Focusing on poems of less than fourteen lines,
Philip Rowland has assembled a richly suggestive, renga-like chain of over two
hundred poems by almost half as many poets, at the same time showcasing, he says, 'some of
the most interesting minimalist poetry being written in English today'. Nice cover!
My contribution is one of my ‘twittersonnets’, ‘hammerhead’,
and it's one of three published in Issue 12 of Noon,, ‘hammerhead’,
‘lucretius’ and ‘micrographia’. They were written for the ‘Life is Short’ day
at Bluecoat, Liverpool in November 2015. (See here).
I write about them here:
The original twittersonnet (and other twitterodes) may be
found in the works of René Van Valckenborch in my A Translated Man (Shearsman, 2013) and the second in my Petrarch 3 (Crater Press, 2016). The
(then) constraint of 140 characters was distributed across the 14 (8+6) line
frame of the sonnet, 10 characters or spaces per line. You can
see the original here:
More publishing news. All of my new ‘Twittersonnets’, including the one in NOON:
An Anthology of Short Poems, will be published shortly in
my small, limited edition of short poems, Micro Event Space coming from Red Ceilings Press.(Notice that word 'shortly'.)
Click here
to read Philip Rowland’s Introduction to the anthology, plus a full list of
contributors to the anthology.
The book is published by Isobar Press. https://isobarpress.com/
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to buy it from Amazon in Japan;
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to buy from Amazon in the UK;
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to buy from Amazon in the US.
