PETER DEVONALD - POETRY AND LATEST NEWS
Latest News October 2024
Awards
· 2024 Winter Has a Wish For You second Prize in the Shelley Memorial Project Poetry competition
We Need To Talk About Summer also one of 8 poems highly commended & included in the anthology.
Winners event ”A Celebration of Poetry" on Saturday 12th October in St Mary's Church Horsham.
https://www.shelleymemorialproject.co.uk/competition-2024
· 2024 Let the River Run Free shortlisted Oxford Canal Festival Poetry Competition
https://www.oxfordcanalheritage.org/oxford-canal-festival-2024
· 2024 The Roses of Heliogabalus - finalist in the Tickled Pink ekphrastic contest: https://www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrastic-review/tickled-pink-contest-winning-poem-and-finalist-works
Anthologies / Publications
· 2024 Green and Pleasant Land, Algorithms Of Rage – Culture Matters https://www.culturematters.org.uk/index.php/arts/poetry/item/4640-green-and-pleasant-land-and-algorithms-of-rage
· 4 Winter Delights - Forget Me Not Press Part 2: Divine. September publication.
https://forgetmenotpress.net/ - swansong of this wonderful inspirational poetry journal, really will be very much missed. Been wonderful to be on this journey – highly recommended.
https://forgetmenotpress.net/issue-7
· 2024 Osmosis - Molecules Unlimited Anthology #1 https://stephenpaulwren.wixsite.com/luke12poetry/post/release-of-1st-molecules-unlimited-anthology?fbclid=IwY2xjawE4GhtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHSLuSzRuyuWVs7b877O2xpy0vjmvr12T7lRx9E8O8LIkyTZBLkbcvcLYcw_aem_TEN6Zm19roT6nLB3mN7dxw
· 2024 Goldfinches Sing, Elegy MMXXIV, Is this a poem? Dirigible Balloon: October 3rd – to mark National Poetry Day - https://dirigibleballoon.org/writer/peterdevonald
· 2024 An Ending - Delighted to appear in Dreich 100 D - the final issue of this wonderful literary journal. End of an era. Edited by Jack Caradoc. https://hybriddreich.co.uk/dreich-100th/
· 2024 Delighted to be selected for the MPF24 anthology, edited by M. Panesh 2024
· 2024 Monthly Poetry Corner in Manchester Post and Stockport Post.
https://communitynewsgm.co.uk/stockport-post-newspapers/
· 2024 Clown Prince, No Exit and Divorce to be published by Ranger Magazine out now.
The print issue should be out early next year. https://www.rangermagazine.net/issue6
· 2024 Sky Dreams of Dragons, If We Dragons –published in anthology Dragon Dreams: by Storm Dragon Publishing (SDP), edited by irrepressible marvellous amazing Draco Amethystus.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0D9G5XP3B?notRedirectToSDP=1&ref_=dbs_mng_calw_0&storeType=ebooks
COMING SOON
· 2024 Mesmerising Biophony Loft Books September – very excited to see this wonderful literary magazine, edited by very excellent Claire Cronin. https://loftbooks.square.site/
· Manic Street Preacher 4Ever Cicada Song Press edited by Mona Mehas.
https://www.cicadasongpress.com/
· 2024 Red Earth Returning -Last Light: Apocalypse Poetry Anthology - from The Broken Spine
· 2024 Parasite Hearth & Coffin V4 “Gossip Horror”
· 2024 The Magical Portal and Vinyl Sings a Song For You feature in the 'Poetic Maps' anthology as part of the Southwark Libraries Festival of Words week.
· 2024 Interview coming soon
· 2024 Tiny Butterfly Effect – SkySurfing, a children’s poetry anthology. Huge thanks to the wonderful Editor Jonathan Humble – who has created the amazing children’s poetry space at Dirigible Balloon – December release in bookshops. Profits go to Juvenile Arthritis Research.
https://yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Political-Cartoonist-And-Former-Childrens-Laureate-Chris-Riddell-OBE-Joins-The-C-?fbclid=IwY2xjawEpRGtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZXQyLHg-lV9Fos--gNbm5uqwQukQT-kCmTaWrVaGaxmJGyrMlKh78YwCA_aem_vciW5uItIGeRIQiQzgN1uA