A good note [pun intended, sorry] to end the year on – I have a new poem, Contemporary Bassoon, in the December issue of The Lake.
The poem was inspired by a performance of Berio’s Sequenza XII by Pascal Gallois at the Sound Festival last November
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November 2018 – Ink Sweat and Tears
My poem Platform is up today at Ink Sweat and Tears – lovely to be back there!
http://www.inksweatandtears.co.uk/pages/?p=17800
November 2018 – Firth
Just received my contributor’s copy of Issue 2 of Firth, with my poem Preparations. I’m so chuffed to be in this lovely magazine. You can find it on Facebook at the link above if you would like to order a copy.
November 2018 – Northwords Now
Issue 36 of Northwords Now is out and I’m very chuffed it includes a poem of mine: Rooms by the sea, inspired by a painting by Edward Hopper and by Anne-Marie Fyfe‘s “Edge of the Depths” workshop in Findhorn this summer.
October 2018 – Three Drops from a Cauldron
Very pleased to have two poems, Grandmother Clock and The Pictish Book of the Dead, in the Samhain Special edition of Three Drops from a Cauldron.
October 2018 – Second Light Poetry Competition
Delighted to have a poem, Top-down history, commended in the annual Second Light Competition. It will appear, along with the winning and other commended poems, in Issue 21 of ARTEMISpoetry in November. Congratulations to everyone who made the list!
September 2018 – Antiphon
Delighted to have a poem, Preservation, in Issue 23 of Antiphon. It’s a science-themed issue and the poem was inspired by the work of the conservators at Dundee University who worked on archive materials damaged in the Perth floods of 1993.
As well as reading or downloading the issue, you can hear contributors’ readings of their poems at the link above.
September – Poetry Scotland
This month sees the publication of Issues 99 and 100 of Poetry Scotland – the last under the editorship of Sally Evans, who with her husband Ian King has published the magazine from its outset. Like many poets I am indebted to Sally and to Poetry Scotland for support and encouragement, and I’m both happy and a little sad to have a poem, Demolition, in Issue 100.
The magazine, however, will go on, under the editorship of Jon Plunkett, and Sally is going on to new projects, and I’m looking forward to both. Vale atque Ave!
August 2018 – The Poets’ Republic
Very pleased to have a poem, Outside the Centre, in Issue 6 of The Poets’ Republic. If you’re not a subscriber, you can buy the magazine from the link above. Up the Republic!
July 2018 – The Interpreter’s House Review of Not in Nightingale Country
from Aoife Lyall’s review of the collection:
… Judith Taylor’s first full poetry collection is one of observation, contemplation, and imagination; drawing its poetic inspiration from myths, legends, modern life, and personal experiences.
The collection’s opening poem ‘Incomer’ posits the speaker as someone new and enthusiatic; someone so keen to embrace their new life that they overwhelm it with their good intentions…
… [a]nd so we learn how to read the rest of this collection: not impressing our lives and experience onto the narratives, but allowing them to teach us something about ourselves.
Taylor re-examines and re-imagines peripheral characters from myth, legend, and fairy-tale… interwined with.. marginal members of our society and our lives: lighthouse keepers, island dwellers, country villagers, taxi drivers…..
… These poems are for and about people living in the margins, on the peripheries by the side-lines of life and give the reader both the chance to be a part of, and stand apart from, these narratives.
from Aoife Lyall Review: Three Collections in The Interpreter’s House 68 (2018) pp 110-111