I've got a poem in the qarrtsiluni Journaling the Apocalypse series:

Front page here:
http://qarrtsiluni.com/

Mine here:
http://qarrtsiluni.com/2008/11/25/england/

qarrtsiluni is a really interesting concept, with its various contributions published serially day by day.

Carolyn Zukowski of The Literary Bohemian tells me that I'm having two pieces in the imminent December issue. She is a really great editor to deal with; when I had to withdraw some poems from my submission that were accepted elsewhere, she couldn't have been nicer.
http://www.literarybohemian.com/

Congratulations, Paul. I am glad that providing opportunity for others hasn't stopped you from finding time for your own writing.

qarrtsiluni is new for me, so thanks for spreading the news.

Second the notion that Carolyn Z.and her fellow editor Colin Lewis are real nice folks. Can hardly wait for the next issue.

Paul,

That is one of the most thought-provoking pieces of yours I've read. It captures the complexity of the world's enigma from many angles.

I also agree with you about Carolyn and the Literary Bohemian as I recently had a pleasant om-line dealing with her.

Anne

Editing in to say, I meant on-line -- but it did have an OM... feeling about it :)

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Thanks Janice and Anne. Janice, I've been really pushed for time lately but have found time to write. Apart from the editing and general plotting, interviewing Stephen Edgar (who has some very interesting things to say about poetic craft), I've been full-on teaching up to the recent HSC, being a new granddad (Aurora Neill-Stevens, born November 4th, photo here with my wife Susan: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3294/...5c0f23bf_o.jpg ), house renovations and I've just written my 50th poem in the last two and a half months, most of it (I think) the best work I've done.

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The sight of that beautiful baby has made it impossible for me to work any more tonight. I think we are programmed to go limp and gaa-gaa when we see a nearly-newborn, I am anyway.

So more congrats in order. First for the wonderful addition to the family, and for the poems, and as for the rest, please tell me: Where did you go to get cloned? And did it hurt?

Amen...I wonder, too, Janice...but it probably didn't hurt any more than his tatoos, heart surgeries, etc. : ) For those who know and love you, Paul, it is great fun to hear you read, listen to that great accent, learn of all these new poems and pubs. Not to mention those of us who know all you do behind the scenes. Good on you, Mate.

Pat



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Paul,
Frightening poem. You've caught some of that submerged ominous feeling that goes with living in England. I remember the jets so high you could hardly see them but you knew what they were carrying. (That was THEN of course.)

Congratulations on the new family member and on all you have done despite the odds or perhaps because of them.
Janet

"Not to mention those of us who know all you do behind the scenes." -- Heheheh Pat you don't know everything I do behind the scenes thank goodness http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/ubbhtml/wink.gif But I reckon you're an honorary Aussie if ever there was one. Janet, I found England very locked down -- felt great relief when we crossed the Severn into South Wales which DID remind me quite a bit of New South Wales and felt much less man-made, more natural and open. Though we did have jets serially cracking the sound barrier over Tintern Abbey; very poetic. I was shuffled a bit back and forth between England and Oz as a child, and while I felt at home in England I always hankered after Australia's wide-openness and sheer sparsity of population. Even back then England seemed so urban, over-populated and sort of edgy. Because of the odds -- yes indeed. The odds do concentrate one's mind.

G'day there, Paul. I like your "England" very much indeedy. Congrats on that and on your new adorable grandbaby.

Thanks Mizzy Mezzy! She's a stunner! There's more of her on the FaceBook. And more celebrations: two in Mannequin Envy alongside some fine work by Janice; Susan Slaviero's there too, whose work I greatly admire: http://mannequinenvy.com/