They also say that I bring back the past

[sovay]

My poems "Settling Accounts" and "Trying for It," otherwise known as the poem I wrote for asakiyume on the spring full moon of Nisan and the poem I wrote for Thomas Andrews on the centenary of the Titanic, have been accepted by The Revelator, where my Lovecraft poem "Being Providence" has already found a home. I hadn't intended for them to be published as a sort of gerund triptych, but I'm really not going to complain now that it's happening. The editors suggest a new poetic form: the tri-Taaffe. I should let them collage all my work.

Discovered last night: John Coulthart's "S. Latitude 47° 9', W. Longitude 126° 43'." I really want a print. I wonder if I can get it without buying the calendar. Apparently I should read more William Hope Hodgson.

Comments

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I'd recommend Boats of the Glen Carrig to you, especially given your love of the sea.

I'm very mixed about The Night Land. On the one hand it's badly written dreck, but the premise is pretty damn awe-inspiring. Hodgson was pen-friends with Wells and I can't help wondering if the dying Earth scenes in Time Machine influenced W. H.

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I'd recommend Boats of the Glen Carrig to you, especially given your love of the sea.

It does look like it has tentacles.

I'm very mixed about The Night Land. On the one hand it's badly written dreck, but the premise is pretty damn awe-inspiring.

It's such a weird book. Far-future alien is an almost impossible genre to do well: even Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun is a lot less strange conceptually than in its language. I haven't read The Night Land since college, but I remember it being full of really impressive WTF. And, yes. It's writing on geologic time.

Hodgson was pen-friends with Wells and I can't help wondering if the dying Earth scenes in Time Machine influenced W. H.

If so, major points for outweirding his influences.