Time Wears Boots & other poems by Shay Rose is a collection of poetry that centres around a single narrator, who reflects on (her) life and yearns for more. This is a story about the emotional swings experienced when she realizes that in order to pursue everything she wants to in her life, change needs to occur.
Read MoreJOHN JAMES (alias F.J. Page), is a Warwickshire-born musician, poet, playwright and author. He has always had a vast interest in literature, vintage aesthetics, jazz music and many other bizarre and eccentric things. While he may spend his time teaching and music making, he also finds many moments to sit down and put pen to paper. As well as writing poetry, he has also written radio drama scripts, and novellas of different genres; but mainly focusing on crime thrillers or espionage fuelled plots, as well as the odd journal entry on various topics. He is very excited to have a collection of his work published by such a wonderful company.
Read MoreInspired by an article on Fawn Press’s blog about the health and transparency of the publishing community, we decided to write our own version of that, as we often get asked why we don’t pay our anthology contributors. We are committed to being open and honest with our community members and to building lasting relationships with them that way.
Read MoreIt’s no secret that the written word has power. After all, the ability to communicate through writing is one of the things that sets humans apart from other animals. But did you know that writing can also have a profound impact on your mental and physical health?
Read MoreEmma Williamson is a fiction writer and poet from Toronto. Her short fiction has been published by Dark Moon Digest and Toasted Cheese Literary Journal, and her poetry has appeared in several anthologies. She has received various writing prizes, including being selected as a finalist for Canada’s prestigious 2020 Alice Munro Short Story Prize.
Read MoreBeauty doesn’t always come from peace. My favourite poems are written by people who intimately knew pain. In my own work, I find the same thing; my most relatable poems are born from pain. While poets like Sylvia Path spoke of their mental anguish, I had a unique take on pain poetry. I have spent the last several years writing about Endometriosis, Fibromyalgia, Gastroparesis, and more.
Read MoreAll poetry is good if you like it. People laugh at Rupi Kaur and say her poems are no good, and yet they are read by many people, and she makes her money out of poetry. The people who often sneer at her are literary professionals and academics who make money out of teaching because only their friends and pupils ever get to read their work. Kaur’s work is not my thing at all, but at least she is a true poet who lives by her words. Just like the many typewriter poets in the US and elsewhere, as well as poetry on Instagram, the work is read by ordinary people, not just students of poetry in educational institutions or posh poetry magazines. I want all sorts of people to read and enjoy my work if possible.
Read MoreFor those of you that have been living under a rock for the past couple of years, Pinterest is a visual discovery engine for finding ideas like recipes, home and style inspiration, and more. Everyone and their mother has a Pinterest account nowadays. In this article, we show you how you can use Pinterest to gain more traction for your poetry work.
Read MoreIf you are looking for a collection of poems that allows your heart to indulge in the glistening simplicities around you, The Colour Of Hope does so through an original and gorgeous method. Collated as poems that are specifically written for friends of hers, Jen Feroze cleverly includes personalised imagery to spark joy for both the recipient and the reader. Written during the pandemic, it guaranteed to ignite lost hope, whilst providing scintillating reminders of the beautiful world around us. Despite us moving on from lockdowns and isolations, Feroze has designed the collection in such a way that it can be adored in any era.
Read MoreAbout 10 years ago I came down with a highly contagious infection that what we in the UK call 'Mumps'. I had been vaccinated against it as a child so my case was rare; I was asked to send a saliva sample in the post so the NHS could track the number of diagnoses. Suffice to say, waking up in the middle of the night to a feeling much akin to having been punched in the side of the head and - upon looking in the mirror - seeing that your face is three times its normal size does not spark joy.
Read MoreOnce, when I was a little girl, we were renovating the flooring in our house and I gathered the leftover parquet pieces; I glued them together so that I’d make furniture for my doll house. My doll house was an empty cupboard in my room. Limits make you creative, clever and skilful; they expand your imagination to go beyond the boundaries of your current reality.
Read MoreJai M Louissen is a Scottish-born poet, now living via London in the coastal natural beauty of The Netherlands. Having spent time composing songs and music as a singer, recording artist and performer, her work began as a longing to be closer to her own inner world.
Read MoreA hard rain falls,
turning sunlight
into a prismatic shower.
As time loses its axis,
every step
is imbued with history,
every hole in the glass
becomes a galaxy,
every widened pupil
a black hole—
echoing:
Only a decade ago, poetry was not meant to bring in money. If you were in a creative writing class 10 or 15 years back, every professor of poetry would have told you the same story, “You do not write poetry to earn money.” Whether art was for art’s sake or it was aimed at teaching and delighting people, it was not supposed to be a replacement of a profession for earning a livelihood.
Read MoreKaci Skiles Laws wrote her first haiku in third grade about a giraffe. Years later, she wrote her first accomplished poem about her barn cat, Tinkerbell, who later died after getting attacked by her brother’s Jack Russell. The day her mom came to tell her the news she already knew. At the time, she didn’t understand she had the gift of clair cognizance, sometimes referred to as a sixth sense. As a little girl she was perceptive and sensitive in ways her mom respected as true insight, while other, insensitive people didn’t believe her or called her dramatic.
Read MoreIf you are reading this, then most probably you have been writing poetry for a while now and feel kind of ready to bring your collection together. But how to decide which poems go into it and which don’t? And how many poems are enough? These are important questions and I will try to answer them below based mostly on my own experience as a self-published poetess.
Read MoreChristina Hennemann is a writer and teacher based in the beautiful West of Ireland. She grew up in Germany and started writing her first English poems at the age of six with the help of a dictionary. Since moving to Ireland, she has been writing professionally. Her work has appeared in orangepeel, Anti-Heroin Chic, Goats Milk, Free Verse Revolution Lit, Tír na nÒg and elsewhere.
Christina writes about the subconscious mind, trauma, the healing power of nature and spirituality and relationships.
Read MoreSean Tierney is a poet and solar etched printmaker currently based in Florida. Born and raised in New England, Sean developed a love for nature that permeates nearly all of his written works. In 2009, he became involved with Ra Press of Vermont and released six collections of poetry in the Green Mountain and Adirondack regions. In 2018 and 2019 he was a contest judge for the Poetry Society of South Carolina.
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