This week, into my mailbox arrived Paul Maddern's Kelpdings (great title); The Stinging Fly (so many good stories/poems in there - and congrats to Kit Fryatt on winning piece of the year), The Dark Horse from Scotland/US (really enjoyed this last subscription and now they've gone 'buy online' so there's no excuse!). Last but not least is the Poetry Divas 1(still a few copies left- go there to buy!) pamphlet with those brazen poetry huss... lovely ladies! The Divas work hard and play hard as is evidenced by the poems in this first edition, complete with a cover of pink wellie-booties in a love-heart - oh yah.
Paul Maddern's pamphlet from Templar was one of the winners of their pamphlet competition last year and it's just gorgeous. The poems, the cover (how can you not like a cover that colour), the pamphlet, the words... it's like taking a vacation in your head in much warmer Island waters... how I long for some real heat in the sunshine now.
This year's Templar pamphlet comp. is already open, in fact it closes mid-April, so you'd want to get a move on soon. The judge is Pat Winslow (get her poetry if you can - very, very talented poet) and the comp. closes on the 8th May 2010. Get cracking now (that last bit was to myself ) B)
7 comments:
Brazen Poetry Hussies are GO! Templar puts me off because they take pamphlets from some fairly established poets. What do you think? Worth a spin?
If you're not in, you can't win ;) Who knows what'll get spotted this year, EW?
I love the title Kelpdings too, Barbara. Thanks for this.
"kelpdings" sounds like the pecussion section of a sea horse orchestra. I love pamphlets and chapbooks.
Rachel, that's a really lovely description of the word. I think the author would be very happy to hear that said about his title (and the work).
Michelle, you're welcome.
Kelpdings is BRILLIANT.
Just one of 4 brilliant pamphlets from last year, N - yours was fab too!
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