'Driftwood by Starlight' (New PoetryCollection), Published Poetry, CV and Events (2021)

2021

 

 

 

June 2021: published by The Seventh Quarry Press:

 

DRIFTWOOD BY STARLIGHT, a first full-length collection by Caroline Gill. 

 

Available here.

'With elegance and finesse, she masters a range of traditional forms, all of which beg to be read aloud so their musicality can be fully relished ...' 

- from the back cover blurb by Susan Richardson, author of Words the Turtle Taught Me (Cinnamon Press, 2018), shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award.

Reviews, Readings etc. here.

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October

The Suffolk Poetry Society has just published a calendar for 2022, its 70th anniversary year. My villanelle, 'Dunwich in Winter' [28-2020] from my new collection, Driftwood by Starlight, is the featured poem for January. It also includes a poem by David Gill for October.

A small set of my poems, [25-2014], [25-2016] and [26-2004], was read out in Ipswich Library for a Suffolk Poetry Society celebration of National Poetry Day 2021, on the theme of 'choice'. 

'Migrant Hawker' [23-2012] was published in Star Tips #143 (ed. Wendy Webb) for Autumn 2021

 

 

August

Driftwood by Starlight is one of the featured books on the Subscribers' Showcase page at WritersOnline, here and here.  

'Your Yellow Sails'  [30-2020] has been published in the August issue of Reach Poetry, Indigo Dreams Publishing. 

 

July

'On a Knife Edge - Nature in peril UK' exhibition opened at the Lettering Arts Centre, Snape Maltings. Three of my poems have been published in 'On a Knife Edge', a Suffolk Poetry Society publication linked to the exhibition: 'Lines to a Linnet' [5-2021], 'Nest-stealer' [9-2021] and 'Mustelid Encounter' [2-2021].  

A poem [28-2020] has been selected for inclusion in the Suffolk Poetry Society's 70th anniversary 'publication'. 

 

May

On a Knife Edge has just been published by Suffolk Poetry Society (inspired by The Lettering Arts Trust exhibition, 'On a Knife Edge'). The publication contains three of my poems: 'Lines to a Linnet' [5-2021], 'Nest-stealer' [9-2021] and 'Mustelid Encounter' [2-2021].

27 May: 'Crossing Borders'. I took part in the annual Suffolk Poetry Society and Poetry Wivenhoe Crossing Borders event on the theme of 'Digging up the Past'. My set comprised 'The Women of Linear B' [9-2009], 'Wildfire' [11-2020] (the eruption of Vesuvius, 79AD) and  'Sleepover at the Museum' [9-2009].   

#DylanDay 2021

My poem, 'Tentacles and Tar' [9-2019] and a 'letter' have been published in Dear Dylan, a new Dylan Thomas anthology edited by Anna Saunders and Ronnie Goodyer, and published by Indigo Dreams Publishing.

My poem, 'The Gothic Arch' [8-2021], has been published on the Immagine e Poesia Dylan Day Celebration site.

My poem, 'Buzzing from the Bushes' [9-2020], has been published in #272 of Reach Poetry, Indigo Dreams Publishing. 

April

One of my puffin photographs appears on the cover of a poetry collection, Reading Between the Lines (Littoral Press), by Neil Leadbeater.

March

I read my poem, 'Wildfire' [11-2020], at the online launch (30 March) of the new Locked Down anthology, edited by Susan Jane Sims of Poetry Space Ltd. Do consider buying this book which is raising funds for Dr Mark Sim's fund for Cancer Research UK. 

February

The new Locked Down anthology, edited by Susan Jane Sims of Poetry Space Ltd, has just been published. It contains my poem, 'Wildfire' [11-2020].

 

January 

My forthcoming poetry collection is mentioned on the NEWS section of the new website for The Seventh Quarry Press. 

 

2020

December

My poetry blog has been included in Matthew Stewart's 'Rogue Strands Poetry Blogs of the Year' list for 2020.

 

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An earlier post: CV for 2020

Previous publication: The Holy Place (2012), Poet to Poet chapbook #5, shared with John Dotson, published by The Seventh Quarry Press in conjunction with Cross-Cultural Communications, New York.

'Driftwood by Starlight' (The Seventh Quarry Press, 2021): Reviews, Mentions etc.

 

Driftwood by Starlight Launch Day, 3 August 2021

Reviews 

1. August 2021 - review by Juliet Wilson on The Crafty Green Poet site, here.  
2. Tracey Foster, whose review on Everybody's Reviewing was arranged by Dr Jonathan Taylor, Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Leicester - here.   
3. Neil Leadbeater on the Write Out Loud site - here. 
4. Neil Leadbeater in Littoral magazine #8 (ed. Mervyn Linford) - here.  
5. James Knox Whittet in Twelve Rivers (Vol.12, issue 2, Autumn/Winter2021). Twelve Rivers is the magazine of Suffolk Poetry Society.
   

Q and A Interviews

1. Questions from Maria Lloyd (@mariatlloyd) at the University of Reading about the collection. Links to the Q&As can be found here.
2. Sue Wallace-Shaddad, Secretary of Suffolk Poetry Society, In Conversation, Twelve Rivers (Vol.12, issue 2, Autumn/Winter2021). Twelve Rivers is the magazine of Suffolk Poetry Society.

 

Online Features

1. July 2021 - Writers' Online Showcase section, here.  
2. Creative Writing at Leicester blog, arranged by Dr Jonathan Taylor, Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Leicester - here.  
3. Poetry Blog Digest on Via Negativa (Dave Bonta) - here. 
4. 23 November 2021 - Newcastle University News - here. 'Alumna Publishes First Poetry Collection, Driftwood by Starlight.' 
   

