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Website Users are reminded that these listings are taken from a 2008 issue of ARTEMISpoetry

Second Light News (from Issue 1, Nov 2008):

Dilys Wood

has a new collection out: Antarctica, Greendale Press, June 2008 and is contributing all proceeds to Second Light funds! This is a 95pp book of poems focussed on the ‘white continent’ – its challenges, heroes, environment and the significance of climate change. The book includes one long poem of 69pp, The South Pole Inn, a novella in verse about the after-lives of two polar heroes, Tom Crean and Frank Worsley. A central figure in the story is Tom’s wife, Nell. ‘Dilys interweaves a surprising amount of both feminism and love interest into her polar studies!’ Available from Dilys for £5.95 (incl UK p&p), cheques payable to “Second Light” to 9, Greendale Close, London SE22 8TG. (reviewed in this issue. Ed)

Spreading the News

We love spreading good news so members of Second Light are encouraged to let us know about their successes, publications, forthcoming events or workshops that they will be running etc. Max 60 words including contact details. 1 item per category per issue. The 5 categories are: ‘Comps & Calls’,  ‘Events, Courses & Workshops’,  ‘Publications’, ‘Other News & Successes’, ‘Resources’.

For e-notices, 2009 deadlines are: 28 February, 30 April, 30 June, 31 August and 31 October. For ARTEMISpoetry Issue 2 (May 09) the deadline is 31 March 09. Submit on-line at www.secondlightlive.co.uk/resources/submitnews.shtml or, for those without internet access, by post to Administrator, Second Light Network, c/o 20 Clovelly Way, Orpington, Kent, BR6 0WD.

SecondLightLive – Tip of the Day

Second Light Members are invited to submit a ‘Tip of the Day’ for the home page of the website. Take a look at the existing ones for a few days (right side, near the bottom of the page), to see the gist of them. Very short, quirky perhaps, and meant to spur us to whipping out our pens! Submit on-line at www.secondlightlive.co.uk/resources/submittotd.shtml (or by post, see Spreading the News)

SecondLightLive – Members’ Pages

All Second Light Members are entitled to have a page on the website. This is a showcase for your work, so why not act today? The poem you send will be entered into the on-line Poem of the Month Competition and the winner of each round is invited to have an audio file of their poem on site. Submit on-line at  www.secondlightlive.co.uk/resources/submitpage.shtml (or by post to Administrator, see Spreading the News).

ARTEMISpoetry – snippet on Paddlers for Life

from Maggie Norton: Artemis is the name given by Paddlers for Life to the dragon boat paddled by breast cancer survivors. Blackpool Chinese Association awakened the dragon spirit with drums and dragon dance to dot the eye of Artemis, in preparation for racing at Lytham Round Table’s 3rd dragon boat racing event. The Association made the semi-final, one of the fastest boats, and Lucy, the supporters boat, made the final, coming second.  Huge fun. (and see poem on Paddlers for Life website: www.paddlersforlife.co.uk/more%20about%20us.htm

ARTEMISpoetry – snippet on goddesses

ARTEMISpoetry is interested in ‘snippets’ on the theme: the moon, moon goddess(es) (Artemis, Diana), the Huntress. If you have one you’d like to air, please send it in. We looked up Asteroth and it led us to: ‘Ishtar: held to be the great Mother Goddess in ancient Assyrian and Babylonian mythology. It was believed she was the daughter of the sky-god, Anu, or the moon god, Sin.’ (courtesy of www.themystica.com).  e-mail to [email protected]


ARTEMISpoetry – submissions for Issue 2, May 09

Poetry: Women poets only. Deadline: 28 February 09. Strict submission limit: a maximum of 4 poems; the total number of lines in all should not exceed 200 lines (i.e. you could send a poem of 200 lines and this would restrict your submission to just one poem). Paper copy only to Dilys Wood, 9, Greendale Close, London SE22 8TG. Please write “ARTEMISpoetry 2” on your envelope.

Our poetry editor for Issue 2 is Penelope Shuttle.

Penelope Shuttle is a Hawthornden Fellow, a tutor for The Poetry School, the Arvon Foundation, and Second Light Network, and has judged many competitions, most recently the 2008 National Poetry Competition. She has read at numerous festivals. Her work can be heard on the Poetry Archive website and is available on CD. Her eighth collection, Redgrove’s Wife, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and the TS Eliot Award. In October 2007 she took part in the Cornwall Poets reading tour in North America. Her new collection, The Repose of Baghdad, is in preparation.

