New Publications: “JAAM 28: Dance Dance Dance” and “Bravado 20”
Although finishing The Wall of Night Book Two is definitely centre stage right now, I do have a couple of new poems out there in the world.
JAAM 28: Dance Dance Dance edited by Clare Needham and Helen Rickerby* has just been published and contains two of my poems: Giacometti and Oral History. To find out more about JAAM, click here, and the Dance Dance Dance edition is here.
(* By the way, when you visit Helen Rickerby’s website, I particularly recommend her poem, Empress Elisabeth.)
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Bravado 20 has also recently been published and includes my poem Notice to Quit.
Sadly—and I’ve just realised that the title of my poem might be construed as prophetic!—this is the final issue from the Bravado team, who have given us six years of bravura literary publication and a wonderful annual poetry competition. I know that I have been privileged to have several poems and short stories published in Bravado and feel, as I know many other poets and writers do, that the departure of the journal leaves a definite “gap.”
But I know anyone involved in writing, or with experience of journal publication, understands the huge commitment of personal time and energy that editing and production take, and why the team at Bravado have decided to call it quits. I do wish them all well for their future endeavours.
I’ve just read your poems in JAAM 28 – two lovely poems – and have Bravado 20 sitting in the to-read pile as well. As both a reader and a writer, it is sad to see Bravado go: but I expect those most closely involved will get their lives, and their writing careers, back as a result. I wish them well too.
I’m really enjoying Dance Dance Dance—J(ust) A(wesomely) A(mazing) M(aterial), as always! 😉
But definitely sad about Bravado.