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Second Light News:

FIFTY-FIFTEEN FESTIVAL, 19-21 NOVEMBER 2009

Celebrating 50 years of the rise and rise of women in poetry and 15 years of Second Light Network. Second Light was lucky enough to secure an Arts Council England grant, which included funding towards the festival and some small bursaries to assist those of limited means to attend. Heading the bill, the very distinguished poet, Anne Stevenson, whose poetic development has spanned over fifty years. Other poets involved: Alison Brackenbury, Mimi Khalvati, Pascale Petit, Caroline Price, Myra Schneider, Lynne Wycherley and more…

   Also high on the bill, a celebration of the work and influence of U A Fanthorpe in a special event presented by Ruth O’Callaghan, with guest poet, R V Bailey on Thu 19th.

SECOND LIGHT POETRY COMPETITION, 2009

The Judge, Pauline Stainer, has made her selection. Thank you to all who entered the competition and congratulations to all who were placed, particularly the main prize-winners: 1st – Lynne Wycherley
with The Lightning-Horse; 2nd – Margaret Wilmot with Hermetic; and 3rd – Kay Syrad with Registering their flora, /their fauna. Full results are now on the website – www.secondlightlive.co.uk.
The winning and commended poems will be published in ARTEMISpoetry Issue 4.

MARY MacRAE

For your diary: there will be a celebration of Mary MacRae and her poetry on 11 December 2009 in the Gradidge Room at the Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London, WC1, 6 to 9pm.

HOLLAND HOUSE, 23-26 March 2010

A 3 day residential workshop with Myra Schneider and Penelope Shuttle. Holland House is near Evesham, Worcestershire. The cost is £265 for a single room and £220 sharing. See Booking Form on
the SecondLightLive website: www.secondlightlive.co.uk for more details. Email Administrator, [email protected], to check availability of places.

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. 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, 2010 deadlines are 28 February, 30 April, 30 June, 31 August and 31 October. For ARTEMISpoetry Issue 4 (May 2010) the deadline for Members’ News is 30 March 10. Submit online at www.secondlightlive.co.uk/resources/submitnews.shtml or, for those without internet access, by post to Administrator, Second Light Network, 20 Clovelly Way, Orpington, Kent, BR6 0WD.

SecondLightLive

The online Poem of the Month competition continues. Lotte Kramer’s poem Bilingual was the overall winner of round 1 and Jennie Osborne’s poem There’s Something About a Woman Swallowing Flames was the overall winner of round 2. You can hear Lotte & Jennie read their poems by going to the website www.secondlightlive.co.uk and clicking in the link in the right side menu.

ARTEMISpoetry – Issue 4, May 2010

U A Fanthorpe’s partner, Dr R V Bailey, has very kindly agreed to write a memoir of this much admired poet for ARTEMISpoetry, Issue 4, May 2010, an issue which we intend will devote
significant space to comments on UAF. Submission of short pieces (60 to 100 words) are invited.

Readers’ Letters – we invite readers’ letters, comments on ARTEMISpoetry, on women’s writing, and on the articles and reviews which have appeared in the journal. Please send your letters to Dilys Wood (see Poetry Submissions for address) with “Reader’s Letter” on the envelope.

   We invite a new poetry editor for each issue, so each time your poems are judged by a new eye. We also ensure that selected poems are submitted for the Forward Prize. ARTEMISpoetry is already becoming a sought-after publication credit – when thinking of where to place your work, ARTEMISpoetry is a real contender – an ideal opportunity to show just how good a poet you are!

ARTEMISpoetry – submissions for Issue 4, May 2010

Poetry Submissions Deadline: 28 February 2010. Women poets only, of any age. 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). Two copies, A4 paper copy only, typed or neatly handwritten. Each numbered sheet to bear the poet’s contact details (name, address, telephone, email). Send to Dilys Wood, 9, Green Dale Close, London, SE22 8TG. Please write “ARTEMISpoetry 4” on your envelope.

Poets whose work is selected will be contacted by 30th April 2010.

Our poetry editor for Issue 4 is Alison Brackenbury. She has had several poetry collections published by Carcanet, the latest, Singing in the Dark (2008) – “A quiet lyricism and delight” (The Guardian). Her work was recently included in Radio 3’s ‘Poems for Today’, as part of the BBC’s poetry season. She won the Eric Gregory award in 1982 and a Cholmondley award in 1997. She is a reviewer and a tutor for the Poetry School, and a frequent adjudicator of poetry competitions. She was on the judging panel for The National Poetry Competition in 2005. New poems can be read on Alison’s website:
www.alisonbrackenbury.co.uk.

