‘Anthropocene Dreaming’ published in Gleam

Earlier this year, I experimented with a rhymed cadralor. This idea has interested me for a while, as I wasn’t sure it could be done successfully, especially with the contextual dissonance required between stanzas. However, I sent it off to the editorial board at Gleam – Journal of the Cadralor, and they said “yes”! Thanks to Lori and the team for accepting my poem. Here is the opening:

I.

Lowther Castle
skeletal, among the autumn leaves
ablaze beneath the hill of Askham
shedding skins through centuries 

II.

Buoyed by Storm Babet
the broken body of the whale
along coast at Whitley Bay
skies, gray as gunmetal

Continue reading in Issue 7 of Gleam.

Though this particular cadralor is not included in To Catch a Poem (as it was still under submission at the time of publication), my new poetry pamphlet does include two cadralore, one of which appeared in Issue 6 of Gleam. Thank you once again for helping me reach the Number 1 New Release spot on Amazon, I’m still coming down off that high! And thank you to the wonderful Selma Martin, author of In the Shadow of Rainbows, for this perceptive and insightful review of my book:

Selma’s review of To Catch a Poem

“Nothing grounds us more than recognizing that in all the world there’s one
place that belongs to us and, more importantly, to which we belong. And I like
nothing more than to read about beautiful places and people who, more than
just inhabiting the place, the place inhabits them.

“Reading once through the poems in To Catch A Poem …and other lines I walked
by Ingrid Wilson incited in me the recognition that here was a poet who was
happy to tell me about this beautiful place where she lives.

“In the book, the poet tells me that she goes crisscrossing the Northern
coast of England, her homeland, in search of “lines” of poetry and that these are
hidden in high places and wooded hollows. That nature is her place of worship,
and poetry her song of praise. I loved knowing this, and since purchasing the
print copy of the book, have reread it from start to finish several times.”

Read the full review at selmamartin.com.

So it is with the utmost feeling of warmth and gratitude that I enter the holiday season. May you all have a wonderful time, however you spend the days between now and the New Year, when Team EIF will have another exciting announcement!

Ingrid