Legendary SF magazine Worlds of IF has now relaunched! It published Asimov back in the day! The new issue is on FREE download, with a story from the mighty Robert Silverberg. More than that, it features a story and four new speculative poems from one A J Dalton, don’t-cha-know! Hurrah! https://worldsofifmagazine.com#scifi
Eh up! Four poems in the winter edition of Siren’s Call magazine for you (pp.131-32), init. Don’t be scared. Read them for free here: http://www.sirenscallpublications.com/pdfs/SirensCallEZine_Winter2023_2024.pdf.
Phew! I’ve now done a full update for 2024 here: https://metaphysicalfantasy.wordpress.com/events/uk-conventions-and-festivals-scifi-fantasy-and-horror/
Hurrah! Just had a new poem (Valkyrie Love) published in the Songs of Eretz Poetry Review. You can read it for free here: http://www.songsoferetz.com/2023/12/winter-issue-winter-solstice-2023.html. (Best to use the ‘Find on page’ search function, cos it’s a long way down!)
Happy to say that, in the nick of time for xmas, I’ve just had a set of five Norse-inspired poems published by Lothlorien Poetry Journal. You can see ’em for free here: https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2023/12/five-poems-by-j-dalton.html.
Hurrah! Just had a poem titled ‘Resetting’ published in issue 4 (vol 34) of Mobius: The Journal for Social Change. The poem’s about a resurrected woolly mammoth and available to read for free here: http://mobiusmagazine.com/poetry/resettin.html.
I’m thrilled to say that Star*Line magazine (run by the Science Fiction Poetry Association – SFPA) has just published one of my jaunty speculative poems in issue 4 (vol 46), and it’s won ‘Editor’s Choice’. Hurrah! The poem’s titled ‘Digital Desire’ and can be seen for free here: https://www.sfpoetry.com/sl/edchoice/46.4-2.html. The poem’s a lonely hearts’ ad posted by a killer robot!
I’m happy to say that Ev0ke have just published one of my Norse poems, with an awesome piece of art work. You can see the poem here: https://ev0kepublication.com/2023/10/21/the-final-saga/.
Just had a new poem published, titled ‘Recipe’, in Eye to the Telescope, issue 50! It’s an eco-critical and transhumanist poem, init. Read it for free here: http://www.eyetothetelescope.com/ – hurrah!
Double hurrah! I’ve just had a couple of fantasy poems published in issue 3 of Illustrated Worlds magazine. Do you know, six months ago, I didn’t even know ‘speculative poetry’ (fantasy, sci-fi and horror) was even a thing? Funny what you stumble across on a dark night. Check it out here: https://www.illustratedworldsmagazine.com/shop.html#/.
Issue 3 contents:
“The biggest issue yet! Volume #3 has more art and more fiction than ever! Peruse illustrations by Charles Saplack, Ojo Moses, J. Cox, Kristy Greenwood, Edward Michael Supranowicz, Simon Savannah and Sonali Roy, and read fiction by Alison McBain, J. J. Steinfeld, Kanishk Tantia, Daniel David Froid, Glenn Dungan, Ned Marcus, Chris Kuriata and poetry by A J Dalton. Barbara Candiotti’s beautiful cover sets the mood.”
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