Poetry Summary (2019)

  

2019

December 2019

• My poem, 'Warkworth Hermitage: a Place Apart' [29/2018] was published in Reach Poetry from Indigo Dreams Publishing.

 

November 2019

• I read two poems, 'Storm and Steam' [5/2019] (from the new anthology) and 'Penwith Fingerstone' [20/2017], at the launch event of Port in the Peter Pears Gallery on Friday 8 November at Poetry in Aldeburgh. Port is a new book, produced and published by MW Bewick and Ella Johnston of Dunlin Press. Copies can be purchased here. Cover image design: Ella Johnson.

 

 October 2019

• Poem, 'Carleon Cove' [10/2019], has been pinned to the Places of Poetry map. 
• My poem-and-letter submission [9/2019] has been accepted for the Indigo Dreams Publishing 'Dear Dylan' anthology (to be edited by IDP poet and Cheltenham Poetry Festival Director, Anna Saunders).
• My poem, 'Trim, the most affectionate of friends' [23/2018], has been published in the October issue, #253, of Reach Poetry from Indigo Dreams Publishing. Also in #253 I was interested to read the published comments from Angela Porter concerning my sestina, 'Scales of Silence' (publication details below), and pauses in the reconstructed music of Athanaeus from Ancient Greece. Thank you, Angela.  

 

September 2019

• The September issue of Reach Poetry from Indigo Dreams Publishing revealed that my poem, 'Scales of Silence', took First Place in the Reach Poetry readers' vote for August. 

 

August 2019

• My poem, 'Two Shepherds in Tam-O'-Shanters' [25/2018], has been awarded First Place (Category A) in the Terza Rima Contest for the Metverse Muse, 54th to 56th Triple Issue, ed. Dr. H. Tulsi, India. 
• Two poems, '2nd February at Greyfriars, Dunwich' [20/2019] and 'Cockle Women' [7/2006], have been included in Metverse Muse, 54th to 56th Triple issue, June 2019 (ed. Dr. H. Tulsi, India). 
• My sestina, 'Scales of Silence', has been published in Reach Poetry, #251.

 

 June 2019

• My poem, 'The Atlas Moth' [36/2018], has been published in Reach Poetry, #249.

 

May 2019

• My poem, 'Afternoon Tea in The Guggenheim' [4/2019] has been included in the 2019 Immagine e Poesia E Book anthology, edited by Huguette Bertrand and Lidia Chiarelli. The international anthology of poems paired with artworks is a birthday tribute to Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
• 'Puffin's Assembly' [15/2016] awarded an Honourable Mention in the Orbis (ed. Carole Baldock) Readers' Awards for #186. 
• 6th Festival of Suffolk Poetry (11 May): I attended a workshop led by Grevel Lindop on the 'Music of Place', and read two poems, my milestone one [5/2019] and [5/2019], with Felixstowe Cafe Poets on the theme of 'Earth and Space Matters'.  
• Featured Poet of the Month in the poetry pages for FreeXpresSion (ed. Peter Pike and Catherine Lee), Australia. Poems included in the feature:  [15/2015], [13/2017], [20/2015], [1/2000], [13/2004], [13/2013], [6/2015] and [14/2016].  

 

April 2019

• My harbour poem [5/2019] has been accepted for inclusion in Port, the forthcoming anthology from Dunlin Press.

 

March 2019

• Attended the AGM of Suffolk Poetry Society and read 'Puffin's Assembly' [15/2016] (see below under February) at the post-meeting Reading on Exits and Entrances. 
• My poem, 'Elegy for Idris Davies' [55/2001], is one of the featured poems for February on the Second Light Live website - here (and scroll down a little).   
• 'Afternoon Tea in The Guggenheim' [4/2019] has been accepted for the 2019 Immagine e Poesia E Book, edited by Huguette Betrand and Lidia Chiarelli. 

 

February 2019

• 'Puffin's Assembly' [15/2016] published in Orbis #186 (ed. Carole Baldock).

 

January 2019

• '(W)hole Thoughts at Men-an-Tol' [35/2018] published in Reach Poetry, #244 (ed. Ronnie Goodyer), Indigo Dreams Publishing, January 2019
• [15/2015], [13/2017], [20/2015], [1/2000], [13/2004], [13/2013], [6/2015] and [14/2016] for the poetry pages for FreeXpresSion (ed. Peter Pike and Catherine Lee), Australia.   

 

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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

 

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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 ...

• here (2012) 
• here (2011)

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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

• Section i: Prizes and Commendations (2009-2012) 
• Section ii: Prizes and Commendations (1972-2008)  
• Section iii: First Prize (Gen. Section) Petra Kenney International Poetry Competition (2007)

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

 

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Participants at the first Swansea International Poetry Festival, June 2011

[2009] Section 1: Poetry in Magazines (Recent/Current, 2008-2009)

WALES/CYMRU

‘Mah-jong: Clattering Sparrow’ The Seventh Quarry (ed. Peter Thabit Jones, 2008)

‘Blue Monkeys of Thera’ The Seventh Quarry (ed. Peter Thabit Jones, publication forthcoming)

'Paths of Righteousness' Sketty Beacon (ed. Dr P. Steane, April/May 2009)

'1st May: Red Kite at Strata Florida' The Seventh Quarry issue 10 (ed. Peter Thabit Jones, Summer 2009)

