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Distillations: Alliteration
As I mentioned last month, this column will be exploring various poetry techniques each month and how they are used in current speculative poetry. This month’s featured technique is alliteration, which is defined as the repetition of initial consonants or consonant sounds. It is a simple technique which can be powerful if not overdone. It […]
Continue ReadingAstropoetica 5.1 Spring/Summer 2007
Astropoetica 5.1 (Spring/Summer 2007) is the latest issue of this poetry-only webzine. The subtitle reads “mapping the stars through poetry,” which is evidently intended to make a statement about the purpose of the magazine. If so, the statement is rather cryptic, because only about half of the poems are really about astronomy. […]
Continue ReadingDistillations: Imagery
For many people, poetry is a strange new land, as bizarre as any landscape imagined by Tolkien, Heinlein, or in extreme cases, Lovecraft. As the number of poetry reviewers at The Fix grows, I will be taking some time each month to discuss the mechanics of poetry. This guide will not make the landscape any […]
Continue ReadingIn the Yaddith Time by Ann K. Schwader
Speculative poet Ann K. Schwader’s collection, In the Yaddith Time, is an ambitious thirty–six sonnet sequence inspired by H. P. Lovecraft’s famous sonnet cycle, Fungi from Yuggoth (coll. 1941). Schwader, an exceptionally talented poet, is able to tell her story in naturally rhythmic conversational verse that builds in intensity, pulling the reader across […]
Continue ReadingDistillations: An Introduction
Welcome to Distillations, a monthly review of Speculative Poetry. The field of Speculative Poetry embraces every subgenre of science fiction and fantasy imaginable in every existing poetry form, plus some made up fresh for the occasion. What it doesn’t include is a lot of words. That means that every letter, every piece of punctuation, […]
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