Caroline Gill: Published Poetry and Writing

POETRY COLLECTION

Details of my first full poetry collection, Driftwood by Starlight (The Seventh Quarry Press, 2021), can be found here.

2022-2025: NEWS AND CONTACT DETAILS

My entry for the Hedgehog Poetry Press 'Wee Collection Challenge' has won First Prize, and will be published in due course.

My website, social media handles and contact details can be found here: Linktr.ee

I am delighted to find my poetry blog included once again on Matthew Stewart's Rogue Strands List of Best UK Poetry Blogs for 2022. Thank you, Matthew.

POETRY PUBLICATIONS AND AWARDS

Details of my poetry publications and a summary of my poetry awards can be found here.

2012: The Holy Place, Launch and Reviews - here

To buy a copy of The Holy Place (£3.50 for UK), please press the CONTACT bar here.

PRE-2022: DETAILS OF POEMS, AWARDS AND CV ITEMS

Details of poems published in 2021 can be found here.

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

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2022-2025: (MAINLY) PUBLISHED WORK

2025

May 2025

My photographic artwork (here) for #DylanDay 2025, published by Lidia Chiarelli.

April 2025

'Elemental Ecology' [36/2022]: read out on TRELLIS.

February 2025

Arvon Masterclass: Non-Fiction with Polly Atkin: Taking up residence again (18 February 2025)

January 2025

'Follow the Star' [36/2010]: read out on TRELLIS.

2024

December 2024

'Et in terra pax' [25/2017]: I read this poem out at the MAI Christmas event online on 12 December 2024.
My eco-themed train poem, 'The Fire Horse' [8-2023], has been published in Railway Lines (Tuesday Poetry, 2024).
One of ten writers with a dedicated section in Orizonturi Mondiale | World Horizons edited by Daniel Dragomirescu in his Bibliotheca Universalis series. My poems:

'Promised Land' [20/2010]
'Elemental Ecology' [36/2022]
'Circumspect Penelope' [7/2021]

September 2024

'Green Tiger Beetle on Tanera Mòr' [6/2024] has been published in Reach Poetry, #307, Indigo Dreams Publishing.

June 2024

'What Big Ears' [6/2024] has been published in Exhibition Cards for Imaginary Paintings (Hedgehog Poetry Press)
'Midsummer Montage' [32/2022] has been published in Reach Poetry, #305, Indigo Dreams Publishing.
Four poems accepted, [15/2023] [18/2001] [24/2022] and [3/2022], for Metverse Muse (India)

May 2024

I took part in the Open Mic event at Suffolk Poetry Festival (10 May 2024) and read 'Tentacles and Tar' [9/2019], my villanelle written in response to 'Ears in the Turrets Hear' by Dylan Thomas and published in Dear Dylan (Indigo Dreams Publishing).
My poem, 'Underwing Encounter' [1/2024], has been included in the 'Out of the Ordinary' Exhibition mounted by Gillian Drake and the Tuesday Poets in St James' Church, Swansea.
'Mermaid in a Market' [12/2021] and 'The Littered Shore' [12/2022] have been published in Metverse Muse (#92-95).

April 2024

I have completed Jodie Hollander's 'Insects and Poetic Inspiration Masterclass' with the Poetry School.
'Over the Ocean Waves' [13/2013] has won First Place (Category A) in the Metverse Muse (#88th-91st, India) 'Rondeau' Competition.
'Watercolour Reflections' [32/2015] published in Metverse Muse (#88th-91st, India)
'Tête-à-tête' [24-2017] and 'On the Banks of the Bosporos' [5-2024] published in Metverse Muse (#88th-91st, India)

March 2024

My Common Crane poem, 'Rising Tide' [17/2013], has been republished in Reach Poetry #302, Indigo Dreams.

January 2024

I read 'Sing a Song of New Beginnings' [67-2002] at the December TRELLIS poetry gathering on 13 Jan. 2024.
Began Jodie Hollander's Poetry School course: 'Insects & Poetic Inspiration Masterclass'.

2023

December 2023

I read 'The Wood Carol' [8-2000] at the December TRELLIS poetry gathering on 9th Dec. 2023.

November 2023

Publication by Daniel Dragomirescu of my poetry profile and publicity for my collection, Driftwood by Starlight (The Seventh Quarry Press), in Retrospectiva Revistei, a new volume from the international literary journal, Orizont Literar Contemporan, in Romania.