Artwork: black/white photographs or line-art, maximum of 4 pieces. Paper copy only to Dilys Wood (see Poetry) to arrive by 31 March 09.

Members’ News: to arrive by 31 March 09 (see Second Light News / Spreading the News)

REVIEWS PLANNED FOR ARTEMISpoetry Issue 2:

amongst others: collections by Moniza Alvi, Lindsay Balderson, Janet Fisher, Gillian Clarke, Valerie Clarke, Judy Gahagan, Martha Kapos, Mary Oliver, Ruth O’Callaghan, Pascale Petit, Daphne Rock, Carol Rumens, Rose Flint, Lotte Kramer, and a quartet of Lapwing Chapbooks: Vivien Jones, Katrina Porteous, Launa Robertson, Pam Russell

Comps & Calls:
Penelope Shuttle is the judge of the Cafe Writers Open Poetry Competition. Deadline 30 November 08. Prizes: 1st £750, 2nd £300, 3rd £150 and £150 of Jarrold Book Vouchers for the best poem by a permanent Norfolk resident. Entry form from www.cafewriters.org.uk

Events, Courses & Workshops:

Ceridwen Centre, Carmarthenshire
Regular and varied, single and multi-day events. Workshops, courses, bookfairs etc. Details, prices and bookings: Simone Mansell Broome e-mail [email protected]. Tel 01559 370517 or visit the Ceridwen Centre website at www.ceridwencentre.co.uk

Katherine Gallagher
‘Poetry & Voice… is now in its 9th year’. Monthly Workshops with Katherine Gallagher at Torriano, 99 Torriano Ave., Kentish Town, NW5. Saturdays, 1 to 5 pm. £17, £13 conc. Kentish Town tube. Pre-booking essential. Info: 020 8881 1418. www.katherine-gallagher.com/ [email protected] Dates for 2009: 24 January, 21 February, 21 March, 18 April, 23 May, 13 June, 18 July.

Rhythm & Muse at The Lion, Teddington, TW11. Thursday 27 November. Special open mic night, poems on theme of ‘flight’. Plus music from the dynamic Acoustic Astronauts. 8:30 to 10:30pm. £5/ £4.  Contact Alison Hill on 020 8977 4610 for details or e-mail 4610 for details or e-mail [email protected].

Rosemary McLeish
will be facilitating a workshop at the W(ild) O(ld) W(omen) exhibition at Novas Gallery, 73-81 Southwark Bridge Road, London SE1 0NQ, on 11 December, at 5 pm to 8.30 pm. E-mail Rosemary for details, [email protected] 

Publications:

Judith Allnatt
Her first novel, A Mile of River, shortlisted for the Portico Literary Prize, is published by Transworld. On a struggling farm during a suffocating drought (1976), a daughter discovers her absent mother’s diary and begins to unravel secrets. ‘A novel of rare insight, exquisitely written. A standing ovation for this debut’ (Michael Morpurgo). Details: www.judithallnatt.co.uk or contact [email protected] 

Beata Duncan
Apple Harvest, by Beata Duncan (pamphlet, 21 poems) published by Hearing Eye, sold out and has been reprinted this year. ISBN 1-870841-72-7. Copies at £3.50 from bookshops or Hearing Eye, Box 1, 99 Torriano Avenue, London, NW5 2RX.

Janet Fisher
latest collection, Brittle Bones, is published by Salt and available at a discount at their website: www.saltpublishing.com/books/. ‘Resolutely honest, trusting the plain truth to speak, Brittle Bones is a wonderfully buoyant collection'.. Mimi Khalvati. ISBN 9781844714025. £2.99. 80 pp hardback. Read a sample at www.poetrypf.co.uk/janetfisherpage.html.

A Twist Of Malice – uncomfortable poems by older women.  (ed. Joy Howard)
A collection of work by 36 contemporary poets exploring the darker side of the female imagination. Poems that disturb and disconcert but also gleam with humour and delight in subversion.  Includes several Second Light members. Good bookshops, Amazon or from poetry p f shop:  www.poetrypf.co.uk/shop.php. More at www.greyhenpress.com.

Sadly, Pam Hughes, Second Light member, died on 8 August 2008. Her 2 collections, collaborations with artists and fully illustrated with their work, are available from her husband, Ralph Taylor, 1 Elm Villas, Saxon Lane, Seaford, BN25 1QN. Tel 01323 872399. SECONDGLANCES, £4 (drawings by Ann Johnson).  SHADOWS ON THE DOWNS, £9 (paintings by Harold Mockford). Prices include p&p.