‘Noel, Noel' Sketty Beacon (ed. Dr P. Steane, December 2009)

ENGLAND

‘The Figure at the Phoenix Mine’ Writing Magazine (Competitions Supplement) 2008 (See: Petra Kenney Prize & Petra Kenney Competition)

Haiku for MMG (‘Painted Lady ...') Tips #67 (ed. Wendy Webb, Wendy Webb Books, July/August 2008)

'Cargo of Memories' The Poetry Church (ed. John Waddington-Feather, Summer 2008)

‘Mount Grace: heads and Tails’ Tips #68 (ed. Wendy Webb, Wendy Webb Books, September/October 2008).
Joint 1st in readers' vote. (See: blog about Mount Grace stoats in winter)


'Eye Shine' Reach Poetry #127 (ed. Ronnie Goodyer)

'Aberglasney' [H] Tips for Writers #71 summer 2009 p.14 (ed. Wendy Webb, Norfolk Poets and Writers)

'Sea Scribe' Reach Poetry (editors Ronnie Goodyer and Dawn Bauling, Reach Poetry 128, Indigo Dreams Press, May 2009)
3rd prize from readers' votes.

'Shell Keeper' The Dawntreader (editors Ronnie Goodyer and Dawn Bauling, #007, Indigo Dreams Press, Summer 2009)

'Gold' The Dawntreader (editors Ronnie Goodyer and Dawn Bauling, #008, Indigo Dreams Press, Autumn 2009, p.27)

'Dusk at Dozmary Pool' Reach Poetry (editors Ronnie Goodyer and Dawn Bauling, Reach Poetry 133, Indigo Dreams Press, October 2009)

'Poltesco' Tips for Writers Winter 2009 (ed. Wendy Webb, Norfolk Poets and Writers, #74 Xmas Special)

'The Messiah and the Magi' Tips for Writers Winter 2009 (ed. Wendy Webb, Norfolk Poets and Writers, #74 Xmas Special)

CORNWALL/KERNOW

'Marazion' Poetry Cornwall/Bardhonyeth Kernow #25 (ed. Les Merton, 2009)

'Echo from the West' Poetry Cornwall/Bardhonyeth Kernow #26 (ed. Les Merton, 2009)

INDIA

‘On Emily's Moor' Metverse Muse (ed. Dr H. Tulsi, Visakhapatnam, India, Silver Jubilee Issue, March 2009 p.112).
First published in The Seventh Quarry #1 (ed. Peter Thabit Jones, 2004/2005)

'Velvet Shadows in Venice' Metverse Muse (ed. Dr H. Tulsi, Visakhapatnam, India, Silver Jubilee Issue, March 2009, p.112)
First published in Writing Magazine (ed. Hilary Gray, November 2004)


'Manifesto for the Red Kite' Metverse Muse (ed. Dr H. Tulsi, Visakhapatnam, India, Silver Jubilee Issue, March 2009 p.112)
First published in Panda, 2002

ROMANIA
My thanks to Alina-Olimpia Miron
for translating the following poems into Romanian.

'A Stone Romance' / 'O idilă pietroasă' Contemporan Orizont Literar/Contemporary & Literary Horizon [C&LH] (Director, Mihai Cantuniari; Editor-in-Chief, Daniel Dragomirescu, No.5 (10) June 2009 p.6-9). Previously published in:

• Reach Poetry (ed. Ronnie Goodyer, Indigo Dreams Press) Oct 2007
• eTIPS 2 (ed. Wendy Webb, Wendy Webb Books) Feb 2009
• Norfolk Poets & Writers blog (ed. Wendy Webb) Feb 2009
  

'Boat House Cat' / 'Pisica din hangar' Contemporan Orizont Literar/Contemporary & Literary Horizon [C&LH] (Director, Mihai Cantuniari; Editor-in-Chief, Daniel Dragomirescu, No.5 (10) June 2009 p.6-9). Previously published in:

• Poetry Monthly special edition, ‘Seaside Towns’, dedicated to Tsunami victims (ed. Martin Holroyd) Feb 2005
  

'Manifesto for the Red Kite' / 'Manifest pentru Zmeul Roşu' Contemporan Orizont Literar/Contemporary & Literary Horizon [C&LH] (Director, Mihai Cantuniari; Editor-in-Chief, Daniel Dragomirescu, No.5 (10) June 2009 p.6-9). Previously published in:

• Panda Magazine (ed. Esmond Jones) Oct 2002
• Metverse Muse (ed. Dr H. Tulsi, India) March 2009
  

'Preseli Blue' / 'Albastru de Preseli' Contemporan Orizont Literar/Contemporary & Literary Horizon [C&LH] (Director, Mihai Cantuniari; Editor-in-Chief, Daniel Dragomirescu, No.5 (10) June 2009 p.6-9). Previously featured in:

• 'The Lie of the Land' (ed. Jan Fortune-Wood) Cinnamon Press, 2006
• BBC Poetry Please from the Guardian Hay Festival, 2008
  

'Show me the Colour of Pain' / 'Arată-mi culorea durerii' Contemporan Orizont Literar/Contemporary & Literary Horizon [C&LH] (Director, Mihai Cantuniari; Editor-in-Chief, Daniel Dragomirescu, No.5 (10) June 2009 p.6-9). A previous version was published in:

• Reach Poetry (ed. Ronnie Goodyer, Indigo Dreams Press) March 2004
  

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