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The Best Speculative Poetry is Intersectional
Reading from the 2024 SFPA Elgin Award Nominees This is my sixth year reviewing books from the SFPA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association) Elgin Award for best speculative poetry book. A full list of nominated books is available on the SFPA website. This year’s award chair is Felicia Martínez, who I would like to thank for diligently tracking nominations.
The Hard Switch by Owen D. Pomery
Sometimes the sign of a good book is not gelling with it straight away. It’s happened to me many times, but for whatever reason I’ve pushed through that initial uncomfortable phase and realised that, no, what I’m reading is great. The Hard Switch is one of those books. I can now say Owen D. Pomery’s latest graphic novel is a fantastic emotional SF warm hug of a story, even when the horrible stuff happens. Because, spoiler alert, it bloody well does happen.
Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park
The engine that drives Ed Park’s Same Bed Different Dreams is the philosophy of a question: what is history? Is it a series of factual events organized into a sequence after-said-fact (and what is fact? And who decides on them?) or “a litany of trackable moments, the realm of machines” (p. 3)? Is it a method of interpretation? An impulse for truth, or Truth, “‘a message from a genius, ruined by the rain’” (p. 4)? A reckoning toward justice, a curative for erasure?
SONNET FOR THE UNBELIEVER
any god—when you pray—will tell you—the last thing they want to do is turn their back—then they turn. you’re from a country where bombs have revoked bodies into void, for years; your grandma died this way. her limbs in the south, head, north, hands, east—as if showing god how to dismember a poem. It’s your turn now. the bombs have come in the same temper— you in your granny’s frame, near the spot she escalated into dust. you call upon god, a bomb dies in your face.
After World by Debbie Urbanski
The genre of After World is still often referred to (see The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction) as “The Last Man,” from its genesis in the early nineteenth century in various novels and poems using that title, including, of course, the famous work by Mary Shelley.
The Spindle of Necessity
Andrew was convinced the writer had been trans. By this point his friends were tired of hearing about it, but he had no one else to tell besides the internet, and he was too smart for that. That would be asking for it. Samantha Finnes was a minor historical novelist, unknown outside queer circles. In the mid-50s she’d written three books set during the World Wars.
The Lunar Colony AI Begins to Build a Monument to the Programmer’s Father
1. You’ve seeded me with a rock your father caught in light angled by your mother’s anger: it’s minute, isn’t it, but there, gravity lensing some past moment, creating illusions that things happened or that they happened all at once— the effect is small, and you’ve asked me not to dwell on unimportant details. Not a rock. Or not just. A menhir, a standing stone, raised to align with sunrise on some ancient summer solstice. Or not just that: his image of it.
Art, Archaeology, and Artificial Intelligence Part III, The Exhibit and...
Interview Interstellar Flight Press: To return to the initial questions that drove the project, you mention in the conference video the current state of and potential for human/robot swarm interactions in public, such as in the workplace. Your team has taken the research from the psychology lab to the art gallery. Art makes us pay attention and makes the familiar unfamiliar. Through art, we see the world differently.
STEM, Women Scientists, and Sexism
Interview Interstellar Flight Press: You mention in the acknowledgments for your book, Mathematics for Ladies, that a lecture by Professor Barbara Whitten of the Colorado College physics department about Sarah Frances Whiting sparked both the poem about Whiting as well as the larger project. How did the project evolve out of that poem? And how did you choose the scientists you feature in the collection?
Dancing Princesses, Fairy Tales, and Portal Fantasies
Interview An Interview with Andrea Blythe, author of Twelve Cover art by Yana Germann Continuing our series of interviews with speculative poets, today T.D. Walker chats with Andrea Blythe, author of Twelve (2020, Interstellar Flight Press). Andrea has been a regular in the speculative poetry scene for several years now, with her popular blog and a long list of outstanding poetry publications.
Interview with Catherine Moore, Borrowings of the Shan Van Vocht
An Interview with Catherine Moore, Author of Borrowings of the Shan Van Vocht Despite what we may want to hide, the landscape holds memory. Catherine Moore’s chapbook Borrowings of the Shan Van Vocht (Unsolicted Press, April 14, 2020) explores the phenomenon of bog bodies — human cadavers mummified by peat bogs. The poems in the book are named after the bog, melting and churning, which exhumed them.
Another New Calligraphy
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Ballet, Suburbia, & Death Metal
Interview An interview with Cassandra Rose Clarke, Author of Sacred Summer In the empty halls of a house on the edge of the woods, a dancer faces the aftermath of a career-ending injury and subsequent divorce. Twenty years earlier, on the land where her house would be built, two boys died violently and mysteriously while recording a music video for their band, leaving one survivor.
Conversations with Speculative Poets: Christina M. Rau
The Conversations with Speculative Poets Series features interviews with writers of science fiction and fantasy poetry. For the second post in the series, I spoke with poet Christina M. Rau about her 2017 collection Liberating The Astronauts, published by Aqueduct Press. Christina M.
Conversations with Speculative Poets: Kristi Carter
Welcome to Conversations with Speculative Poets. In this series, I’ll talk with science fiction, fantasy, and horror poets about crafting individual poems, shaping poetry collections, and how their work addresses present day issues through speculative genres. For the first post in the series, I spoke with poet Kristi Carter about her 2017 collection Cosmovore, published by Aqueduct Press.
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