Artwork Submissions Deadline: 30 March 2010. Black/white photographs or line-art, maximum of 4 pieces. We leave it to readers’ imagination what artwork items are particularly suitable for
ARTEMISpoetry but we would like to widen the range of art genres published in the journal. Paper copy to Dilys Wood (see Poetry)

Cover art: colour submissions for cover art are invited. Paper copy to Dilys Wood (see Poetry).

Members’ News: to arrive by 30 March 2010 (see Second Light News/Spreading the News).

Apologies to those whose news was omitted from ARTEMISpoetry, Issue 2. The missing items are included below.

Comps & Calls:

Merryn Williams is looking for "excellent work from new and established writers" for The Interpreter’s House journal of poems and short stories. “Your name doesn’t matter – the quality of your poetry does.” All submissions will be dealt with swiftly. Subscriptions £12pa, three issues; single copies £3.50 plus 76p. Submissions to: 19 The Paddox, Oxford OX2 7PN. Business correspondence to Matt Bright, 105 Gypsy Lane, Headington, Oxford OX3 7PU. www.interpretershouse.org.uk.

Events, Courses & Workshops:

Kay Cotton at Le Moulin is offering low cost writers’ retreats in Normandie. Groups can be selfcatering or catered for; individuals welcomed. Transport can be arranged from local airport and ferry terminals. Attention to detail, good food and a creative ambiance. tel: 0033 233 592181 & we will call you back. See www.lemoulin50410.eu for comfortable gite accommodation. email; [email protected] ... or write to us at 50410 Villebaudon France.

... do not miss Katherine Gallagher at Le Moulin, Mon 28 June - Fri 2 July 2010. Course restricted to 7 places: ‘The crossing points of our lives’. Strong emphasis on improving skills. Feedback to
organisers enables future planning. £350 all in. Contact details as above.

June English: Poetry workshops: Monthly 4th Thursday at WATERSTONE’S , Rose Lane, Canterbury 6.45pm – 9pm £5.00/£3.00. Focus on the importance of opposition and tension; sound, voice, imagery, form in poetry. Writing exercises and constructive feedback. June English has published three poetry collections – with poems in the Independent on Sunday, Morning Star and the Daily Mirror. Info: 01304 380866 [email protected].

Kate Foley and Joy Howard (with Cherry Potts) will be reading poetry and short stories at Gays the Word Bookshop, 66 Marchmont St. WC1 1AB, from 8pm on Wed 18 Nov. – a women only event.

Creative Writing Retreat with Thelma Laycock. Words for a Winter Landscape, February 12 to 14, 2010. Quaker Retreat Centre, Grasmere, Cumbria. Contact The Warden, tel: 01539 435389.

Northern Italy’s Lake District. Ruth O’Callaghan, Hawthornden Fellow, competition adjudicator, interviewer, reviewer and editor, will tutor intensive weekly poetry courses overlooking lovely Lake
Monate, close to Lake Maggiore. Participation limited to five participants thus ensuring close individual attention. Accommodation: large self-contained flat whose substantial terrace commands
Lake and mountain views. March 20th to October 2010. Contact Ruth: [email protected] or Tel 0044(0)208 392 1171.

Sibyl Ruth is to be featured in a Radio 4 poetry documentary about her German-Jewish great aunt Rose Scooler, who wrote poems about life in Theresienstadt – and Sibyl’s experience of translating
these poems into English. The documentary will be broadcast on Wed 27 Jan, Holocaust Memorial Day 2010.

2010: Myra Schneider and John Killick, launch of key resource book, Writing Your Self – important focus on poetry. Wed Jan 20th, 7.30pm, The Irish Centre, Camden Town, free entry. Sat 6Mar, workshop: An Aspect of personal writing, Linda Chase’s Tai Chi Village Hall, Manchester, + evening reading, poets in Writing Your Self. Full details and booking from January – [email protected].

Hylda Sims: Hearing Eye have republished her collection, Reaching Peckham, and there is a launch reading from 5pm on Sunday 29th November upstairs at the Freemasons Arms, 81-82 Long Acre,
Covent Garden, London WC2. All welcome.

Anne Stewart is reading at a charity fundraiser on 28th November, for a myhealthnet community health project: “Sexual and Reproductive Health Services … ‘Educate for Life Programme’ ”. They need advertisers, sponsors, attendees and donations: anything from cars & paintings to gadgets & signed books, or good old cash. Can you help? More info from Anne [email protected] Tel 01689 811394.

WINCHMORE HILL WRITERS: a small, supportive yet challenging group of writers (including poets) that meet on occasional Saturdays at Friends Meeting House, London N21.There is also a reading group that meets Tuesdays 1-3pm (term-time only) which has an in-depth focus helpful to writers. For more details, contact Christine Vial 0790 5209 459 or [email protected].

