Stravaig - Call for Submissions

Calling all intellectual nomads! Stravaig is seeking submissions of essays, poems and images for Issue 4 on the theme of 'Intellectual Nomads'. Contributions are invited by Monday 12 January to the editors Nancy Campbell at nancy@nancycampbell.co.uk and Norman Bissell at normanbissell@btinternet.com.

Stravaig is the Journal of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics. Issue 3 (edited by Elizabeth Rimmer and Norman Bissell) can be read online here.

Poems for summer

Here’s some summer poetry reading recommendations (with a narcissistic twist).

Two poems from my Greenlandic series have been accepted by The Rialto, one of my favourite magazines – notable for its glorious artwork (the exuberant cover to this issue is by Angie Lewin). You can buy The Rialto in all good bookshops, and here. From Norfolk to Melbourne, where How To Say ‘I Love You’ In Greenlandic features in Australian Poetry Journal 3.2 – this is a special full-colour edition of the journal devoted to Concrete poetry. I discovered several exciting new writers and artists in its pages. Another arctic poem ‘Fragment’ will appear in Magma 59, on the theme of breakages. Finally, an extract from my long poem The Course of Empire, set in Massachusetts, appears in Stravaig, the journal of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, edited by Elizabeth Rimmer. It is available online to all for free here.

Stravaig

The new issue of Stravaig, the Journal of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics is out now, and available for download here. The issue, with the theme of Coast to Coast, includes some works written during my residency in Siglufjörður, Iceland.  There's also a riddle, which came about while I was translating another riddle from the Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book for an anthology of poems on the theme of water, The Third Thing, which is forthcoming from the Old Stile Press.

The image above, by Anthony Ratcliffe, accompanies a review of his exhibition Shoreline and Watershed by Roger Bygott.