Scifaiku accepted into Zine #3
While I wait for my five minutes of fame on the Rochford Street Review's Bloomsday Edition, I thought I would share my other publication of a scifaiku poem that will be published in the Peter Cowan Writers Centre's Zine #3, The Tides we Change These are the other scifaiku submitted that failed.. Two RobotsSqueak arms and legsNo knee replacements –o- Terracotta warriorsLine ten abreastNeed oil like robots -o- Advertising screenModel…
Stream of Consciousness
Since it will soon be Bloomsday, a Dublin Festival I thought we might take a look at James Joyce's work,esp. The Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the latter being the easiest to read and The Dubliners quite a remarkable example of stream of consciousness. © Stream of ConsciousnessThe phrase “Stream of Consciousness” was used by William James in 1890 to describe the unbroken flow of thought and awareness of the waking mind.…
Bloomsday
A Dublin Poem accepted for Publication in Rochford Street Review I visited Ireland in 2013 staying at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Newbliss, County Monahan. I had an interesting time and a few mishaps. The following poem is one of them, however with a few edits on the old draft, I've now managed to have it published in Mark Roberts' journal, The Rochford Street Review in their 2026 Bloomsday Edition. Bloomsday (Irish: Lá Bloom) is a commemoration and…
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Watching the Dark Slip Away
New Poem 1st Draft When news came to write a poemabout light and dark, I first thought ofnight and day, but that was too simple. Maybe, as I sat with my coffee and toast,the early morning lines of blue and pinkin the sky were more interesting as they played snakes and ladders with the clouds.The silver gum joined in with the game andas the sun rose higher in the sky, dazzled the numerous doves and crested pigeonsnestled in the tree tops. I…
Women & Fiction: Fay Weldon
Looking at the short story collection; Wicked Women © Fay Weldon was born in Worcester, England 1931 where her father was a physician and her mother a writer. She was educated at the University of St. Andrews, from which she received her M.A. in 1954. Six years later, she married Ronald Weldon. Weldon worked as a propaganda writer for the British Foreign Office and then as an advertising copywriter for various firms in London before making…
Women & Fiction: Flannery O’Connor
Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American writer and essayist. An important voice in American literature, O'Connor wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters. O'Connor's writing also reflected her own Roman Catholic faith, and…
Women & Fiction: Katharine Mansfield
Looking at her short story, The Garden Party Katherine Mansfield was born in Wellington as the daughter of a successful businessman. Her family was wealthy enough to afford to send her to Queen's College, London for her education. She then returned to New Zealand for two years, before going back to London to pursue a literary career. She quickly fell into the bohemian way of life lived by many artists of that era. With little money,…
Women & Fiction: Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room…
Women & Fiction: Alice Munro
Alice Munro (born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian author writing in English. Munro's work has been described as having revolutionized the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time. Munro's fiction is most often set in her native Huron County in southwestern Ontario. Her stories explore human complexities in an uncomplicated prose style. Munro's writing has established her as "one of our…
Short Fiction: Daphne Du Maurier
Featuring Panic from Rendezvous & Other Stories Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning DBE (1907 – 1989) was an English author and playwright. Her elder sister was the writer Angela du Maurier. Her father was the actor Gerald du Maurier. Her grandfather was the writer George du Maurier. She amassed 159 works including novels, short stories, plays, and biographies, and in 1969 she was made a Dame Commander in the Order of the British…