Merry Williams will be ‘in conversation’ with Dannie Abse when he is presented the Wilfred Owen Association award for his sixty-year long body of work. Sat 21 Nov 09, 3pm (following the AGM 2 to 3pm). Neals Yard Meeting Rooms, 14 Neals Yard, Covent Garden. Non-members welcome for the presentation. £6/£5(members). Contact the secretary, Vanessa Davis [email protected] or 29 Arthur Road, London SW19 7DN.


Publications:

Alice Beer has a new poetry pamphlet out: Window on the Square, from [email protected], £3.50 . Alice’s flat overlooks De Montfort Square in Leicester, and all the poems relate in some way to the Square. Introduction by Michael Laskey, profits from sales donated to Hamlin Fistula UK, a charity supporting women’s treatment at the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia.

Caroline Carver’s third collection, THREE HARES, was published by Oversteps Books in September 2009. The launch was at the Poetry on the Lake festival in Orta, Northern Italy, and Caroline will be giving a number of readings around the UK in 2010.

Wendy French’s new collection, surely you know this, was published in October by tall-lighthouse; Daphne Gloag had a new poetry collection, A Compression of Distances, published in October by Cinnamon Press at £7.99. ISBN: 978-1-9056147-9-0. Wendy and Daphne, along with other Second Light members, will give short readings in the early reading slot at the Second Light Festival in November.

Joy Howard has a new collection out, Exit Moonshine, launched earlier in the year in Bradford. Copies available from the Grey Hen Press website: http://greyhenpress.com.

Maria Jastrzebska’s new collection, Everyday Angels, published by Waterloo Press, was launched at Hove Library on October 15th.

Claudia Jessop’s debut collection, This is the Woman Who, was published by Cinnamon Press on 1st October 2009. Details at www.cinnamonpress.com.

Philippa Lawrence has a new 48pp pamphlet collection out, all about clothes, called From Memory’s Wardrobe and published under the Buff Press imprint. “Beneath the liveliness there is an undertow of deep and sometimes painful feelings, which give an edge to the humour and wit of her work.” (Myra Schneider). Details from Philippa: [email protected].

Linda Rose Parkes has collaborated with her daughter Esther Rose Parkes on the forthcoming album, Slaking The Dust. More at: www.myspace.com/estherparkes.

Myra Schneider and John Killick have completed the Writing Your Self resource book of personal writing and literature which examines, with firsthand accounts, ways in which writers have tackled writing about different areas of personal experience. Part 2 offers techniques to try and ideas for developing work. Over 20 Second Light members have contributed.

Ed – The following women poets have written key contributions: Linda Chase, June English, Vicki Feaver, Kate Foley, Katherine Gallagher, Hilary Llewellyn-Williams, Mary MacRae, Pascale Petit, Maggie Sawkins, Clare Shaw, Penelope Shuttle, Dilys Wood.

The book also includes work by: Anna Adams, Anna Avebury, Rosie Bailey, Yvonne Baker, Frances Bellerby, Denise Bennett, Maggie Bevan, Elizabeth Bishop, Jacqueline Brown, Caroline Carver, Sheena Clover, Anne Cluysenaar, Julia Darling, Elke-Hannah Dutton, Barbara Feldt, Vivienne Fogel, Mo Gallaccio, Daphne Gloag, Susan Jordan, Mimi Khalvati, Rosemary McLeish, Sibyl Ruth, Gill McEvoy, Barbara Noel Scott, Geraldine Paine, Helen Pizzey, Caroline Price, Anne Stevenson, Anne Stewart, Kay Syrad, Vicky Wilson.

Hylda Sims: Hearing Eye have re-published her pamphlet, Reaching Peckham, book and CD. Available from Hylda direct or from Hearing Eye.

Kay Syrad’s first novel, The Milliner and the Phrenologist, was published by Cinnamon Press in November 09. Described by the publisher as ‘A highly original and visual novel, brimming with
delicious wit’. Available direct from www.cinnamonpress.com, and https://www.amazon.co.uk.

Merryn Williams has completed two books in two years: The Georgians, 1901-30 (Shoestring, October 2009) is an anthology of the best work of a group of poets from Charlotte Mew to Edmund
Blunden; Effie: A Victorian Scandal (Book Guild, spring 2010) is the story of Effie Gray, who married John Ruskin, left him and later married the great painter John Everett Millais.

Other News & Successes:

Joanna Boulter spent 4 weeks in Beijing during Jan/Feb 2009 to continue her work with a composer on a symphonic song cycle. There are nine movements in total, three songs each for soprano and tenor, and three duets, with orchestral accompaniment.