October 2023

Publication of two poems, 'Rising Ripples' [15-2009] and 'Yellow Shell, Island of Mull' [2-2020] in Metverse Muse (India), #80-83. 'Dear Stream' [9-2023] took Joint Second Place in the Fixed Form contest (Category A) for a Burns Stanza.

July 2023

'Christmas in a Country Church' [38-2022] has been awarded Third Place in the Metverse Muse (India), #76-79, Fixed Form Kyrielle Competition.
Two poems, 'The Wreck of The Götheborg' [32-2004] and 'Harvest Moon' [27-2015] have been published in Metverse Muse (India), #76-79.
My commissioned poem, 'A Season of Blessings' [6-2023] (an acrostic list poem of the word 'summer') features in Outlook (Summer 2023). The poem is to be the inspiration for a Summer exhibition at St Andrew's Church of art, photography and flower arrangements.

June 2023

My poem, 'It Started with Ladybirds' [14-2022], has been published in Children of the Revolution Stickleback edition from the Hedgehog Poetry Press.
My poem, 'An Aspiring Apiarist Meets Virgil' [7-2023], has been published in Eating Dark Chocolate Hobnobs With W.B. Yeats Stickleback edition from the Hedgehog Poetry Press.

May 2023

I read two of my poems, 'The Fire Horse' [8-2023] and 'Treasure Hulk' [3-2017] at the 9th Festival of Suffolk Poetry Online Open Mic event on 12 May 2023.
My badger poem, 'Border Force, Twilight' [27-2018], has been published in Reach Poetry #293, Indigo Dreams Publishing.

April 2023

My eco-themed train poem, 'The Fire Horse' [8-2023], is currently on display in Coaltrain's Coffee Shop Gallery at Barry Town Station in South Wales. The poem forms part of an exhibition of railway poetry, largely provided by members of the Tuesday Poetry Group.

March 2023

My poem, 'Seeing Blue: Le Printemps (1886) by Claude Monet' [28-2022], has been published in the Spring Stickleback edition from the Hedgehog Poetry Press. The short anthology, published at the equinox, contains the winning poems from the 'spring' 2022 competition, part of the Four Seasons in Poetry project.
'Seeking Anchorage' [28-2022] has been published in #291 of Reach Poetry, Indigo Dreams Publishing.

Febuary 2023

Two poems, [28-2022] and [27-2018], have been accepted for publication in Reach Poetry.
I read out 'A Tale of Two Brothers' [31-2003] at Trellis Poetry Group.

January 2023

'My Absence, Your Winter' [26-2015] has been published in Reach Poetry #289. Update: the poem took Second Place in the Readers' Vote for this issue.
'Harvest Blues' [45-2009], 'Knight's Island, Slebech' [15-2017], 'Sandy Pylos' [27-2012] and 'Aesop's Frogs' [22-2018] have been published in #75 of Metverse Muse (ed. Dr. H. Tulsi). 'Daffodils and Chiming Bells' [22-2022] was awarded First Place (Category A) in the Metverse Muse Fixed Form (Davidian) Poetry Competition.
Read out 'Song of the Christmas Camels' [71-2002] at Trellis Poetry Group.

2022

December 2022

'One Man's River' [33-2021] is among four winning poems in the Suffolk Flora Preservation Trust Chairman's Challenge of 2022 for an acrostic sonnet.
I have just completed the online Poetry School course, 'Reading and Writing Robert Frost', tutored by Jodie Hollander.
'The Ceilidh House' [47-2009], published in Driftwood by Starlight, will feature on Unless a Seed on 10 December 2022.
'Elemental Ecology' [36-2022] published in All Creatures, the Tuesday Poets' Anthology (ed. Jean Salkilld).

November 2022

'Basking Shark Blues' [10-2021] has been published in the new Indigo Dreams Publishing anthology, Voices For The Silent, to aid the work of the League Against Cruel Sports.
'Nature and Nurture' [11-2021] has been published in #287 of Reach Poetry, Indigo Dreams Publishing.
Took part in Polly Atkin's Poetry in Aldeburgh workshop.

