Magazine Review – Liminality: A Magazine of Speculative Poetry
A review of a brand new online speculative fiction poetry magazine.
Poetry – Elgin Award Nominee Showcase
Today, something different. Spending a bit of time with the Elgin Award nominees.
Poetry – Embrace the Hideous Immaculate, C. Hensley
“Horror is a church. Its blood-stained glass both colors and reflects its readers’ worldview. It sacrifices many readers on the altar of repugnance.”
Poetry Review: Scenes Along the Zombie Highway, Clark
Clark’s poems are first and foremost informative, then creepy, grisly and even a little bit tongue-in-cheek funny.
Poetry Review: Blue Sunset by Mary Jo Rabe
A review of the latest poetry collection – Blue Sunset – from Mary Jo Rabe.
Poetry Reviews: An Antho & chapbook by R. Jones
Diva Diane goes one better! Reviews of When Rockets Burn Through and Space Of Their Own. More poetry audio today than you can shake a stick at – so save your energy and listen instead.
Poetry Reviews: Cleveland Poets Stanley & Smith
Today’s post brings you two poetry reviews of chapbooks by Cleveland poets, one each by J. E. Stanley and dan smith. The Greater Cleveland area is a little hotbed of genre poetry! It is lucky […]
Anime roundup 12/19/2013: It’s the End of the Plot As We Know It
In this week’s viewing: Kyousougiga and Galilei Donna hurtle toward seemingly inevitable conclusions, and more!
Poetry Review – Offspring of the Moon, by John W. Sexton
Offspring of the Moon is a beautiful little volume of 57 Moon Wind mostly short length poems. The cover art by Ludmila Korol, called “Moon Wind” is stunningly perfect and beautiful on the paperback cover. I was drawn in by the vividness of the imagery and found a kinship with the weird.
Updates and Announcments
Changes, additions and up-coming developments from the Experimenter Publishing Company
Supernatural Horror In Literature
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from every-day life. Relatively few are free enough from the […]
Why Science Fiction Poetry is Embarrassingly Bad
I have been bothered for a long time by what passes for science fiction poetry, at least the kinds of “verse” (I use the term hesitantly) that currently appears in the three main short fiction […]
Science Fiction Poetry
Unlike most of the other bloggers here at Amazing Stories, I’m just a fan-girl. Not a writer. And I don’t claim to be a particular expert on anything (except maybe Hildegard von Bingen and Baroque vocal music […]
Science Fiction Poetry
Unlike most of the other bloggers here at Amazing Stories, I’m just a fan-girl. Not a writer. And I don’t claim to be a particular expert on anything (except maybe Hildegard von Bingen and Baroque […]
TIME MACHINE: Popular Posts
Our most popular posts from the past week. You all must really like puppies!
TIME MACHINE: Past Popular Posts
Our most popular (and more so now) posts from the past week
CLUBHOUSE: Review: Tales For Late Night Bonfires by G.A. Grisenthwaite
OBIR: Occasional Biased and Ignorant Reviews reflecting this reader’s opinion. TALES FOR LATE NIGHT BONFIRES – by G.A. Grisenthwaite Publisher: Freehand Books, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2023. Editor: Jamie Tennant Book design: Natalie Olsen Note: All […]
CLUBHOUSE: Review: On Spec Magazine #127
OBIR: Occasional Biased and Ignorant Reviews reflecting this reader’s opinion. ON SPEC MAGAZINE issue #127, Vol. 34 No. 1. Publisher: The Copper Pig Writer’s Society. Managing Editor and Art Director: Diane L. Walton. Issue Designer: […]
CLUBHOUSE: Review: Fusion Fragment Magazine #20
OBIR: Occasional Biased and Ignorant Reviews reflecting this reader’s opinion. FUSION FRAGMENT MAGAZINE #20 – February 2024. Publisher: Fusion Fragment, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Editor: Cavan Terrill Cover Art: by Abi Stevens What the Sky Recalls […]
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