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

[sovay]

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)

Comments

[gwynnega]

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

Congratulations!

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. Sadly I don't write poems but that looks like a cool issue.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

You know, clearly I ought to have read the entire canon. *headshakes*

If I can get the piece with the thing with the thing finished, d'you mind if I send it over for a tandem consideration... thing?

Oh God I need to shut up.

[weirdquark]

Oh, huh. My queer Tam Lin is not a poem, and my Tam Lin poem is not queer.

I don't think I can do anything about that; I don't really do poetry, so I don't know that I could make the queer Tam Lin work as a poem without the context of all of the stuff that was the reason I wanted to write it as a novel, but it's an interesting thought. (I'd rather try to make it work as a novel, I think.)

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

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

Excellent! I'm very fond of that one.

Nine

[selidor]

The Turing mugs are joyful things; one lives in our household. Turing was truly one of the World's Awesome People - the SO is fond of describing him as the only person who could have solved the problem of artificial intelligence for us, and now we never will. I look forward to seeing the poem.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! That's a lovely poem, and it deserves such a fine setting.

I wish I could think of anything to write for them that would suit, but I can't. I hope they can get more submissions soon, and that they'll be worthy of sharing a TOC with "The Clock House".

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

(He did get a stamp.)


you just didnt see how that gave me the worst giggles ever... do you have to lick it or is it self sticking? (snort snort.. groan)

Its bad that they didnt pardon him, he was such a brilliant man, if they had left him alone, he would have done even more.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Two pieces of good news - because I hadn't heard about the 'Britons of Distinction' stamps, and I'm almost out of Dave McKean dragons! (I hope you don't have to buy the whole set - the May Morris is very pretty, but I've lived in one of Basil Spence's buildings, and don't really want to entrust my correspondence to him...)

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Well done on "The Clock House"; I'm sending "Under Bacchus" in tonight. I will be very, very happy if we end up sharing a TOC.

I feel I should send them something else, so I'll see what the afternoon brings.