Monday, 5 November 2012

Published Writing 2012

Changes for 2012: I am now keeping specific records on a personal database so I may not feel the need to update Sections 1-10 (see list below) on this site.
Editors and others: if you see a poem title that might fit with an anthology theme or be of interest in some way, please feel free to contact me via the comments box or via the email on my profile page here. Thank you. 

2012 Updates . . . Publication of 'The Holy Place' by John Dotson and Caroline Gill

'The Holy Place' Launch Reading: co-author John Dotson,
publisher Peter Thabit Jones and me, Dylan Thomas Birthplace, Swansea


“Caroline Gill’s poems are written with an unerring sense of appropriate form. This makes her perception of landscapes and seas emerge all the more powerfully, as she explores places in people and people in places, the ‘rocks and stones and trees’ of Wordsworth’s poem. The effect is that of an enquiring, exciting mind, disciplined and accurate, yet also open to the magical and mysterious that lies just beneath the surface.” 
J.R. Watson, University of Durham, 2012

“Caroline has 18 poems in a chapbook, 'The Holy Place' ... I really enjoyed reading them and am sure you will too."  
Ronnie Goodyer in 'Reach Poetry' #170, Editor of Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2012
                             
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November 2012: ADVANCE NOTICE
  •  All welcome! Suffolk Launch of 'The Holy Place' at Arlington's in Ipswich, UK, during the Poetry Cafe Evening on Tuesday 6 November, 7pm (small admission fee to Poetry Cafe).
October 2012:
  • 'Haiku: dockbound' [118/2001] has been included in 'Kamesan's World Haiku Anthology on War, Violence and Human Rights Violation' compiled by Dimitar Anakiev, with artwork by Kuniharu Shimizu. The anthology, which will be published in 2013, contains Haiku from 45 countries (6 continents), written in 34 languages including English.  
  • 'Thalatta, Thalatta' [18/2008] listed as an example of Folding Mirror Poetry on Professor Lewis Turco's 'Form of the Week' page ... here. 
  • Foreword, 'The Palindrome Poem and Folding Mirror Poetry: Some Introductory Thoughts', published in Dr Marc Latham's book and eBook for Kindle, '242 Mirror Poems and Reflections' (2012). 
  • Read 'Rock Art at Cresswell Crags' [8/2006] at Arlington's Poetry Cafe, Ipswich 
  • Poetry Workshop delivered on 25 October to writing group at Gainsborough Community Library, Ipswich, on the theme of 'Creatures of the Night'.
  • 'Follow the Star' [36/2010] published in 'TIPS for Writers' #92 (ed. Wendy Webb, 2012) 
  • Attended 'Now all Roads lead to France', a talk about the last years of Edward Thomas by Matthew Hollis, organised by the Suffolk Poetry Society.
 September 2012:
  • 'Coat Collage' [17/2012] poem and original artwork accepted for the forthcoming Ekphrastic Issue of The Ghazal Page (ed. Gino Peregrini)  
  • Read from 'The Holy Place' at Gainsborough Community Library, Ipswich (20 Sept 2012, writing workshop) ... 'Elegy for Idris Davies' [55/2001] and 'Isabella Tiger Moth greets the Woolly Bear Caterpillar' [42/2009].  
  • Submitted three poems for Antologia 3, Orizont Literar Contemporan, Romania ('Daydreaming at Clouds Hill' [29/2002] about Lawrence of Arabia, 'Trade Winds' [33/2009] about slavery and '1st May: Red Kite at Strata Florida' [10/2008])

August 2012:
  • Read from my chapbook, 'The Holy Place', co-authored with John Dotson, and published by The Seventh Quarry Press in 2012 (ed. Peter Thabit Jones) in conjunction with Cross-Cultural Communications of New York (ed. Stanley H. Barkan). Series: number 5 in 'Poet to Poet' series. Date - 22 August. Venue - 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, Dylan Thomas Birthplace, Swansea.
  • 'Cuckoo Song' [22/2009] published in The Dawntreader, #019 Summer 2012, about the Scottish poet, William Ross. 
  • Read 'Shaft of Light, Circle of Stone' [23/2002] (about Barbara Hepworth's studio in St Ives) at Arlington's Poetry Cafe in Ipswich - on the theme of 'Found'.  

