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10:36 am by D Kai Wilson, editor in Uncategorized
Digitalis Obscura - medicine for the writers heart is designed to support, inspire and enlighten writers of all kinds.
As a secondary consideration, we’re also here to support new writers - and ‘obscure’ or off the beaten path writing.
It will provide medicine for your writers heart - and soul.
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Check out our Guidelines and Editorial calendar - we're looking for editors! Email me at editor at digitalisobscura.com for more information.Oldies, but Goodies!
Ok guys and gals - got a question for you.
You’ve got seven sentences to set the scene before your editor’s eyes glaze over and roll back in his head. He’s looking for the next big thing.
What would you write?
If you decide to take part, post that we’re keeping track of it [...]
Review – Blood
Blood, by Nigel McLoughlin is beyond words. Moving, deeply riveting, and most of all standing as both a marker (for lessons learned, in discussion of terrorism through poetry) and inspiration.
Boldly mixing Irish myth, and the rich imagery we associate with all traditions of Irish writing, with a more modern view of terrorism, [...]
night slams down a sky
as lid on this sinful kettle,
burning us here
in this hell we live in
seething in our own stink,
this sweaty nothingness
we live in
sin
David McLean was born in Wales in 1960 though he’s lived in Sweden since 1987. He has been submitting seriously for about a year and, as of the end of October [...]
R–U–OK?
Yeah–Yeah
I txt back
before adding another dozen lines to my
essay. There’s a scrap of paper beside me
I’m scrawling lines of a poem that are singing
to me, from the cheap seats, insidious, in my head.
As an afterthought, I realize, I need to tell him something else.
So, I send another
I–haven’t–slept–4–days
Frenzied, exhilarated, deeply awkward.
I’m falling. [...]
It was midday, but feeling tired and somewhat upset about the condition of the world, I was reading in my bedroom when, for some reason, I looked out the window and saw a large red kite drifting by. Not so strange in itself, but, instead of various ribbons dangling from the kite’s tail, there [...]
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