Thursday, March 16, 2006
SciFi poetry is something ...
... I can't say I'm terribly familiar with, but I'm reading a collection that I believe falls into that category: Mike Allen's Strange Wisdoms of the Dead. In the meantime, Laurie Mason has sent me a link to an interview with Allen posted in October at The Mumpsimus: A conversation with Mike Allen .
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Isn't this something.
ReplyDeleteI'm surfing and reading through the links, and am suddenly reminded of Warren C. Norwood, the Sci-Fi/Fantasy writer, who died last year: SFWA: Warren Norwood (1945-2005). So I'm off on a tangent I'll share.
I'm not a big reader of anything but poetry, but have read plenty of Stanislaw Lem, and for some reason A Canticle for Leibowicz, thoroughly enjoying both. Never, though, have I read any sci-fi by our on-line poet friend Warren Norwood most famous for his sci-fi novels.
Just yesterday, though, I linked from here to a drama I wrote in 2002, called "PoemMania". In it, is a poem by Warren, Sweet Night Alive.
One reason I should order and read some of his novels, is that I remember him saying that he had included some of his poetry in the books, which must mean excellent sci-fi in poetry for sure.
When he died, condolences came to the IBPC announcement threads from around the web. Here's the first example I bumped into searching tonight, The Critical Poet: Warren Norwood has died.
Click here for another of Warren's poems: 2002 IBPC winning poems for April. Scroll into the Honorable Mentions.