Back a while ago, Nick Flynn picked a poem of mine as the winner of the Gigantic Sequins contest. Part of the prize was having time under their spotlight. Mine is here.

As it says above. It’s here now. I love how beautiful this magazine is & am so pleased to be there.

(This is part of the big 1873 project.)

Adrian Slatcher has this to say about the poems of mine in Dear World & Everyone In It: “[while] Éireann Lorsung may seem an untypical poet to begin with; coming out of America-Nottingham; feminist in perspective, but imaginative in style, her opening poem “The Book of Splendor” is a beautiful choice.” Well shucks. Although the odd opposition (accidental?) of my feminism and my imagination—which to me are in fact coextensive—is bemusing, to say the least. Thanks, Adrian, for your words, and for liking my poem. (It’s “The book of splendor“, if you’re wondering.)

Another review of the whole book is here.

The magazine kindred will publish four of my poems in its March 2013 issue:  “A darkness you can’t name, like once when you were very small, in a movie theater, you fell asleep and when you woke up the movie was over and your parents were there, very quiet, and you could hear the sound of rain on the roof”, “Something brief”, “Minor collection”, and “Apricot orchard”.