sick Sonnets’ which the author has described in an interview with Paul Cunningham of Action Books, as a ‘kind of love letter to the obliteration of self (and attunement to the present moment) that happens in the throes of chronic sickness.’
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with Z.D. Dicks
Q1: When did you start writing and first influences?
Z.D.: I really started to get into poetry in my teens. The main influences at the time were Ted Hughes, John Donne and Edgar Allan Poe.
Q2: Who are your biggest influences today?
Z.D.: My biggest influence today is Seamus Heaney and many other contemporary poets.
Q3: Where did you grow up and how did that influence your writing/art? Have any travels away from home influenced work/describe?
Z.D.: I grew up in Gloucester, this has had a profound influence on me. It has influenced me because the countryside has open space and places to get lost without bricks. This has influenced my writing because I can spend time away from people to think and work. My travels have had an impact as well because any new experience adds collateral to the sensory bank so my writing always gains…
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with Marisa Silva-Dunbar
Q1: When did you start writing and first influences?
Marisa: I seriously started writing when I was 18. I took an intro to creative writing poetry, and that workshop helped me become a poet. My influences at the time were Sarah E. Azizi, Francesca Lia Block and Sandra Cisneros.
Q2: Who are your biggest influences today?
Marisa: I really enjoy Amber Tamblyn’s writing. Dark Sparkler is a collection that is always on my mind.
Q3: Where did you grow up and how did that influence your writing/art? Have any travels away from home influenced work/describe?
Marisa: I lived in Miami for seven years, and the rest of my youth was spent in New Mexico. I definitely feel the Southwest has had more of an influence on me. The desert is with me no matter where I go. In some ways it’s paradise.
I also spent two years…
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WE RISE … LIKE SMOKE ∆Poems∆Psalms∆Incantations∆
WE RISE LIKE SMOKE ∆Poems∆Psalms∆Incantations∆ — R.M. ENGELHARDT
We are delighted to be able to announce that we will be holding the Tears in the Fence Festival Digging Deeper: Roots and Remains on 2nd to 5th September 2021 via Zoom and at the Stourpaine Village Hall, Stourpaine, Blandford Forum, Dorset DT11 8TA. Amongst our featured readers and speakers will be Sascha Akhtar, Rae Armantrout, Elisabeth Bletsoe, […]
2021 Tears in the Fence Festival — Tears in the Fence
This Kilt of Many Colours is David Bleiman’s first poetry pamphlet, out now from Dempsey & Windle. 50 pages, £8 “Reading David’s poemario transported me to dusty village squares, faint echoes of joyful gatherings still lingering around the tables outside the bars, which had in turn borne witness to violent events that shaped the identity of the […]
This Kilt of Many Colours by David Bleiman — The Poetry Shed
Phillis Wheatley, the first black American to publish a book of poetry, had a childhood as the worst of nightmares. She was taken by force and sold into slavery as a very young child, transported to Boston, America. But her captors saw something in young Phillis, a raw talent that they were keen to nurture, […]
The Rhythm of Africa: Phillis Wheatley — Hark Around the Greats
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Rendevous — Miriam’s Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond
The Wombwell Rainbow 