Miserable weather today, but I finally got my hands on the latest copy of On Spec, featuring a poem from me about cross-cultural exchange in Fairyland. Surprise! it came to me in the bath.
Category: poetry
Fantasy Magazine Poem Free to Read
It’s out! You can read it here! It speaks to the great passion of my life! (Lavender.)
So many of my neighbours grow lavender that I know I’m in the right place. (And head on over to Instagram for my full bee collection.)
Poem in Fantasy
A tiny new departure for me. I have written three poems since I was eighteen; the third of them is in this month’s issue of Fantasy Magazine, available to subscribers here. It will go online later this month, but of course you should subscribe and get the whole fantastic issue right now.
My piece is called The End of Little Dreams and it is a poem for anyone getting through the day by thinking very, very hard about the place they are definitely going to have sometime:
It’s 6.18am and you are looking at / reproduction William de Morgan tiles / and Morris & Co fabrics on John Lewis…
JULIA AUGUST 