Spectral Realms 15

S. T. Joshi has included my poems ‘The Banquet of Thalassa’ and ‘An Old Bone in the Bluebells’ in Spectral Realms 15 https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/spectral-realms/spectral-realms-no.-15

Ink, Sweat, and Tears

Helen Ivory at ‘Ink, Sweat, and Tears’ has published my poem ‘The Road to Witcombe Water’  https://inksweatandtears.co.uk/oliver-smith/

Heroic Fantasy Quarterly

https://www.heroicfantasyquarterly.com Heroic Fantasy Quarterley have published my poem ‘Wight, Lonely Weep Thou’

Tales from the Moonlit Path

The  Demented Mother’s Day Issue of ‘Tales from the Moonlit Path’ includes my poem ‘Hyngren’ after Beowulf and a reprint of ‘In Her Workshop’ from ‘Basilisk Soup & Other Fantasies’ https://talesmoonlitpath.com/

Curiouser Magazine

Curiouser Magazine is a bi-annual literary journal founded in September 2020 by Thomas Bailey. It was created out of a love for intriguing short fiction that explores – by fantastical means – what it is to be human. My poem ‘The Chemistry of Painted Ships’ appears in Curiouser Magazine https://curiousermag.com/

The Alchemy Spoon – The Spell Issue

My poem ‘Stinkhorn’ appears in The Alchemy Spoon https://www.alchemyspoon.org/ the poem based on the mushroom of the same name, also known as ‘witches’ eggs’ and is a bit influenced by the Onion Poem from the Exeter Book of Riddles.

Lovecraftiana

My poem ‘Gate of the Gods’ appears in the candlemas 2021 edition of Lovecraftiana Rhymed, strictly metered and narrative,    Also featuring stories, poetry and art by:Josef DesadeFrancis ErdmanGlynn Owen BarrassDavid A RileyM SternG LargeBryn ForteyMatt SpencerDean WirthSteven J. AlvarezMatthew WilsonMichael BalletiJames Toeken

Spectral Realms #14

My poem ‘A Ghostly Shade of Oil’ has been included by S.T. Joshi in Spectral Realms #13

Mirror Dance

My poem, ‘October’s End’, Has been published in Mirror Dance. http://www.mirrordancefantasy.com/2021/01/octobers-end.html The poem  lays out a landscape of history and memory. When I was eighteen, and an art student, I walked everywhere. Life had a rhythm of spending the days painting and the evenings in country pubs and that life persisted for perhaps three or...

Sylvia Magazine

My poem ‘Buckholt Wood’ appears in the on-line magazine ‘Sylvia’ at http://www.sylviamagazine.com/ This is about memories of walking from Brockworth to the Black Horse at Cranham through the woods in the rain. To the  south of Coopers Hill you pass the Buckholt and Buckholt wood.  The landscape has been sculpted by human inhabitants over thousands...