Poetry Scotland Review reviews Where Rockets Burn Through!

Sally Evans of Poetry Scotland has written a substantial review of Where Rockets Burn Through. I urge you, as a midwife might urge a woman with child to 'push' or 'breathe', to read it and then go and buy several copies and bathe in its glory. Push. Breathe. Read. Buy.

http://poetryscotlandreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/sci-fi-poetry-liftoff.html?m=1


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Nature, naturally

The splendid folks at Nature have recorded 5 poems from "Where Rockets Burn Through"! Listen to them here:

http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/index-futures-2012-12-19.html

Poems featured:

"The UFOlogists" by Claire Askew
"Physics for the Unwary Student" by Pippa Goldschmidt
"Future Dating" by Joe Dunthorne
"Supper" by Kirsten Irving
"Man-of-War" by Ian McLaughlan

Enjoy!


Russell Jones

Lift off in Londinium

Get your T-Kirk costume out from the back of the cupboard, dust the ray gun, wash your BabelFish! It's nearly time for the London launch of Where Rockets Burn Through!

Toynbee studios are our hosts, with readings from Jon Stone, Kirsty Irving, Kelley Swain, Simon Barraclough, Sue Guiney (and more to be confirmed!)

The Ladies of The Press will also be doing mad and impressive things to your synapses, don't miss it.

The event blasts off at 7:30 and nerds in costumes are warmly welcomed -

Thursday 6 December, 7.30pm

Toynbee Studios
28 Commercial Street
London E1 6AB

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The First Review

The first review is a scary moment, I've found. But I'm happy to report that Starburst Magazine gave "Where Rockets Burn Through" a glowing 8/10.

Special mention also of Sarah Westcott's poem, "O" and Malene Engelund's "Owls"

Read it here!

http://www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/book-reviews-latest-literary-releases/4090-book-review-where-rockets-burn-through



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Where Rockets Burn Through

Hear ye Hear ye! Come one and all to a future of ray guns and alien invasions. Where Rockets Burn Through: Contemporary Science Fiction Poems from the UK is my début collection as an editor, a splendiferous anthology of sci-fi poems from the wondrous beings listed below.

Grab a copy if you like sci-fi. Grab a copy if you like poetry. Grab a copy if you like sci-fi poetry. Grab a copy if you don't like anything, misery guts. You can buy a copy from the publisher, Penned In the Margins, for just £9.99 here http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2012/10/where-rockets-burn-through-2/

Edinburgh will be hosting our first book launch, with readings by Andy Jackson, Andrew J Wilson, Pippa Goldschmidt, Alan Riach, Claire Askew, Jane McKie, Ken MacLeod and Ron Butlin. Come along to Blackwells book store, Southbridge (EH1 1YS) on Thursday 29th November at 6:00pm.

London shakes us by the tentacle on 6th December at Toynbee Studios. Fancy dress is welcomed, so pick up your Bat'leth and get yourself along. Details here: http://www.artsadmin.co.uk/events/3158

Where Rockets Burn Through contains poetry from over 40 contemporary writers living and working in the UK, an essay by sci-fi poetry expert Steve Sneyd and a preface from Alasdair Gray. It includes poems by, and is dedicated to, Edwin Morgan.

Poets included:

Claire Askew
Simon Barraclough
Ron Butlin
Tom Chivers
Greg Delanty
Joe Dunthorne
Malene Engelund
Andrew Ferguson
Peter Finch
Matthew Francis
Pippa Goldschmidt
Sue Guiney
Aiko Harman
WN Herbert
Sarah Hesketh
Kirsty Irving
Andy Jackson
Ken MacLeod
Kona Macphee
Lorraine Mariner
Brian McCabe
Chris McCabe
James McGonigal
Jane McKie
Ian McLachlan
Edwin Morgan
Alan Riach
James Robertson
Dilys Rose
Nikesh Shulka
Steve Sneyd
Jon Stone
Ross Sutherland
Kelley Swain
Barnaby Tidman
Ryan Van Winkle
Sarah Westcott
Chrissy Williams
Andrew J Wilson
Jane Yolen

Happy National Poetry Day

To celebrate this year's National Poetry Day, on the theme of "stars", Penned in the Margins have published James McGonigal's splendiferous poem, "space chaplain" on their site. Read it here!
http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2012/10/a-sci-fi-poem-for-national-poetry-day/

James' poem will be in print as of November 2012, in Where Rockets Burn Through: Science Fiction Poems from the UK, from Penned in the Margins (edited by my gloomy self)


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A début of (anti) depressants

How are you feeling? You look a little pasty. A bit pale. Pallid. Put out. Pukey. Perturbed. Sick. Sad. Sedate. Oh that’s just how you always look? Fair enough. Get some sunlight down ya, Nosferatu.

When your Vitamin D levels are back to an acceptable level why not get yourself down to the Scottish Poetry Library (EH8 8DT) on Friday October 19^th (6:30-8pm) for the launch of Mairi Campbell-Jack’s double pamphlet extravaganza. There is the sweet and succulent promise of homemade wine! Oh, and poems.

Once you’ve sobered up buy a copy of her book. Go on you cheap skate, buy it. It’s a two-parter about the happy subjects of post natal depression and the breakup of her marriage. You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll cry a bit more. Party hats not provided.

Mairi Campbell-Jack’s debut collection, “This is a Poem” is published by Burning Eye Books.

Russell Jones