July 2012 
  • Awarded title of 'Best Fixed Form Poet 2011' by Metverse Muse (ed. Dr. H. Tulsi, Visakhapatnam, India, Founder-Leader of the World Renaissance for Classical Poetry). My winning poems were a Terzanelle, 'King of the Kilt Rock Cloud' [28/2010] (about Kilt Rock on Skye) and a Rubai, 'Life's Silken Thread' [27/2010]
  • 'Vagrant Emperor' [1/2012] published in 'Cornwall - an anthology of poetry and photographs' (editor Les Merton, photography by Angelicia) ISBN 978-1-906845-38-4
  • 'Haiku: a dark day' [12/2012] was voted 7th in the 3rd International Haiku Kukai (kigo: rainbow) ... here on 'Catching the Moment'. Organisers, Rita Odeh (Nazareth) and John Daleiden. There were 145 haiku from 59 haijin, representing 16 countries.
  • 'Haiku: rain outside' [15/2012] was voted 10th Equal in the 4th International Haiku Kukai (kigo: forget-me-not) here on 'Catching the Moment'. Organisers, Rita Odeh (Nazareth) and John Daleiden. There were 124 haiku from 54 haijin, representing 21 countries.
  • Had an Olympic Games couplet on the #relaypoem Twitter list and on the Poetry Society website (for 31 July, now removed!) 
  • Read 'Topsy Turvy' [40/2005] (written for Disability Arts in Swansea) and 'Blue Monkeys of Thera' [26/2004] at Arlington's Poetry Cafe in Ipswich - on the theme of '(Olympic) flame'.  
  • 'On Emily's Moor' [13/2004] features on the Brontë Blog to mark what would have been Emily Brontë's 194th birthday on 30 July 2012 
Previous activity can be found ...
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Caroline Gill ~ Poetry CV Summary



2012: Chapbook Collection
  • Poet to Poet #5: The Holy Place by John Dotson and Caroline Gill (see: POET TO POET CHAPBOOK SERIES, published by Peter Thabit Jones of THE SEVENTH QUARRY SWANSEA POETRY MAGAZINE and Stanley H. Barkan of CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS, NEW YORK) 
1972-2012: Awards
2002-2012: Poetry Positions

  • 2009-2012 Press card holder and 'Contributor from Wales'/'External Collaborator' for Contemporan Orizont Literar / Contemporary & Literary Horizon [C&LH], a bilingual Romanian magazine (Director in Romania, Mihai Cantuniari; Editor-in-chief based in Romania, Daniel Dragomirescu. External collaborator for USA, Peggy Landsman)
  • 2008-2009 Petra Kenney Poetry Competition Representative for Wales.
  • 2002-2007 Co-leader of Ready Writers Swansea, with David Gill.
Published Poetry 
(N.B. Poetry published since 2010 has been documented on a personal database (supplied under the name of 'Bento', for any who may be interested ...)

2010
Section 1: Poetry in magazines (2010)
Section 2: Poetry in anthologies (2010)
Section 3: Poetry in eBooks (2010)
Section 4: Poetry accepted for publication in magazines (2010)
Section 5: Poetry accepted for publication in anthologies (2010)
Section 6: Poetry accepted for publication in electronic magazines and blogs (2010)
Section 7: Poetry on CD and DVD, in media etc. (2010)
Section 8: Poetry in electronic magazines and blogs (2010)
Section 9: Poetry in pamphlets, leaflets and sheets (2010)
Section 10: Poetry readings (2010)

2009
Section 1: Poetry in magazines (recent/current, 2008-2009)
Section 2: Poetry in anthologies (2008-2009)
Section 3: Poetry in eBooks (2008-2009)
Section 4: Poetry accepted for publication in magazines (2009)
Section 5: Poetry accepted for publication in anthologies (2009)
Section 6: Poetry accepted for publication in electronic magazines and blogs (2009)
Section 7: Poetry on CD and DVD, in media etc. (2009)
Section 8: Poetry in electronic magazines and blogs (2009)
Section 9: Poetry in pamphlets, leaflets and sheets (2009)
Section 10: Poetry Readings (-2009)

2009-2010: Other Writing
Section A: Reviews (2009-2010)
Section B: Published Interviews (2009-2010)
Section C: Articles (2009-2010)
Section D: Media (2008-2010)

Pre 2009
: Poems and Listings on the Web

 

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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

 

For Awards, Photography, Art and older CV items, please click here. 

