ISBNs:
print: 978-1-913665-18-0
ePub: 978-1-913665-19-7
kindle: 978-1-913665-20-3
Price: £8.99
Publication: 17th December 2020
Format: 129x198mm
Extent: 64 pages
Poetry/Short Fiction
BIC: DCQ/FL/FM/FQ/FYB
For Solstice Shorts Festival 2020
A Corona virus influenced anthology; stories and poems in response to the poem TYMES GOE BY TURNES by sixteenth century poet, Robert Southwell.
Frustrated by working under lockdown and worried that the 2020 festival might not happen, Arachne Press decided to continue as though everything would be alright, and asked writers to submit work that was inspired by a sixteenth century poem that editor Cherry Potts has always found comforting in a crisis: Robert Southwell’s Tymes Goe by Turnes.
The poem observes the ebb and flow of fortune, nothing stays bad for ever, nor anything good – so get on with it while you can.
This isn’t exactly a response to Covid-19, but there’s an echo there – in Kelly Davis’s The Saddest Birdes a Season find to Singe, Katie Margaret Hall’s epic train journey, New Orleans To Vancouver, and Jackie Taylor’s Rewilding; but there is also concern for the environment, and relationships and lives in need of nourishment that is sometimes hard to find.
As with Southwell’s poem there is a fine balance between dread and hope.
Poems
A J Bermudez Ni de aquí, ni de allá
C L Hearnden, 179cm
Claire Booker, Piano Lessons, and Bringing in the Fruit
Elinor Brooks, Sir Thomas Wyatt’s Cat
Jane Aldous, Sirius
Julian Bishop, Slow Burn
Karen Ankers, In Dark
Katie Margaret Hall, New Orleans To Vancouver
Kelly Davis, The Saddest Birdes a Season Find to Sing
Laila Sumpton, Cronos
Lynn White, In the Rocks
Ness Owen, Beach Clean
S.B. Merrow, For Ellen
Sean Carney, A Memory Forgotten
Stories
Brooke Stanicki, A Felled Tree
Jackie Taylor, Rewilding
Jane Mclaughlin, Sketchbook
Keely O’Shaughnessy, When Naked Plants Renew
Linda McMullen, Deep Blue Sea
Margaret Crompton, Turner’s World of Twirls
Neil Lawrence, Return
Patience Mackarness, Roots
Pippa Gladhill, Twelve Point Plan