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Publication Notice: Bonnie’s Crew

April 10, 2019 / writersamr / 0 Comments

I have two pieces out in the April issue of Bonnie’s crew! The first (page 30) is a creative non-fiction piece called The News, which I have been trying to place for possibly a couple of years now. It’s about trying to fit the anxiety of going for scans in with everyday life, and how easily that anxiety can be triggered.

The poem is called Grammar Error (page 37) and it’s a real short one, written after my hsyterectomy.

You can read them both here:

https://bonnieandcrew.wordpress.com/2019/04/09/bonnies-crew-2-april-2019/

Hope you like them!

Publication Notice – “Twitch”

March 22, 2019 / writersamr / 0 Comments

My poem Twitch is out today in Thimble Literary Magazine! I wrote it a little after my hysterectomy in October. You can read it here, along with some other great poems (I particularly like “Cancer Lyric V”):

https://www.thimblelitmag.com/2019/03/16/twitch/

March 1, 2019 / writersamr / 0 Comments

Publication Notice

February 11, 2019 / writersamr / 0 Comments

I’ve had a poem published in Amaryllis Poetry today! It’s called Seventy-nine and you can read it here.

Brightside Moths

January 31, 2019 / writersamr / 0 Comments

I feel old
and torn apart
tired and torn apart
torn and tired apart

I tried living
alongside moths
brightside moths

they tell me to
always look on
the bright side too

but the chipper
clip of their wings
gets in my face
they always fly
towards the face

I was the patient
making the anaesthetists
laugh before we went
into the operating theatre
and I still am

but I have a library full
of memories now
and all the books
have been checked out
by me

I open one
and a brightside moth
lands on the middle pages

I slam it shut
the wings stop flapping
there is still no peace

Publication Announcement – The Bitchin’ Kitsch

January 3, 2019 / writersamr / 0 Comments

I have two poems in the new issue of The BItchin’ Kitsch – “Gaps” and “Therapy Trees”. Check them out here!

Publication Announcement – Visual Verse

October 29, 2018 / writersamr / 0 Comments

My poem “First, Decide” has been published in Visual Verse! This online magazine provides a piece of artwork every month and invites writers to send in work based on that art. It’s a cool way to see how differently people interpret something and get creative with it. You can see my poem here: https://visualverse.org/submissions/first-decide/

The Sun

October 20, 2018 / writersamr / 0 Comments

Publication Notice – Vita Brevis and IO Literary Journal

October 15, 2018 / writersamr / 0 Comments

Two of my poems found new homes today!

Read “Dew” at Vita Brevis: https://vitabrevisliterature.com/2018/10/15/dew-a-poem-by-sam-rose/

And “The Merging” at IO Literary Journal: https://www.ioliteraryjournal.com/refraction_sam_rose.html

You may have seen “Dew” before on my blog, but “The Merging is new and shiny. Both of them are a departure from my usual style – “Dew” because of the tone, while I had a lot of fun playing with space and formatting with “The Merging”. Enjoy!