"Seven bums and fourteen legs,
a brazen ecstasy which begs
the question some of us are asking -
is Peter Goulding multi-tasking?"

Martin Parker, Editor, Lighten Up Online

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Hallowe'en Success!!

 I recently entered a Hallowe'en poetry competition at a recently discovered English site called The Poetry Box.  
And blow me, but didn't I win! What I won, apart from the prestige, certificate and winners' issue, was an inscribed silver cup, which is pretty heavy and which I have now started to take to bed with me. My wife says I can't walk down the sitting room without pausing in front of it and raising it aloft like I was at Wembley.
As part of the deal, I had to supply a photo to send back to the Poetry Box with the Cup. My son dutifully did the honours (above) but then insisted on a photo more in keeping with the theme of Hallowe'en (below)
Please check out the Poetry Box. It is a very quirky site and specialises in... well, I will let the editor, Barley Robinson, explain:

"The Poetry Box Dark & Horror Poetry Magazine Monthly' publishes not only Dark, Horror, Gothic and Romantic Poetry - but Satire and Black Comedy Poetry, too.    As a Poet myself, I write primarily within the latter genres - with occasional forays into the Dark and Melodramatically Theatrical Gothic.  The modern Horror Poetry genre is frequently overwhelmed by an excess of formulaic 'Vampire-Themed' and 'Haunted-Themed' Poems - and by neo-Romantic sentiment regarding the dubious or delightful pleasures of loneliness, revenge and death.  As Editor however, I do believe that across all literary genres there is nothing quite as 'Dark' as the Contemporary 'Satirical and Black Comedy' Poet - and perhaps - no other genre of poetry demands wit, perception, observation and personal integrity and opinion in quite so healthy proportions."

4 comments:

  1. A Cup, an actual poetry trophy!Wahoo!

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  2. .... we knew him when!! Congrats.

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  3. Peadar, yes, incredible for one so talentless, eh?
    Helen, how you doing? Long time no hear!

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  4. Well done Peter, we have a prize-winning author in our midst!

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