2020-05-05

sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
I cannot express my happiness on discovering that a queer classics student reblogged my ghost poem for Lucan on the occasion of the poet's yahrzeit; this is exactly the kind of tradition I want to be part of. Have some links!

1. In which my plan to stress-buy a zillion waistcoats is vindicated by literature: Samuel Rutter, "A Dandy's Guide to Decadent Self-Isolation."

2. Courtesy of [personal profile] handful_ofdust: the value of practical effects in the case of the Cottingley Fairies.

3. Adam Bolivar, whose rhyming marionette theater I had the privilege of enjoying last summer at NecronomiCon 2019, has recorded his Rhysling Award-winning ballad "The Rime of the Eldritch Mariner" as performed by H.P. Lovecraft Theobald Craftwell. I also recommend checking out the self-introduction of dapper, skeletal Solomon Scratch.

4. Frankly, the history of the Pearl of Lao-Tzu makes Steinbeck's The Pearl (1947) look like a tea cozy.

5. The storyboards of The Ballet of the Red Shoes, from Powell and Pressburger's The Red Shoes (1948), are just great.

In case I forgot to mention, my short story "Where the Sky Is Silver and the Earth Is Brass" is reprinted in the latest issue of Uncanny Magazine. It won't be free to read online until June, but you can always buy an e-book.
sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
My poem "Drinking from the Incantation Bowl" has been accepted by Vastarien: A Literary Journal. I love these spiraling traps of words and the demons caught in them, but I still don't know what jolted the writing of the poem last October. I said at the time, "Maybe I just feel the king of the demons would be a better problem to deal with than any human we have in power right now." The market is a new one for me and one whose pages I am delighted to join. I am having a lot of difficulty with the world right now, but art is an important thing.
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