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The Science Fiction Poetry Association have released their annual selection of Halloween Poetry. Liz Bennefeld, has once again like last year come up with a nice piece called: At Allantide. It's a reference to the old Cornish custom at Halloween, of keeping apples under your pillow, in order to dream of your future lover. It's vivid, gothic, and spooky, and resonates with quakerish imagination. There too, Karen Romanko (author of image above), has an eerie underwater poem of murder and reclamation. A link to Sue Burke's Gods in Galcia, a wonderful composite prose poem, can also be found. See extract below:


A bronze statue of the Spanish writer Ramón de Valle Inclán, recently erected by students of the local university where he had studied a century ago, sits on a bronze bench on a park hillside. With his trademark long beard, arms crossed, wearing spats, frail and thin, he watches the distant, lichen-encrusted granite spires of the magnificent cathedral in the city of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, northwestern Spain. "In this petrified city, the idea of Time flees," he wrote. "It seems not old but eternal. It has the solitude, the sadness and the force of a mountain."