Pauline Kirk
Latest collection, Envying the Wild (illustrated by the author). Launch events in York and West Yorkshire are going well. Fighting Cock Press. Price £5.95. ISBN: 978-0-906744-31-4. Available from bookshops or from Pauline at 45, Middlethorpe Drive, York, YO24 1NA. Discount to SLN members – order direct from Fighting Cock Press at a reduced price of £5.

Denise McSheehy
has a new collection, Salt out from Poetry Can (September 2008).  Purchase details:  www.poetrycan.co.uk.  See poems at www.poetrypf.co.uk/denisemcsheehypage.html.

MR Peacocke
Her fourth collection of poems, entitled In Praise of Aunts, is the latest from Peterloo Poets and is available at £7.95 from their website: www.peterloopoets.co.uk and in the bookshops that bother with such things. Of her previous collections, Marginal Land (1988) is out of print; Selves (1995) and Speaking of the Dead (2002) are still available. (reviewed in this issue. Ed)

Dilys Wood
New Collection, Antarctica, is out (all proceeds to Second Light – see Second Light News).

Other News & Successes:

Congratulations to all our members on their successes:

Alice Beer has been awarded the Time Haiku Award, February 2008, a biannual award recently inaugurated.

Caroline Carver for winning 1st prize, The Silver Wyvern, in this year’s Poetry on the Lake Competition run by Gabriel Griffin (and to Gabriel for the continuing success of her annual festival at Lago di Orta, St Giulio, Italy). The judge this year was Jo Shapcott.

Carol DeVaughn has received a merit award in the Nottingham Open Poetry Competition, 2008, adjudicated by Julia Copus.
Rose Flint won the Cardiff International Poetry Competition: Judges UA Fanthorpe and Jo Shapcott said ‘(The Field) practically jumped out of the pile, fuelled by its own energy and exuberance... We couldn’t help reading this ecstatic litany against the background of nature under threat from human action, which adds to its impact.’

Wendy French won the 2008 Torbay Poetry Competition prize judged by Sheenagh Pugh. The results were announced at the Torbay Festival. 

Gill Learner is the winner of the Poetry Society’s Hamish Canham Poetry Prize for the best members’ poem to have appeared in Poetry News over the last four issues.

Gill McEvoy was this year’s Artistic Director of Chester Oyez! a weekend of spoken word performances as part of Chester’s Literature Festival. ‘A very exciting weekend!’

Mslexia:
Sybil Ruth won the Mslexia Poetry Competition and Patricia Ace, Carole Bromley, Berta Freistadt, Fiona Ritchie-Walker all had poems placed in it.

Kate Rhodes 
made the shortlist for the Forward prize for the ‘best Michael Donaghy poem’ with her poem, Wells-next-the-Sea (entered via The Bridport Prize).

Scintilla Open Poetry competition:
Sue McIntyre won the 1st Prize in the short poem category and Clare Holtham had a poem commended. Gabriel Griffin won the ‘long poem’ prize and Dilys Wood won the 2nd…

The winning poems will be included in Issue 13 in 2009. The current issue of Scintilla (Issue 12) is available from Dr P W Thomas, c/o ENCAP, Cardiff University, Humanities Building, Cardiff, CF10 3EU. Cheque payable to UVVA. £7.50 per copy. Several Second Light Members are featured.

Anne Stewart
has just won the 2008 Bridport Poetry Prize  – Judge: David Harsent – with ‘a nice little sonnet’. She also won 2nd prize in the Deal and Dover Poetry Competition and had a ‘highly commended’ in the Kent & Sussex Poetry Competition earlier in the year.  And she has a new website: www.annestewart.me.uk

Resources:

Brittle Star
The best in new poetry and short fiction. Well established, with a reputation for publishing talented writers at the beginning of their careers or who might have slipped the radar. Brittle Star has published Anna Robinson, Valeria Melchioretti, Anne Ryland, Valerie Josephs, Julia Lewis, Mary Michaels, Katrina Naomi and many others. Brittle Star, PO BOX 56108, London E17 0AY. www.brittlestar.org.uk

Kudos
Carole Baldock (Orbis) has advised that their old ‘Competitions’ list is now out as a publication, Kudos, with its own website and invites us to take a look: www.kudoswriting.wordpress.com.

poetry p f
Anne Stewart reports that the poetry p f  website, www.poetrypf.co.uk, now averages 100,000 hits a month… and the new on-line shop is complete – secure payment by credit card – some books, including A Twist of Malice (see Publications) and Second Light books but mostly: don’t forget your Christmas and New Year cards. Let’s get more poetry into the homes of non-poets! www.poetrypf.co.uk/shop.php.