publications
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I’ve only just discovered that “A Rough Guide to Monday Morning”, the first piece in Tonguefire, was poem of the week in Saturday’s Scotsman. If I’d known on Saturday I’d have bought the paper! Irritatingly, they have the title slightly wrong. I wonder whether that was a sub trying to shoehorn it into a preconceived
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island magazine, published by Julie Johnstone’s Essence Press is a beautifully produced, hand-bound biannual publication concentrating on poetry concerned with nature. I don’t like to use the term “nature poetry” lest it conveys something twee, which island is not. Julie describes it as “new writing inspired by nature and exploring our place within the natural
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I arrived home on Friday to a most pleasant, unexpected piece of post: a pamphlet containing poems from the 2005 Amnesty International poetry competition, with my winning poem in pole position. With a nice sense of cheek and irony, the pamphlet is entitled “Extraordinary Renditions”. You can purchase it from Anthea West, the secretary of
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Roddy Lumsden has reviewed HappenStance and its publications for his blog on the Books from Scotland site. This is what he has to say about Tonguefire: My favourite of the bunch is Andrew Philip’s Tonguefire, a selection of careful, image-heavy lyric pieces dealing with the domestic and the numinous. I first encountered Philip, who now
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A Rough Guide to Monday MorningBee PurpleFor Broken or Worse (sequence)Hairst Day (Scots translation of Rilke’s “Herbsttag”)Man With a Dove on His HeadThe Image of Gold and the Fiery FurnaceWaiting for the Rains to Come
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Here is Anna Crowe’s review of Tonguefire in issue 2 of Sphinx (the “Common Reader” comment is a feature of the magazine): What strikes the reader at once, reading Andrew Philip’s collection Tonguefire (with stylishly emblematic cover), is the sheer energy and power of these poems. The writing is muscular, urgent and assured, offering a
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There are a couple of reviews of Tonguefire (the pamphlet, that is, not the blog) online. Colin Will’s concise review is on the review pages of the Poetry Scotland website. You have to scroll down quite a way or do a search for the title. He says mine is “a refreshing and distinctive new voice”,
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“For Broken or Worse“, has been posted on Spring Tides. The sequence is about the consequences of anger and depression in a marriage and is written in the voice of the wife. Section V from the sequence, “A Perfect Drying Day”, won last year’s Amnesty competition. The Spring Tides website is very nicely designed: not
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My short sequence, “For Broken or Worse”, will be published on the Spring Tides poetry group website in the next week. Look out for the link appearing under “Publications”.
Amy Jo Philip 