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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2012-02-08 06:14 pm

Tea leaves, bicycle chains and dream of Christopher, Christopher and the machine

I am drinking goat's milk hot chocolate from my Alan Turing mug. (It's from the ACM.)

My poem "The Clock House" has been accepted by Stone Telling.

It's a piece I wanted to write since the fall of 2008; it took me a year once I got started. It is for Christopher Morcom. It is also for Alan Turing.

It is Turing's centenary year. The call to grant him a posthumous pardon for his conviction for gross indecency was just rejected. (He did get a stamp.) I submitted the poem specifically for Stone Telling's queer issue.

They need more submissions. Send them some.

I did believe it possible for a spirit at death to go to a universe entirely separate from our own, but I now consider that matter and spirit are so connected that this would be a contradiction in terms. It is possible however but unlikely that such universes may exist.
—Alan Turing, "The Nature of Spirit" (1932)
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[personal profile] weirdquark 2012-02-10 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
(Have you sent your non-queer Tam Lin poem anywhere?)

I have not -- I wrote a draft about a year ago but never managed to edit it into something I thought was any good, but see above, re me not really doing poetry. I could take another look and post it under friends-lock if you're interested.

I don't have anything Tempest related, but I suppose if I managed it, the most likely option would be novel backstory about a queer, cross-cultural relationship, so it would be relevant to Stone Telling even if it's not particularly relevant to the novel. I'll think on it.