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Participants at the first Swansea International Poetry Festival, June 2011

    Saturday, 3 November 2012

    2017: Poetry through the Year


    December 2017

    November 2017
    • 'Treasure Hulk' [3/2017] has been published in Herrings, the Poetry in Aldeburgh anthology, edited by Nancy Warburg Astor and Andrew Hewish and published by Blue Door Press.
    • 'After the Storm' [23/2017] has been published in the November issue of Reach Poetry, Indigo Dreams Publishing.
    • 'Hawker's Hut' [25/2016] and 'Words from the Hygroscope' [18/2017] have been published in Our Favourite Poems, a Christmas pamphlet in aid of the Alzheimer's Society from the Tuesday Poetry group in Swansea.
    • My review of Out of the Silence: Memories, Poems, Reflections (SPCK 2016) by Terry Waite CBE has been published in Twelve Rivers (autumn 2017), the magazine of Suffolk Poetry Society

    October 2017
    • Thanks are due to Steve Pottinger who read my poem, 'Penwith Finger Stone' [20/2017] on my behalf at the prize-giving event and Milestone Society AGM in Long Compton on 7 October 2017 (see Greg Freeman's report here). My poem had taken Third Prize in the Milestones Competition, run by Write Out Loud on behalf of the Milestone Society and judged by Brian Patten (whose anthology, 'The Mersey Sound', co-authored with Roger McGough and Adrian Henri has just has its 50th anniversary). 
    • Two poems accepted for Reach Poetry, Indigo Dreams Publishing.
    • The staff at Disability Arts Cymru have produced an iBook of poems that rose to the top in their 2016 competition on the dual themes of austerity/extravagance. My poem, 'A Drop in the Ocean' [20/2016], which was awarded First Prize, was inspired by 'Shoreline Symphonies', a piece of artwork by Eileen Harrisson 

    September 2017
    • ¡Cornucopia! Alde Valley Festival - a poetry event with Suffolk Poetry Society and Rebecca Goss. We enjoyed Rebecca's brilliant workshop on the art of 'making' and her two reading slots. I read two of my poems, 'The Women of Linear B' [15/2005], and one about wood carving [2/2008].
    •  Poems published in Metverse Muse, #47-49 (ed. Dr. H. Tulsi, Visakhapatnam, India): 'A Wand of Willow' [14/2016] and 'Bissoe Valley' [5/2016] 
    • I took part in a wildlife/natural world 'Spirit of the Stour' Festival reading at a Poetry Recital in The Munnings Museum on Friday 8 September at 18.30 hrs. The event was arranged by Dr Tim Gardiner, 2017 Poet-in-Residence at the museum. The readers were Ian Griffiths, Sue Wallace-Shaddad, Rebecca Goss, Judith Wolton, Alex Davis, Alex Toms, David Gill, Matt Annis, Emily Hasler, Gerry Donlon and Caroline Gill. Poems in my set: 'Bright August Blues' [17/2015], 'Pepys Island' [12/2014], 'Moonshine' (Snowy Owl) [23/2010] and 'Migrant Hawker' [23/2012].  
    • My poem, 'Penwith Finger Stone' [20/2017], has been awarded Third Prize in the Milestones Competition, run by Write Out Loud on behalf of the Milestone Society and judged by Brian Patten (whose anthology, 'The Mersey Sound', co-authored with Roger McGough and Adrian Henri has just has its 50th anniversary). 
    • 'collecting dulse' [22/2017] has been published in The Cherita #3 (eBook 2017 vol i. Find Me) p.188...

    August 2017
    • My poem, 'Pareidolia People' [11/2017], was published in the August edition of Reach Poetry, #227, Indigo Dreams Publishing.   
    • My urban bird DIVERSIFLY post (#15), Wild Surprise on the Ipswich Waterfront, is up on Nadia Kingsley's Fair Acre blog.  

