Phillip Ellis

Latest Appearance: Bluepepper

admin — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:47:27 +0000

Footsteps in sand (image courtesy of The Financial Philosopher)

Website: http://bluepepper.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/new-poetry-by-phillip-ellis.html

My poem “Once on a Beach” has just appeared on the blog Bluepepper, a favourite place of mine for poetry. It is, as always, a pleasure and an honour to appear there, and I am always happy to see that familiar email address [...]

Latest Acceptances: Modern Haiku

admin — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:06:42 +0000

Grey Currawong (image courtesy of Wikipedia)

Website: http://www.modernhaiku.org/

My latest piece to be accepted has been taken by Modern Haiku. It is, as you may guess, a haiku, and one about the Australian bird the currawong (hence the picture).

I’ve had a handful of haiku appear, so far, and this by far the most [...]

A Ballade

admin — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 04:32:44 +0000

Southern lights (image courtesy of Eclectique)

My life’s an ode so sweet it glows in crystal airs that rhyme like poems that pare away the lies that flow into our heads, our hearts, our homes, and poison art that would atone for all our vices and our sin, for this ode’s like a sinewed [...]

Latest Appearances: Whistling Shade

admin — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 06:13:28 +0000

Cover of Whistling Shade (image courtesy of Whistling Shade)

Website: http://whistlingshade.com/

The latest of my poems to appear has turned up on my doorstep. It is the piece “Syllabics”, that is to be found in Whistling Shade Literary Journal. That cover to the right of this text? That’s the very issue the poem appears [...]

Guest Blog: In Defense of Dark Arcadia (By Gavin Callaghan)

admin — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 07:21:04 +0000

Book cover (image courtesy of McFarland Publishers)

My weird odyssey into the mind of H. P. Lovecraft started approximately seven years ago, when I began an in-depth study of his works; eventually culminating in my writing a book of essays, shortly to be published by McFarland, under the title H. P. Lovecraft’s Dark Arcadia: [...]

An Apology and a Recent Acceptance

admin — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 08:21:19 +0000

Ascent Aspirations Magazine cover image (image courtesy of Ascent Aspirations Magazine)

Website: http://www.ascentaspirations.ca/

I’ve recently had to take a break from blogging, as I was feeling burnt out, especially after NaPoWriMo. That hasn’t stopped me from having poems accepted and pearing here and there, but, since this is my first day back, and since [...]

Recent Acceptances: Eye on Life Online Magazine

admin — Sun, 05 May 2013 10:20:11 +0000

Loy Yang (image courtesy of The Age)

Website: http://eyeonlifemag.com/

I have heard, today, that Eye on Life Online Magazine have accepted three of my poems, “Imagines”, “Light Is on the Hills”, and “Loy Yang”. The three will go online around the twelfth.

I am very pleased at the news, as the three are pencilled [...]

Recent Appearances: William Hope Hodgson

admin — Sun, 05 May 2013 09:53:23 +0000

William Hope Hodgson (image courtesy of William Hope Hodgson)

Website: http://williamhopehodgson.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/a-note-on-the-future-of-hodgson-studies/

I have, today, had a guest post placed on the William Hope Hodgson blog. In it I make a case for going out and writing the sort of material we want to read about Hodgson, because, if we didn’t, nobody else will do [...]

NaPoWriMo Day 30: A Fixed Shot for the Closing Credits

admin — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:10:43 +0000

“A Fixed Shot for the Closing Credits”

We let our vision linger on the sun, so close it seems a swollen orange colour that dominates the screen we see, and when you notice how the dark horizon lingers,

you see it is a setting [...]

NaPoWriMo Day 29: A Blank Verse Villanelle from April

admin — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 22:29:15 +0000

The word ‘poetry’ (image courtesy of Tracey’s Truth)

“A Blank Verse Villanelle from April”

My life is shaped by poetry, and love in many ways. These days, I live for beauty alike the lives of many other men

before me. Let me count the ways I mean: the way I dream, the way create, [...]