Not that anybody’s glad to see the back of him or anything, but New Boots and Pantisocracies are organising a DePfeffelschrift for the departing PM, and I have contributed a sonnet, no less – Upon Westminster.

So one of the rare good things in lockdown was that I finally got to fulfil an ambition by taking part in a performance of John Cage’s “4:33”. It was organised online by Red Note Ensemble, with guests, and I was not-playing the treble recorder. And the poem I wrote about the experience is in the Spring 2022 edition of Gyroscope Review.

(John Cage’s score in proportional notation, which I used in the performance, can be seen online at https://hyperallergic.com/85779/the-original-john-cage-433-in-proportional-notation-19521953/)

My poem Luciferins is up today at Ink Sweat & Tears – really good to be back there, it’s a lovely place.

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/

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, 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

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/flowers-judith-taylor/

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/

Very pleased to have a poem, Hand of glory, in Issue 20 of Three Drops from a Cauldron

https://threedropspoetry.co.uk/2017/10/02/three-drops-from-a-cauldron-issue-20-october-2017/

Very pleased to have a new poem, The Cymbals in the Leningrad Symphony, in the new issue (17/4) of Gyroscope Review

http://www.gyroscopereview.com/2017/10/welcome-to-gyroscope-review-issue-17-4/