    July 2017
    • Guest reader at 'Poems at The Deanery' in Bury St Edmunds. I invited David (Gill) to join me as my guest reader. The evening was hosted by Michael Apichella and Maria Apichella. 
    • 'Tanka: a broken bottle' [16/2011] was published in The Colour of Poetry (a visual anthology by disabled writers and artists facilitated by arts care and supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Northern Health and Social Care Trust). 
    • My celebration of the Romanian literary journal, 'Orizont Literar Contemporan' has been published in the 60th anniversary issue. 

    June 2017
    • 'Hawker's Hut' [25/2016] has been published in the June edition of Reach Poetry #225, Indigo Dreams Publishing.
    • 6 June: read my anti-slavery poem, 'Trade Winds' [33/2009], at the Ipswich Poetry Cafe (theme: liberation), which took place in the beautifully restored church of St Mary at the Quay, now known as Quay Place.  

    May 2017
    • Attended the launch of the Stanley Spencer Poems, An Anthology (published by Two Rivers Press) at the Cookham Festival. I read my anthology poem, 'On Reflection' [22/2016], in response to Spencer's painting, 'The Harbour, St Ives'.  
    • Attended the 4th Festival of Suffolk Poetry and read 'A Drop in the Ocean' [20/2016] [22/2016]. I enjoyed a workshop on music and poetry led by Gregory Warren Wilson. Terry Waite CBE was one of the guest Festival Readers. 
    • My poem, 'Scales of Sorrow' [12/2017], paired with Jongo Park's artwork, 'Voice of the Sea', has been published in the 2017 eBook anthology of the Immagine e Poesia movement. Huguette Bertrand and Lidia Chiarelli were the editors. 
    • I read '1st May: Red Kite at Strata Florida' [10/2008] at Arlington's Poetry Cafe on 2nd May. 
    • Two poems, [25/2016] and [11/2017] accepted for Reach Poetry, Indigo Dreams Publishing.

    April 2017
    • 'Lost' [6/2017] has been published in Reach Poetry #223, Indigo Dreams Publishing. I read this poem at Arlington's Poetry Cafe on 4 April. 
    • Awarded Third Prize for my kyrielle, 'Grace and Gratitude' [30/2015], in the Best Fixed Form Poet of the Year Competition for Metverse Muse (ed. Dr. H. Tulsi, India). 
    • 'First Pressing, Hadrian's Villa' [14/2017] has received a Highly Commended in the Binsted Arts 'Harvest' Competition.  

    March 2017
    • 'Shepherd's Hut, Sutton Hoo' [20/2015] was published in advance of UNESCO World Poetry Day in a Saturday supplement of poems from East Anglia in the EADT/EDP for 18 March 2017.
    • Two poems, [6/2017] and [31/2015],have been accepted for publication in Reach Poetry, Indigo Dreams Publishing.
    • Four short poems [3/2016], namely three Tanka, 'sunfish and dolphins', 'ripples...' and 'your song...' - plus one Haiku, 'twilight walk', have been published in wild voices, an anthology of short poetry and art by women, edited by Caroline Skanne of wildfower poetry press
    • I read 'Lament of a Lewis Chessman' [23/2010] at the Suffolk Poetry Society AGM.   

    February 2017
    • I am the poet in profile in the 'Poet Profile' slot in the current edition of The Seventh Quarry #25 (winter/spring 2017, ed. Peter Thabit Jones) on p.39. My piece includes an interview and four of my poems - [8/2014], [17/2015], [24/2016] and [1/2017].
    • 'Salubrious Passage' [16/2016], published in Reach Poetry #221, Indigo Dreams Publishing.
    • 'On Reflection' [22/2016] to be published in the (Cookham Festival) Stanley Spencer Poetry Anthology.

    January 2017
    • 'Barn Owl, Flatford' [2/2016], published in Reach Poetry #219, Indigo Dreams Publishing, took Second Place (£15 prize) in the Readers' Votes for the December issue.  
    • I received a 'Commended' in the 2016 Indigo Dreams Publishing Pamphlet Prize.  
    • 'Paper Princess' [26/2013] published in Star Tips 117 (ed. Wendy Webb)
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