 

Others Mentions and Listings

1. 31 July 2021 - The Poetry Society, Members' e-bulletin. 
2. 27 July 2021 - The Poetry School, e-newsletter. 
3. 12 July 2021 - ACW eNews, bulletin #27
4. September 2021 - In Touch (Suffolk community magazine). 
5. Autumn 2021 - Star Tips #143 (with sample poem)  

Readings

1. 3 August 2021 - Online launch and reading, with Peter Thabit Jones of The Seventh Quarry Press and guest readers, Susan Richardson, Jean Salkilld and David Gill reading their own work. 
2. 7 October 2021 - Suffolk Poetry Society National Poetry Day event in Ipswich Library, Suffolk, UK. Three poems from the collection were included in, and read out on my behalf, as part of an event on the theme of 'Choice'.  

 

 

'The Holy Place' chapbook, Published Poetry and CV (2020)

December 2020

• 'Dunwich in Winter' [28-2020] has been published in A Special Place (Tuesday Poetry anthology 2020, ed. Jean Salkilld)
• 'Song of the Christmas Camels' [71-2002] has been published in A Christmas Sparkle (St Andrew's Rushmere Mothers' Union Publication). 
  

November 2020

• 'Travellers All' [19-2020] has been published in Star Tips for Writers #140, Winter (6) 2020 (ed. Wendy Webb) 
• Joint 4th Place (Category A) in the Metverse Muse (ed. Dr H. Tulsi, India) 'Fixed Form' Roundel challenge with 'Sea Watch' [12-2019]. 'Hogmanay Blues' [6-2020]. 'The Warkworth Hermit' [10-2017], 'Winter's Knife' [12-2011], 'Unseasonal Splash' [12-2013] and 'Dragonfly Dance' [13-2013] have also been published in the journal's Diamond Jubilee isue (2020). 
• 'Yesterday's Plan' [29-2020] has been published in the November issue of Indigo Dreams Publishing. 
• I attended two online workshops at Poetry in Aldeburgh, 'Listening to the Coast' with Maria Isakova Bennett and 'Listening into Poetry' with Dr Mina Gorji.  

 

October 2020

• 'Silence on the Sand' [27-2020] has been published this month in One Planet, an online anthology edited by Linda France, Climate Writer in Residence for the University and New Writing North, as part of the 2020 Newcastle University Alumni Day of Action. 
  
• 'Migrant Hawker' [32-2012] and 'Notes from a Netting Station' [25-2013] have been published this month in Where Shallows Talk: Poetry and Prose inspired by the Paintings of Sir Alfred Munnings, edited by Dr Tim Gardiner for The Munnings Art Museum.
• 'Elegy for Idris Davies' [55/2001] is among the October 'Poems of the Month' selection on the Second Light website. 

 

September 2020

• 'Mount's Bay' [21-2020] has been published in Reach Poetry #264, Indigo Dreams Publishing. 

 

August 2020

• Two poems, [19-2020] and [21-2020], accepted for publication in Reach Poetry, Indigo Dreams Publishing.

July 2020

• Completed 'Know Your Publishing Options' course, National Centre for Writing.

June 2020

• My poem, 'Spring Fever in the South of France' [3-2019] has been awarded Second Place in the Petrarchan Sonnet Fixed Form Competition (Category A) for Metverse Muse, India. Two other poems, 'Butterfly Brooch from Raasay' [7-2017] and 'Thoughts from a Tudor Rose Garden' [4-2020] have been published in the Triple Issue 57-59 of the journal. 
• My poem, 'Wildfire' [11-2020], has been accepted for 'Locked Down: poems, diaries and art from the 2020 pandemic, an international anthology of lockdown poems' to be published by Poetry Space (ed. Sue Sims). 

May 2020

•  My poem, 'Elegy for Idris Davies' [55/2001], is now online here as part of the Poetry Library Southbank Centre's digitisation of The Seventh Quarry (ed. Peter Thabit Jones, Wales). 
•  I completed Jim Bennett's (most enjoyable) PoetryKit course on 'Nature Poetry'.
• My poem, 'Eris and the Apple' [13/2020], has been published alongside artwork by Jongo Park (South Korea) on p.69 in the 7th international eBook edition of Immagine e Poesia, edited by Huguette Bertrand (Canada) and Lidia Chiarelli (Italy). The anthology is dedicated to Lawrence Ferlinghetti to mark his 101st birthday.   

 

April 2020

• My poem, 'Bound for Sicily' [19/2017], has been published in Reach Poetry from Indigo Dreams Publishing.
• I completed Jim Bennett's (most enjoyable) PoetryKit course on 'Using Traditional Forms in Modern Poetry'.

Febuary 2020

• My poem, 'The Beachcomber' [24/2018], has been published in Reach Poetry from Indigo Dreams Publishing.

January 2020

• My poem, 'Warkworth Hermitage: a Place Apart' [29/2018], published in Reach Poetry from Indigo Dreams Publishing, was awarded 4th Place in The Box for the Readers' Vote.

 

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2020 Poetry Summary - here
2019 Poetry Summary - here
2018 Poetry Summary - here
2017 Poetry Summary - here
2016 Poetry Summary - here
2015 Poetry Summary - here
2014 Poetry Summary - here
2013 Poetry Summary - here
2012 Poetry Summary - here
2011 Poetry Summary - here

Awards, Photography, Art and older CV items - here 
 

2012: The Holy Place, Launch and Reviews - here 

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