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

http://www.thelakepoetry.co.uk/poetry-archive/dec18a/

My poem Platform is up today at Ink Sweat and Tears – lovely to be back there!

http://www.inksweatandtears.co.uk/pages/?p=17800

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.

http://northwordsnow.co.uk/

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.

https://threedropspoetry.co.uk/

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.

http://antiphon.org.uk/wordpress/?p=742

Delighted to have a poem, Artefact, on the lovely Atrium website

Artefact – Judith Taylor

(You can see the photograph it refers to in the digital collections of St Andrews University here – click on View Item to see and enlarge the image)

Very honoured to have my poem Flowers, from Not in Nightingale Country, included in the Scottish Poetry Library’s online anthology Best Scottish Poems of 2017

http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poems/flowers-0

Delighted to have a new poem, the nearly-appropriately-titled January, in Issue 22 of Antiphon.

http://antiphon.org.uk/wordpress/?p=657

A lovely end to the poetry year – two new poems, clarinet and Shrine, up today at The Open Mouse

https://theopenmouse.wordpress.com/2017/12/12/judith-taylor-two-poems-2/

Delighted to have a new poem, The Dog, up at Ink Sweat and Tears today

http://www.inksweatandtears.co.uk/pages/?p=14850

UPDATE: the poem was shortlisted for ‘Pick of the Month’ for November. It didn’t win (the winner was Frequency Violet by Kate Edwards, which you can read here) but it was a huge honour to be in such good company!