swan boats / the lime of leaves / the wood drips with pollen / the blue of an iris / a counterpoint to swallows / all i want is to be here / in the marsh water you are yourself
here all is alive, i am treasuring this outside time, whole mornings lost in the vibrance of the wood. but the magazine is calling me. we are in our last weeks of receiving work and the ancient issue is sure to be our most stunning yet.
i also felt it was a great moment to introduce you to our editorial team. all of which are featured in past issues of the winged moon. our first talent is Julian Mann who is a poet from the UK. his work has been featured twice in our past issues and we include a video of him reading ‘birches most tender’ published in our passage issue.
he has also answered a few questions for us
Why do you write? To express the thought or feeling that an idea or image—which I am naturally moved by—has given me. Attempting to go a bit deeper, I’ll paraphrase TS Eliot: Humankind cannot bear very much beauty, so we must devote ourselves to depicting it in other terms, to make sense of it. Can you tell us about your work and inspiration? My work is the practise of what I think poetry is: the chiselling of a form I find beautiful, out of a rough stone of images. I get a lot of inspiration from medieval literature—especially devotional works; and remains from those times in the landscape where I live, in England. What would you say to writers or artists interested in submitting their work to The Winged Moon? Whether they write or paint, I would encourage those who see themselves as artists to submit to The Winged Moon. It’s a magazine which I feel is quickly cementing a community for artists—a lot of whom have made social an effective media.
our ancient issue is out in print at the end of June and we still have space for some more poetry, art and photography.
What a beautiful news letter.
Beautiful!