October 2022

I read 'Puffin's Assembly' [15-2016] at the South Lookout, Aldeburgh beach, for the SPS National Poetry Day event.
I made the Shortlist for the Candlestick Press Almanac, Twelve Poems for 2023 Competition. Poems submitted: [30-2022] and [32-2022].
'Elegy for Idris Davies' [55-2001] is one of the poems selected for October on the SecondLight website, and can be viewed here. The poem got an oblique mention in The Guardian when it was first published in The Seventh Quarry - see here.
Parts One to Five of my Poetry Q&A have now been posted by Thomas Whyte on his Poetry Mini Interviews site here.
'Stars in Suburbia' [27-2022] has been published here on Lidia Chiarelli's LUCI PER LA CITTÀ / Lights for the City site, part of a Festival of Lights, which is itself a tribute to Guido Chiarelli (1902-1982) on the 120th anniversary of his birth.

September 2022

'Navigating Knapdale' [26-2022] has been published in Reach Poetry (Indigo Dreams Publishing) in response to Ronnie Goodyer's Terza rima sonnet challenge.
Parts One and Two of my Poetry Mini Interview have been posted. The interview has been conducted in five parts by Thomas Whyte.
'Stars in Suburbia' [27-2022] has been published on Lidia Chiarelli's Lights for the City site which commemorates her father, Guido Chiarelli (1902-1982) on the 120th anniversary of his birth. Guido Chiarelli is celebrated as the man who illuminated Turin with his futuristic designs in the 1950s and 1960s.
'January Joy' [48-2003] and 'Demoiselle Dance' [25-2022] have been published in Metverse Muse #73 and 74 (India). 'To a Purple Emperor Butterfly' [10-2022] came 2nd (Category A) in the Metverse Muse Fixed Form Petrarchan Sonnet Contest.
Two poems, [11-2021] and [26-2015], have been accepted for publication in Reach Poetry (Indigo Dreams Publishing).

August 2022

My poem, 'Invitation' [15-2022], is up on Instagram (here as a video) as part of the Festival of Suffolk. Members of Suffolk Poetry Society are reading their Festival poems during August.

July 2022

My review of Where Shadows Stir by Byron Beynon has been published in The Seventh Quarry (Summer/Autumn 2022). You can buy the collection here.

June 2022

A review by Dilys Wood of Driftwood by Starlight has been published in Artemis (Second Light journal).
My poem, 'The Border' [20-2022], has been published in the anthology, Hope for Ukraine (Tim Saunders Publications, 2022). All the proceeds from the sale of the anthology are being donated to the Sunflower of Peace Foundation, a non-profit organisation committed to helping Ukrainians affected by the horrific invasion.

May 2022

My poem, 'Basking Shark Blues' [10-2021], has been accepted for publication in the second IDP anthology of Voices for the Silent.
My poem, 'Blubber, Fin and Tails' [13-2022], has been selected by Hannah Ellis and Mab Jones for the 'Love the Words' #DylanDay 2022 international eBook - here.
Another #DylanDay poem, 'Tide Notes' [16-2022], has been included in Lidia Chiarelli's 2022 presentation - here (and scroll down to the seventh piece).
I read 'Isabella Tiger Moth Greets the Woolly Bear Caterpillar' [42-2009] on the ACW TRELLIS Zoom, 14 May, on the theme of 'change'. The poem is in my collection, Driftwood by Starlight.
My poem, 'To a Roman Mouse from Vindolanda' [15-2021], published in Metverse Muse #967-69, has won me Joint First Prize with Catherine Lee in Category A of the Metverse Muse Fixed Form (Shakespearean Sonnet) Contest.
Not a poem, but my Redwing photograph features on the cover of The Gloucester Fragments (Littoral Press), a new collection by Neil Leadbeater.
My poem, 'The Border' [20-2022], has been accepted for publication in the Hope for Ukraine anthology,to be published by Tim Saunders.

April 2022

My poem, 'Leaf-cutter Bee' [20-2020], has been published in Reach Poetry #282 (Indigo Dreams Publishing) for April 2022.

March 2022

My poem, 'Et in terra pax' [25-2017], was recorded for UCB Radio (Ireland).
'Tide Notes' [16-2022] was published for #DylanDay 2022 on Lidia Chiarelli's site here (it is the sixth picture-poem on the page).

February 2022

My entry for the November 2021 Hedgehog Poetry Press 'Wee Collection Challenge' has won First Prize, and will be published.
My poem, 'A Tale of Two Owls' [29-2015], has been published in #280 of Reach Poetry (Indigo Dreams Publishing).
19th February. I read 'Dunwich in Winter' [28-2020] from Driftwood by Starlight at the ACW Trellis online poetry day.