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Antiphon 12 and StepAway | Nothing to see here
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Poems can be found here. Nothing to see here. Poems and other things by Natalie Shaw. Antiphon 12 and StepAway. September 30, 2014. I am very happy to have a poem in Antiphon Issue 12, which you can read here. 8211; as well as another one here. In StepAway magazine. Currently thinking a bit about sonnets, more here soon…. Middot; December 16, 2014. Great poem in StepAway as well as the one in Antiphon, Natalie. I’m looking forward to that imminent collection! Middot; December 17, 2014. Your One Phone Call.
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On being rejected | Nothing to see here
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Poems can be found here. Nothing to see here. Poems and other things by Natalie Shaw. July 13, 2014. I started submitting stuff to poetry magazines this April. I started getting rejections about two weeks later. Coincidence? The first time was grim and terrible. It didn’t say anything mean – in fact, it was thoughtful and kind. Nonetheless, I immediately realised everything I had ever produced was awful and that I must stop writing instantly. The time after that, I only cried a little bit. That’s f...
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Little songs | Nothing to see here
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Poems can be found here. Nothing to see here. Poems and other things by Natalie Shaw. February 24, 2015. I went to a poetry masterclass given by the inestimable Don Share a few months ago, where I read out a poem for some feedback. He instantly asked how many lines the poem was, and when I said 14 he asked, ‘Is it a sonnet? I am not sure what makes a sonnet a sonnet. Once I saw one with 13 lines. Jo Bell has invented decimal sonnets – ten lines each. And what is this. Here are two sonnets from me. I like...
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On being rejected | Nothing to see here
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Poems can be found here. Nothing to see here. Poems and other things by Natalie Shaw. July 13, 2014. I started submitting stuff to poetry magazines this April. I started getting rejections about two weeks later. Coincidence? The first time was grim and terrible. It didn’t say anything mean – in fact, it was thoughtful and kind. Nonetheless, I immediately realised everything I had ever produced was awful and that I must stop writing instantly. The time after that, I only cried a little bit. That’s f...
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June | 2015 | Nothing to see here
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Poems can be found here. Nothing to see here. Poems and other things by Natalie Shaw. June 20, 2015. This poem is composed from different things people said about Fenton House garden. Last Saturday. There will be more coming soon as lots of the garden’s visitors stopped and talked to me. It was wonderful to be able to meet and speak to so many interesting people. I’ll be back as the poet in residence for Apple Day (which is actually the weekend of October 3/4th). Resulting angles and perspectives. On Ant...
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July | 2014 | Nothing to see here
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Poems can be found here. Nothing to see here. Poems and other things by Natalie Shaw. July 23, 2014. Here’s the other poem that was commended in the Ware competition. Although I have now messed around with it a bit, because it’s impossible to type something out without messing around with it a bit. The third time round you’d think I’d know what I. Was doing. Things went wrong though and the milk. Got stuck: every time I tried I’d cry. The milk came out like glue and made me ill. July 13, 2014. I have als...
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Antiphon 12 and StepAway | Nothing to see here
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Poems can be found here. Nothing to see here. Poems and other things by Natalie Shaw. Antiphon 12 and StepAway. September 30, 2014. I am very happy to have a poem in Antiphon Issue 12, which you can read here. 8211; as well as another one here. In StepAway magazine. Currently thinking a bit about sonnets, more here soon…. Middot; December 16, 2014. Great poem in StepAway as well as the one in Antiphon, Natalie. I’m looking forward to that imminent collection! Middot; December 17, 2014. Your One Phone Call.
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August | 2014 | Nothing to see here
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Poems can be found here. Nothing to see here. Poems and other things by Natalie Shaw. August 26, 2014. I took my 1992 copy of. On holiday with me this summer. My 17-year-old self really hated Larkin I’ve written ‘Larkin sold out before he started’ above the final poem, and someone (me? Seems to have stabbed through the whole book with a pair of scissors. ‘Arrogance! That homogenous bunch of creatures that we are that really troubled me). Perhaps I was half right. Now that I am older and wiser, or per...
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Unearthed | Nothing to see here
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Poems can be found here. Nothing to see here. Poems and other things by Natalie Shaw. June 25, 2014. I recently had two poems commended in the Ware Open Poetry Prize (I may have mentioned this already one or two times). Both sonnets will appear in their anthology coming out in July, but here is one of them in the mean time (and here. Is a poem by the judge, Roddy Lumsden). This small box is mine, I know it well. I know its internal dimensions, and when. And how I am allowed to leave. I smell. You are com...