I've just now received two editions of Steve Sneyd's "Data Dump" (issues 183 and 184) in the post, which to my delight include a short list, and list of winners, for the 8th Annual Data Dump Award for science fiction poems published in Britain in 2012.
The keen-eyed among you will notice several nominations from Where Rockets Burn Through. The dull-eyed won't, but you've just been told, so read it again and brighten your cataracts:
SHORT LIST
Paul Farley, "The Circling Stars" (The Dark Film, Picador)
Bryn Fortey, "Singing" (Poetry Cornwall, iss 35)
W.N. Herbert, "Ice Station Zog" (Where Rockets Burn Through, Penned in the Margins)
D.S. Ketelby, "Lewisham, Monday. 10:47AM" (Banana Wings, iss. 51)
John Light, "Alone at Last" (Apocalypse: Poetry from the end of the world, Atlantean)
James McGonigal, "Inflight Memories" (Where Rockets Burn Through, Penned in the Margins)
Peter E. Presford, "Waiting Game" (On The Other Side of Dreams, Malfunction, Pantheon)
George Stevens, "In Robo Parentis" (Handshake, iss. 83)
Jon Stone, "What Robots Murmur Through Broken Sleep" (Where Rockets Burn Through, Penned in the Margins)
Barnaby Tidman, "Megara" (Where Rockets Burn Through, Penned in the Margins)
J.S. Watts, "Steelyard Sue Builds a Baby" (Songs of Steel-yard Sue, Lapwing)
Neal Wilgus, "O Brave New Atlantis Or, Lo! Passtellologue-Scriptolloids" (Awen, iss. 77)
AND THE WINNERS ARE....
FIRST PLACE
J.S. Watts, "Steelyard Sue Builds a Baby" (Songs of Steel-yard Sue, Lapwing)
SECOND PLACE
Jon Stone, "What Robots Murmur Through Broken Sleep" (Where Rockets Burn Through, Penned in the Margins)
THIRD PLACE
Barnaby Tidman, "Megara" (Where Rockets Burn Through, Penned in the Margins)
Congrats to all! If you'd like to read any of the poems from the folks published in Where Rockets Burn Through then you can buy several copies of the book here:
http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2012/10/where-rockets-burn-through-2/
Russell Jones
