poetry: Goblin Fruit & Rhysling Award sea-themed & mermaid poems
Some bits of mermaid- and sea-related flotsam from the world of speculative and fantasy poetry:
The 2011 Rhysling Award winners have been announced. csecooney's excellent poem The Sea King's Second Bride won first place in the long poem category. It's a marvelous romp of a poem-tale about the woman the Sea King married after his first wife returned to land, an undersea stepmother who's far from wicked but no one's fool. You can read Ms. Cooney's poem in the Goblin Fruit archive here.
If you're interested in speculative or fantasy poetry, the 2011 Rhysling Anthology, containing all this year's Rhysling-nominated poems, features plenty of stuff well-suited to sea-lovers, including B.J. Lee's The Legend of the Flying Dutchman, Sonya Taafe's In the Earth in Those Days, Amal el-Mohtar (tithenai) and Jessica P. Wick (mer-moon)'s co-written Courting Song for Selkies and Robert Frazier's Wreck-Diving the Starship, the third-place long-form finalist.
Speaking of goblinfruit and mermaid poetry, my poem The Sea Witch Talks Show Business is available in the Summer 2011 issue. The titular Sea Witch is the familiar figure from the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, rendered somewhat less familiar. In addition to the text of the poem, the fantastic s00j recorded the spoken word audio also available at the link, rendering it delightfully creepy. (Among her many other accomplishments, s00j has many sea-songs, notably Shipful of Monsters, The Wendy Trilogy (a retelling of Peter Pan in which Wendy takes Hook up on his offered chance to become a pirate, which then spawned the Lost Girls Pirate Academy), and most recently Neptune, off her most recent album Mischief.)
Enjoy the sea-themed poetry and musical delights! Fair wind and fair weather to you.
The 2011 Rhysling Award winners have been announced. csecooney's excellent poem The Sea King's Second Bride won first place in the long poem category. It's a marvelous romp of a poem-tale about the woman the Sea King married after his first wife returned to land, an undersea stepmother who's far from wicked but no one's fool. You can read Ms. Cooney's poem in the Goblin Fruit archive here.
If you're interested in speculative or fantasy poetry, the 2011 Rhysling Anthology, containing all this year's Rhysling-nominated poems, features plenty of stuff well-suited to sea-lovers, including B.J. Lee's The Legend of the Flying Dutchman, Sonya Taafe's In the Earth in Those Days, Amal el-Mohtar (tithenai) and Jessica P. Wick (mer-moon)'s co-written Courting Song for Selkies and Robert Frazier's Wreck-Diving the Starship, the third-place long-form finalist.
Speaking of goblinfruit and mermaid poetry, my poem The Sea Witch Talks Show Business is available in the Summer 2011 issue. The titular Sea Witch is the familiar figure from the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, rendered somewhat less familiar. In addition to the text of the poem, the fantastic s00j recorded the spoken word audio also available at the link, rendering it delightfully creepy. (Among her many other accomplishments, s00j has many sea-songs, notably Shipful of Monsters, The Wendy Trilogy (a retelling of Peter Pan in which Wendy takes Hook up on his offered chance to become a pirate, which then spawned the Lost Girls Pirate Academy), and most recently Neptune, off her most recent album Mischief.)
Enjoy the sea-themed poetry and musical delights! Fair wind and fair weather to you.