CLUBHOUSE: Review: augur magazine #5 (literary fantasy mag)
This magazine is all fantasy: The issue was fun to read. Full of good writing and evocative imagery.
Poetry – Eye to the Telescope “Ghosts”
Eye to the Telescope is the online journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. A different person edits each issue (being published quarterly) and I myself have edited one – No. 16. The current issue, No. 22, “Ghosts”, is edited by Shannon Connor Winward, author of the Elgin Award winning poetry chapbook Undoing Winter (which I […]
Poetry – Straight Away the Emptied World, L. Umansky
Leah Umansky’s Straight Away the Emptied World is something interesting and different with a literary flavor.
Poetry – Chemical Letters by Octavia Cade
Chemical Letters has been nominated for the 2016 Elgin Award for best poetry collection (of 2014/15)
Poetry Review – Dawn of the Algorithm, Yann Rousselot
A motion poem and a crowd-funded publishing program.
FREAKS OF NATURE film review, plus POLAR BOREALIS—a new semiprozine!
This week, Steve reviews the 2015 Horror-humour film “Freaks of Nature” and finds it rather flat, then alerts the media (us!) about a new semi-pro Canadian SF/F e-magazine!
Poetry – The First Bite of the Apple, Jennifer Crow
Familiar stories made new, fresh and strange.
Poetry Review – Dark Dreams by Christina Sng
Despite the dark content, Sng’s poetry remains pleasant to read.
Spoken Worlds
Announcing a new Spoken Word Youtube channel for science fiction and fantasy.
Poetry Review – The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, Jeannine Hall Gailey
Poetry from a childhood spent exposed to radiation.
Poetry Review – Fearworms by Robert Payne Cabeen
Not only does SF Poetry exist as a full-fledged entity, but there are also people who identify as SF Poets. AND they have their own little association too.
Interview with Elizabeth Barrette, Part 2
The conclusion of Diane Severson’s interview with poet and author Elizabeth Barrette.
Interview – Elizabeth Barrette, Poet and Wordsmith
An interview with full-time wordsmith Elizabeth Barrette
Poetry Review – Wolf Skin by Mary McMyne
Fairy Tale reeducation via poetry
Genre Poetry Round Up August 2014
Our Diva delivers a short report on Worldcon and then dives right back into poetry
Poetry – Elgin Award Nominee Showcase
Today, something different. Spending a bit of time with the Elgin Award nominees.
Book Review: They Say the Sirens Left the Seas
A review of a poetry collection that includes a few directly inspired by the works of Lord Dunsany and H. P. Lovecraft.
Poetry – Embrace the Hideous Immaculate, C. Hensley
“Horror is a church. Its blood-stained glass both colors and reflects its readers’ worldview. It sacrifices many readers on the altar of repugnance.”
Poetry Round Up June 2014
A roundup of Sonya Taaffe’s poetry in a variety of print and online outlets. Quite the tour!
Poetry Review: Scenes Along the Zombie Highway, Clark
Clark’s poems are first and foremost informative, then creepy, grisly and even a little bit tongue-in-cheek funny.
Poetry Round-up April 2014
Trolling the internet for wonderful tidbits of and about poetry, this is what I came away with.
Friday Fanzine: Ecdysis No. 2 from Jonathan Crowe
Ecdysis No. 2 from Jonathan Crowe, featuring art, reviews and dinosaurs
Articles populaires Janvier 2014
Fabien Lyraud rounds up January’s popular posts for those who read the language of love.
Interview with Jo Walton (English)
Tanya Tynjala translates her talk with Jo Walton (a first? A translated Spanish language interview with an award winning Welsh author conducted at a Swedish science fiction convention?)
Poetry Review – Offspring of the Moon, by John W. Sexton
Offspring of the Moon is a beautiful little volume of 57 Moon Wind mostly short length poems. The cover art by Ludmila Korol, called “Moon Wind” is stunningly perfect and beautiful on the paperback cover. I was drawn in by the vividness of the imagery and found a kinship with the weird.
Poetry Review: Transmissions to the Mystic Nebula
A collection of intensely intimate poetry which map a life
Interview: Amal El-Mohtar
Amal El-Mohtar is the Nebula-nominated author of The Honey Month, a collection of spontaneous short stories and poems written to the taste of 28 different kinds of honey. She is a two-time winner of the Rhysling Award for Best Short Poem (“Peach-Creamed Honey” and “Song for an Ancient City”), and edits Goblin Fruit, an online […]
Review: Unexplained Fevers, by Jeannine Hall Gailey
Unexplained Fevers brings Snow White, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and others into the present day and/or the real world, making them get MRI’s, buy cars, and putting their images in glossy magazines.
Poetry Roundup – September 2013
A summary of excellent SF poetry that can be found online.
One Thousand Posts
Today Amazing Stories achieves a milestone in publishing its 1,000th post (and then some!) When this project first began – the resurrection of the world’s first science fiction magazine – I had high hopes, huge ambitions and a tremendous amount of faith in the genre community; faith that its members would live up to the […]