Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday

Thanks for visiting fmpoetry in 2012, and hope you all have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday.

Great news from the Poetic Asides website, where De Jackson, who was featured on this site a couple of years ago, has been named one of their poet laureates for the year.

Marc Latham’s 242 Mirror Poems and Reflections is due to be featured on FrontRowLit this week, starting Tuesday December 25th.

And to end on a seasonal note, eMORFES has lots of great mirror images in the Winter Landscapes post (reblogged below).

New Poem has Guillotine Topic and Structure

Marc Latham’s latest Folding Mirror poem is the first of a new era: the first after the last 121 have been included in his new collection, which is nearing completion. After completing the Table of Contents chapter list Marc discovered he did in fact have 122 poems, so one old small one was included as an extra reflection, as he thought the caterpillar-butterfly metamorphosis extra one should be included. Anyway, more about that soon, and here’s the first FM poem of a new era. Out with the old, and in with the new; hey, that could be another FM poem…

P.S. Sorry if the subject matter of this poem is a bit grisly, and it should be read in a light-hearted (not headed) way. It is also shaped guillotinishly, so is presented from the left, rather than the usual centred.

Road to the Guillotine (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Basket Case

Sun
King
Madam
Guillotine
smiles sharp
blade gleams
steel promises
plummet scream

neck tingles, kiss cuts

closing thoughts
head spinning
losing mind
looking up
Goodbye
M’lord
Kiss
Sin

Guillotine (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Marc Latham’s central site is the Greenygrey (http://www.greenygrey.co.uk)

Folding Mirror Poet Sarah James Publishes Collection

fmpoetry is happy and proud to announce that Sarah James, who has created some nice FM poems (please search her name to see them on this site), has her poetry collection, Into The Yell, published by Foyle.

Congratulations and Good Luck to Sarah and everybody involved…and thanks for creating those FM poems.

And have a great weekend to everybody!