Wednesday 7 April 2010

Poems on the Web (6): Thalatta! Thalatta!

A blue plaque in Tenby, South Wales

I am delighted that Dr Marc Latham's Folding Mirror Poetry form is listed on Professor Lewis Turco's 'manuscript-in-circulation' entitled The Book of Odd and Invented Forms. The two examples of the form are:
  • 'Hourglass of Time' by Claire Knight, 2009 First Prize winner of the Haiku section of the New Zealand International Poetry Society Competition (and winner of the Jeanette Stace Memorial Prize).
  • 'Thalatta! Thalatta!' by yours truly.
I have long admired Professor Turco's work, 'The Book of Forms: a Handbook of Poetics', and am delighted that he is planning a sequel. You can read about Dr Marc Latham's Folding Mirror Poetry form on the FMP site here.

2 comments:

Naquillity said...

sounds like you'll be picking up a new read soon. in the meantime, congrats on your poem Thalatta, Thalatta. have a great day.

Marc Latham said...

Thanks for the this post, the initial alert, the poem and all your work on the form.

It's great that your work appears on a site, and hopefully later in a book, of a poet and writer you admire.