Ancient Echoes, Modern Pages: C.S. Douglas Reinterprets the Rubáiyát

C.S. Douglas releases "Echoes of Existence," a new collection of 200 rubaiyat poems, offering modern takes on life's complexities. Published in 2024.

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C.S. Douglas has released 200 new poems in the rubaiyat style, a form over 1000 years old. This is a new collection after years of writing.

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I was thrilled to get a physical copy of Shine Quarterly Issue 6 yesterday and to see my two poems 'Ajar' and 'A Burning' in print. 📖🧡 They were published online last October, but it's extra special to be in the quarterly. Thanks Samantha! Both Shine Poetry and Samantha Terrell are now only on Bluesky, if you're there you could give them a follow - and me too. 🫶

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These lines are to commemorate my spectacular failure to win the North Street Book Prize with my 2024 collection “After Spruce: Poems in the Manner of Tom Jenks’ ‘Spruce’ During the Time of the Coronavirus Pandemic”.

Originally published: Poetry and Covid December 2020

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These lines are to commemorate my spectacular failure to win the North Street Book Prize with my 2024 collection “After Spruce: Poems in the Manner of Tom Jenks’ ‘Spruce’ During the Time of the Coronavirus Pandemic”.

Originally published Poetry and Covid December 2020

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These lines are to commemorate my spectacular failure to win the North Street Book Prize with my 2024 collection “After Spruce: Poems in the Manner of Tom Jenks’ ‘Spruce’ During the Time of the Coronavirus Pandemic”.

Originally published Infection House July 2020

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These lines are to commemorate my spectacular failure to win the North Street Book Prize with my 2024 collection “After Spruce: Poems in the Manner of Tom Jenks’ ‘Spruce’ During the Time of the Coronavirus Pandemic”.

Originally published Infection House July 2020

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These lines are to commemorate my spectacular failure to win the North Street Book Prize with my 2024 collection “After Spruce: Poems in the Manner of Tom Jenks’ ‘Spruce’ During the Time of the Coronavirus Pandemic”.

Originally published Infection House July 2020

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With thanks to Winning Writers’ managing editor Annie Mydla for her stunning review of my 2024 collection of pandemic poems, After Spruce, in her recent article, “Three Books that Almost Won a North Street Book Prize”. Yes, I didn’t win the prestigious Prize, but had I won I would never have received these beautifully written – and very witty – words from Annie, who herself pays homage to Tom Jenks’ inspirational Spruce in her exploration of how two works of experimental poetry, a little bug from Wuhan and a whole lot of innocent pangolins just happened to collide.

You can read Annie’s article at Winning Writers here:

https://winningwriters.com/resources/three-more-great-books-from-the-2025-north-street-book-prize

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