Dead Ink

Deserter has been posted on Dead Ink Books with an illustration that is entirely apt (unlike this one). I am very happy to see it online, laid out: and the poetry editor "loving it". Me too.  The source of this poem was a dream, and I couldn't say how wide or specific the references are. The divisions are many but the nature of it is sympathetic. Any comments, twittering or thunderings, entirely welcome.  A good month for my poetic CV. 

Judge James

The judge’s report for the SLQ May Quarterly competition is posted.  Now my part is done, any competitor who finds this blog and feels aggrieved, wants to tell me to stuff it: post a comment by all means.  Though not much chance of an appeal.

By the way, to any poets starting out alone, I would recommend signing up to http://www.writeoutloud.net Post poems, get feedback, share comment, and there is a good listings page for anyone who wants to read out, or recite their work - and we all should.

Lastly, on two poems, the writer of Ms Jelani might want to bid for a bardic chair in Glos. calls for a poem on flood, link, and on the Ghost of a Flea, a coincidence, I know that pointy head! He's by my desk, questioning his empty chalice.