Simone Mansell Broome won 3rd prize in the Cannon Poets Silver Jubilee competition, theme “Play” and has a poem in the next Templar anthology and in the Leaf Books 2009 poetry competition
(commended). She was also one of two performance poets representing Wales in the BBC Radio 4 Performance Poetry Slam semi-final.

Elizabeth Burns has won the Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlets for her pamphlet The Shortest Days. This new award is supported by the British Library and the Poetry Book Society.
Elizabeth’s pamphlet, a sequence of elegies, is published by the one-woman Galdragon Press and is available from them or from the Poetry Book Society.

Caroline Carver won the Silver Wyvern, first prize in the Poetry on the Lake poetry competition 2008. The annual poetry competition and festival are run by Gabriel Griffin, at Lake Orta, St Giulio,
Italy.

A C Clarke has received a McLellan Poetry Award for her poem, The Anatomists. She also has a poem included in the next Templar anthology, has a commended poem in the Leaf Books 2009
competition anthology.

Pat Earnshaw was awarded first prize in the Salopian Poetry Competition; and first prize for a pair of poems on the speculative origin of speech/language in the Society of Medical Writers Summer
Competition. She also has a new website up and running: www.pat-earnshaw.net and would love for you to pay it a visit.

Katherine Gallagher was recently interviewed on the A.B.C.’s POETICA Programme, presented on Radio National on 27th Jun and 2nd Jul. It’s available as audio on demand on the Poetica website until 27th Jul. Go to: www.abc.net.au/rn/poetica/

Daphne Gloag won first prize in the 2009 Scintilla short poem competition.

Frances Green has a poem published this month in an Anthology called Up to Our Necks In It – Poems on the Way We Live Now, edited by Monica Jones. It is a collected vision of the contemporary
world with the overwhelming majority of contributors being women poets.

Thelma Laycock’s poem, October, was commended in the Poetry on the Lake competition (Italy).

Gill Learner’s poem Once upon a time was Highly Commended in the Havant Literary Festival competition and she had a poem shortlisted for the Bridport Prize.

Gill McEvoy has a poem featured on the Park and Ride buses in Shrewsbury, as part of the Darwin celebrations.

In July 2009 Denise McSheehy received a £1,500 Authors’ Foundation Grant to develop her second collection.

Ruth O’Callaghan read at the XX1X World Congress of Poets in Budapest September 27th to 4th October. Having worked in Mongolia with women poets and made a C.D (£5) she also recently
returned from Italy where visual works of art were made of her latest collection by European artists.

Jane Routh has won the Cardiff ‘Academi’ Poetry competition [2nd time in a row it’s been won by a Second Light member... ed.]

Anne Ryland won the first prize in the Kent & Sussex Poetry Competition, 2009, judged by Penelope Shuttle.

Daphne Schiller has won 3rd Prize in the McLellan Poetry Award 2009 for her poem Lunch at the Talbot. She was particularly pleased as it was judged by Robert Crawford, a poet whose work she admires.

Anne Stewart has poems accepted for the Flarestack and Templar (shortlisted) competition anthologies and is one of several Second Light members represented in the Genius Floored anthology
arising from Ruth O’Callaghan’s reading events (publisher www.soaringpenguin.co.uk). A sound file of Anne’s poem, Still Water, Orange, Apple, Tea, is now on the Bridport Prize website (linked from her website: www.annestewart.me.uk).

Harriet Torr was commended in the Poetry Society’s 2008 National Poetry Competition (see http://poetrysociety.org.uk) for her poem Tsunami Girl and has recently had a pamphlet published by
Koo Poetry Press (http://www.koopress.co.uk).

Marion Tracy is a runner up in the 2009 Mslexia annual poetry competition, judge Ruth Padel, with a poem called Pictures placed on high shelves in hospitals.

Vivienne Tregenza won first prize in the formal section of Poetry on the Lake’s poetry competition 2008 and reports ‘I was delighted to take part in the Poetry Festival at Lake Orta, Italy’ where she
received her prize. She also won third place in the Renato Giorgi Poetry Prize 2008.

Pam Zinnemann-Hope is a runner up in the Templar Pamphlet & Collection Competition and 2 of her poems will be included in the anthology.


Resources

Kudos: www.kudoswritingcompetitions.com – increase your chances with this comprehensive listing of competitions to enter…

Myra Schneider recommends the Bow-Wow Shop online international poetry forum as by far the best poetry magazine she’s seen on the internet. It publishes extremely good articles, also reviews and poems. The third issue came out recently. One or two Second Light members feature in all three issues. www.bowwowshop.org.uk