April 22, 2015

Joseph Robert longlisted for the Melita Hume poetry prize 2015

[Updated 15 August 2018: At the time this post was written in 2015, the Melita Hume Prize was free to enter. In 2018 there is now a submission charge. Please note that at the time Leilanie Stewart was longlisted for the Melita Hume Prize in 2014, and Joseph Robert longlisted for the Melita Hume Prize in 2015, there were no submission fees to enter.]

This week my poet and writer hubby, Joseph Robert, received word that his poetry collection has been longlisted for the Melita Hume poetry prize 2015. It’s obvious that as one half of a writing couple I’m super proud of him, but the news deserves a space here too!

For those who don’t know about it, the Melita Hume prize is a poetry competition run by Eyewear Publishing for poets under 35 years old who have compiled a book-length poetry collection. This year the first place winner will get £1500 and will find out by June 2015.

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April 13, 2015

Poetry video – Weyfarers Magazine

Yesteryear, dinosaurs and poetry…another strange video which I actually recorded in June last year and only just dug out of the archive. Soon to be republished as a bonus poem in A Model Archaeologist (Eyewear Publishing 2015) and first published in Weyfarers Issue 110 (Guildford Poets Press 2011).

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April 3, 2015

Poison’s Embracing Grey

This month my hubby poet, Joseph Robert’s poem – Morning Song – appears in Walking Is Still Honest magazine (WISH). What a great way to kick off the long bank holiday weekend…another publication for us to celebrate!

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March 31, 2015

The Proletarian Poet part 2

Here is my latest comic strip chapter in the saga of a starving artist. What will the world heap upon the weary poet’s shoulders this time?

Proletarian Poet part 2 by Leilanie Stewart.jpeg

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March 23, 2015

Final draft of second novel finished

Novel research

Novel research

This month, I’m very excited to have finished the final draft of my second novel. It’s a fantasy novel this time, the idea for which I got in the summer of 2013. After a week of research, I wrote the first draft in a month during my summer holiday break from the secondary school where I worked. In total I wrote 3 drafts as follows:

Draft 1: getting the basic plot & characterisation in a comprehensible story

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March 16, 2015

My review of Ken W Simpson’s book in Ashvamegh

Last month I reviewed Ken W Simpson’s poetry collection, Patterns of Perception on my blog. This month my review has been published in the March issue of Ashvamegh magazine. Ken has had much success with his new collection and I hope his promotion work continues to bring his poetry to a wider audience all over the world.

Zen Dog - copyright Edward Monkton

Zen Dog – copyright Edward Monkton

During the past month I have contributed to editing and selecting poems for publication in Ashvamegh. Although I have previously edited anthologies of poetry by young people for publication, joining the editorial board of Ashvamegh has been a new experience in terms of reading and editing work by adults.

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March 9, 2015

Puerto De La Cruz at 50 by Simon Robson

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Simon Robson’s latest pamphlet, Puerto De La Cruz at 50, offers a variation on his last holiday-themed pamphlet, Marakech A-ha, which I reviewed last year. The travel observations of people, place and culture are present, as before, though the tone of the pamphlet is different. Here, Robson not only explores a journey abroad, but a journey through middle-age. The traveller seeks a quiet atmosphere; a sleepy town and a hotel tucked away up a mountainside where even the volcanoes sleep. Noisy young couples bring unwelcome distraction forcing the poet to reflect wistfully on his holiday alone:

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Posted by on March 9, 2015 in Books, Chapbooks/pamphlets, Poetry and tagged , , .

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March 4, 2015

Joseph Robert’s poems in The Mind[less] Muse

Here are another couple of poems from my lovely poet hubby, Joseph Robert, published in The Mind[less] Muse. Since January both of us have had poetry published rather than fiction, but not to fear – more fiction is in the pipeline for this year.

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After all, a writing couple need to share the love.

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February 25, 2015

The Proletarian Poet part 1

Poetry, writing, art. Is one any better than the other at expressing a concept? Some things might make a great visual impression, but would seem mundane or even boring if described. The trivial details of the daily grind, for example, that aren’t worth working into a poem might be great fodder for a sketch. With that in mind, here is a tongue-in-cheek vignette that I chose to show, rather than tell:

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February 18, 2015

Macrofossil & other poems

Five of my poems are published in The Open End Magazine this month – a batch inspired by archaeology, genetics with a few rogue wolves thrown in there for good measure. Since nearly all of my recent magazine publications have been based on archaeology themes (such as in Morphrog and Jellyfish Whispers) this brings me to the question…why am I not still working in my former career as a Field Archaeologist?

Digging deep

Digging deep

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Posted by on February 18, 2015 in Biography, Chapbooks/pamphlets, Eyewear Publishing, Poetry and tagged , , , .

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