Poetry Monthly

Posted by VeraClark on Wed, 05 Apr 2017

I’m sad to inform you that Poetry Monthly has come to its natural end. There have been so many talented poets on board since its start in 2015 and we've had such pleasure in reading each other's beautiful outputs each month. I want to thank all of you for contributing ideas for briefs, for your inspirations and for consistently bringing so much to the table with the sort of quality peer feedback that writers would be hard pushed to pay for. ABC members such as beloved Bee, Bear, Ed Crane, Accidentallyexisting, Canonette, Silver Spun Sand, Rhiannon, londoncalling, PhilipSidney, Rhiannon, and luigipagano knocked out work month after month, and now that some of those members have gone it has all fallen a bit flat despite efforts to get new members crafting poems. If I’ve forgotten to thank anyone do forgive me - many of you have been involved. 

What I would like to do is encourage any fresh faces or lifers with sparkly ideas for new initiatives to contact insertponceyfrenchname or a member of the editing team. I’ll leave you with one of my favourites from Philip Sidney, ‘Mindscape: Ice’, which was written for Poetry Monthly:

www.abctales.com/story/philip-sidney/mindscape-ice-poetry-monthly

 I wish you all good things and thanks again. Keep writing,

Ray

​Photo Credit: http://tinyurl.com/l9juv2v

 

Comments

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

Vera, we are so grateful to you for keeping up Poetry Monthly for so long - Huge thanks! xx

 

Submitted by Linda Wigzell Cress on

Thank you Vera for Poetry Monthly, providing that incentive and inspiration enabling would be poets such as myself to carry on writing during good times and bad. It has been brilliant.

Linda

Submitted by Philip Sidney on

What a shame - wish I'd written more of these. Thank you for your inspiration, Vera - and for sharing my poem! x

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

I was very sorry to read of the Poetry Monthly’s demise. The last time I looked in it was full of life and not at all moribund.
Whether it is due to the lack of submissions or perhaps to the fact that the quality of the input wasn’t of the quality expected, I shall miss this particular feature which, in parallel with the weekly Inspiration Point, is challenging and stimulating.
I hope that ABC will not suffer a similar decline.
My grateful thanks to Ray who has done a sterling job all this time.

 

Submitted by Ed Crane on

I will miss PM very much, often it was the only thing on ABC that got me thinking poetry. I confess I struggled to come up with something every month, but the notes you wrote were always inspired me to look up the poets and styles you mentioned.

I hesitate to say this, but I did get the feeling that not only was it losing support of the members, but it seem to be lacking support from the site also. It's a great pity, as is losing Bee and the wonderful contributions of yourself and Bear. 

I do hope IP doesn't go the same way, we all need a little jump start from time to time and both PM and IP fit the bill.

Cheers and thanks

Ed (Keith)

 

Submitted by Ray Schaufeld on

I echo the views of many of you. I hope the IP continues. I feel that since Tony left we have shrunk a bit, less readers and maybe fewer contributors. Not sure why, it could be that some of us are now putting out freshly minted works directly onto Amazon, maybe others are focussing on Open Mic.

I hope we carry on. I live in a small town and my nearest city is small-ish. It means a lot to me to get my work out to the wider world and to read fresh new writings here on good old Abc.

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

The IP isn't going anywhere (and neither are we) - and if any of you would like to help us out by running the Poetry Monthly I would be delighted and very grateful (as would Ray!). Just email me at admin@abctales.com.

 

 

 

Submitted by celticman on

sad, but I guess things change and it's difficult. Well done for all the work you put in. 

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

... and we have a rescuer for Poetry Monthly - hooray! - see here:

https://www.abctales.com/blog/insertponceyfrenchnamehere/poetry-monthly-...