Perfect for this time of year, when the trees are budding, the sky is lightening, and there’s a little bit of potency in the air… Three Drops from a Cauldron have released their latest anthology – the Beltane edition, and my poem ‘The Silver Birch’ has been included! You can read the anthology online here….
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Book Review: Being With Me Will Help You Learn by Thomas McColl
Originally posted on Three Drops from a Cauldron:
A Three Drops Review Being With Me Will Help You Learn by Thomas McColl [Reviewed by Caroline Hardaker] ‘Being With Me Will Help You Learn’ is a truly eclectic collection of poetry, poetic prose, and short stories by Thomas McColl. McColl’s fictions have been widely published in contemporary…
Rat’s Ass Review – ‘Love & Ensuing Madness’ Collection
My poem ‘Succubus’ has been featured in the Rat’ Ass Review ‘Love & Ensuing Madness’ collection. Woohoo! Here’s the link. It’d be amazing to see this collection as a print edition – the poetry is so eclectic and (a lot of the time) freaky. It’s an honour to be included alongside names I’m starting to recognise….
Fresh Featured – March 2016
At little belatedly, I’m posting a link to my Fresh Featured interview for Pankhearst. I was the Fresh Featured Poet for March 2016! I’ll always have so much love for Pankhearst. They were one of the first places to publish my work at all, and they’ve had constant belief in the words I write. I…
Malkin Review
Almost immediately after beginning to read, I felt compelled to write a review of this pamphlet. Malkin by Camille Ralphs is a collection of poetic testimonies of the accused from the Pendle Witch Trials of 1612. Published by The Emma Press, the pamphlet is wildly different from their other collections, and is all the more…
Three Poems on Swings & Roundabouts
I’ve had three poems published on the Swings & Roundabouts blog – yippee! Swings & Roundabouts is an up-and-coming artistic collective, sharing work from poets, artists, fiction writers, and anyone else if they feel the need to express a creative outburst. You can read the three poems on the Swings & Roundabouts website here. .
Neon Literary Magazine, Issue 42
I’m in the wonderfully apocalyptic 42nd issue of Neon Literary Magazine! If you haven’t heard of it, Neon specialises in the dark, the strange, and the apocalyptic, and is so amazingly edgy that I can hardly believe I’m in it. Me – edgy! You can read my three featured poems via the Neon website, downloading the…
Daisies
A little reminder that things are always growing, even when you don’t expect it: Old Age Sitting silent still. Low to earth, resting old bones. The daisies still grow. © Caroline Hardaker 2016 I wrote this haiku years ago and it was shared on a large poetry website. The website had technical difficulties and…
The Nos.
And the unavoidable Nos. We’ve all had one. Very probably more than one. The often blunt response to a carefully curated piece of your creativity can hurt, yes, but it’s also a constructive thing. I thought I should write this in solidarity, for everyone that’s received a No! If you put yourself out there, they’ll…
Journal#2: Ghostly Words
I keep coming back to the more otherworldy words I write. Telling a ghost story can be as simple as telling a very ordinary story where something goes dreadfully wrong, and it’s hard to understand such an unusual turn of events. A hand found behind the curtain, a finger dropping off when a knuckle is…
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