This particular poem is part of a collection I’ve been working on
inspired by the events that occurred at the Villa Diodati two hundred years ago
in the "year without a summer” of 1816.
It is not a retelling of what happened there, but rather it is a piece
inspired by the darkness that was born within its benighted walls, borne along
by my ghost-gloomed imagination and macabre thoughts that I have carried with me
over the last year.
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
HWA's Poetry Showcase Volume III
I am unnaturally excited to announce that my poem “She Walks in
Moonlight” has been published in HWA’s Poetry Showcase Volume III and is
now available on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle/electronic format. It is a great honor for me to be included
amongst such great poets as Bruce Boston, Corrine De Winter, Alessandro
Manzetti, and many others. Link to the anthology below.
Even though I am
still fascinated and rather obsessed with what happened during that haunted summer, I must say that
I am somewhat looking forward to finishing this collection and moving on to
other projects. After a year of
reading/writing nothing but Gothic ghost stories and disturbing poetry, which
included several midnight rereadings of Coleridge’s Christabel and The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner, being distressingly entranced in an almost perpetual mental
state of shadowy thoughts, and having some of the most disturbing (and
beautiful) nightmares that I’ve ever had, I dare say it’s not long before the
incurable effects of melancholy and possibly even madness start to set in.
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