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30 Sep 2024
I'm really excited to announce that my 2nd collection is officially published, you can pick up a copy here:
wipfandstock.com/97983852043…
Thanks to Silje for the beautiful cover, to @whitlynnrioross, @pauljpastor, @malcolmguite @gwpm and Landon loftin for endorsing the book.
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Delighted to have my poem 'Index' published by @InkSweatTears (a dream come true)
My son's little scar on his index finger from a suction he gave himself by sucking his own finger in the womb is what inspired the poem. I hope you enjoy it.
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..."And you still have the scar on your finger
from the suction blister
you gave yourself in the womb —
it has grown with your digits, that pushed through
mittens..."
From "Index" published my @InkSweatTears
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Peter Lilly Poetry retweeted
Exploring the #ManyWorlds of #Families are the poets Cheryl Snell, Alice Gregorio & @PeterLillyPoems. The poems express vastly different perspectives and experiences yet also speak to each other when read in sequence.
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ALT Solar system background. Family silhouette holding hands. Heading: 'Many Worlds: Families'. Titles and poets: 'Mother Leaves Post-it Notes on my Pillow and Signs with a Smiley' by Cheryl Snell, 'Love Began as Hunger' by Alice Gregorio, 'INDEX' by Peter Lilly.
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Thrilled to share that a poem of mine was accepted by @WindhoverMag—a magazine I love, which has published writers I deeply admire. After 25 rejections, it finally found its home. Out FEB next year!
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Image. A poem of circular liturgy, originally published in @PaddlerPress
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In March, I was delighted to have 3 poems in The Candyman's Trumpet, family edition, alongside so many wonderful poets. This parenting poem pushes back against making your children grow up.
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Catching up on the @NewYorker poetry podcast, and the recent episode with @MayaCPopa is fantastic. A wonderful exploration of 2 generous poems: her “The World Was All Before Them” and Brenda Shaughnessy’s “Artless”.
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Peter Lilly Poetry retweeted
I'm now a freelance teacher. If you know anyone who could use English literature or philosophy tutoring, or creative writing coaching, please share 🙂
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Delighted to have 3 poems in The Candyman's Trumpet issue 9... A beautiful issue on the theme of family. Thanks to Jack Caradoc!
This is the first of the three:
Rhyming
my son is rhyming in a language I cannot speak
and I, lost to the rhymes, am found
in his glittering eyes.
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Peter Lilly Poetry retweeted
Mar 1
The Candyman's Trumpet has just dropped issue 9. It is a Family Special. It carries four poems by me. I am posting one of them—my thanks to Jack Caradoc.
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I'll have some family themed poems out later today... So I'm revisiting "TO MY SON AT THREE DAYS", originally published by @a_journal
"...You are enormous.
An entire universe
laying between my chin
and my navel."
Read the whole poem here:
archetypemag.com/two-poems-b…
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Feb 13
Hellebore, the “Lenten Rose.”
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“Night to day pours forth speech in silent sweet’
In muted awe we make the choir complete”
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This is one of the reasons why I used specifically the sonnet for my 2nd collection “A Handful of Prayers: Poems and Sonnets for the End of Modernity”
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17 Sep 2024
Here I have a deeper reason yet for employing the sonnet form. For me it is an act of countercultural resistance. plough.com/en/topics/culture…
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BREAK YOUR IDOLS
An acrostic sonnet from my 2nd collection A Handful of Prayers, (@wipfandstock) that is a call to humanity in the face of The Machine. wipfandstock.com/97983852043…
Paul Kingsnorth's new book AGAINST THE MACHINE gives such wonderful language to many of these concerns.
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New post on my blog: Escalation, A Poem for Minneapolis, Observing with Sadness from Afar
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"... ice will meet the people’s fire,
having doused the streets
with the accelerant of death."
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Woke up early this morning to the evil of Trump’s ICE Proud Boys - this text came in overnight from a friend in USA who’s now spending his retirement supporting persecuted immigrant families. His protection is he’s white and middle class. But this is what’s happening to the poor.
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