After a short hiatus following the retirement of founding Editor Sally Evans, Poetry Scotland is back! Andy Jackson and myself will be editing it, with Sheena Blackhall and Sheila Templeton (Doric Advisers) and Maggie Rabatski and Maoilios Caimbeul (Gaelic Advisers). It will be twice-yearly, and Issue 101 opens for submissions on 1st January 2021. See the website for details of how to submit poems, and how to subscribe.
Very pleased to have my Forth Bridge calligramme included in the book version of Scotia Extremis, edited by Brian Johnstone and Andy Jackson – out now from Luath Press.
Very pleased to have a poem, The Bell, in Issue 22 of ARTEMISpoetry. The magazine is available from Second Light Live
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
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.
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.
https://www.northwordsnow.co.uk/viewer/?issue=36
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!
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!
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 Drunk Muse Press. Up the Republic!
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