divadiane's review
4.0
My first pass through. All nice poems. Nothing’s really jumping out at me though...
On my second pass through I marked 20 poems that I liked enough to consider further. Now I'll divide them into groups of 5 and choose the best 2 from each group.
On my second pass through I marked 20 poems that I liked enough to consider further. Now I'll divide them into groups of 5 and choose the best 2 from each group.
cathepsut's review
4.0
More SF poetry. The Dwarf Stars Award is an annual award, presented by the Science Fiction Poetry Association to the author of the best horror, fantasy or science fiction poem of ten lines or fewer, published in the previous year.
Official website: https://www.sfpoetry.com/dwarfstars.html
Here are the poems I liked during my first read-through:
1. [The knife blade flutters] • Colleen Anderson 1
2. [hoping for the best …] • Johannes S. H. Bjerg 2
3. [she had broken] • Susan Burch 3
4. [Balancing Act] • Deborah L. Davitt with D. A. Xiaolin Spires & Gretchen Tessmer 4
5. [space station yoga] • John J. Dunphy 5
6. [Erwin Schroedinger] • Jean-Paul L. Garnier 7
7. [Feast of St. George—] • C.R. Harper 8
8. [Epitaph for John Carter] • Herb Kauderer 9
9. [Notes for the Next Letter Home] • Herb Kauderer 10
10. [pi day] • Deborah P Kolodji 11
11. [red shirts] • David C. Kopaska-Merkel 12
12. [Standing Up] • John C. Mannone 14
13. [Cold Weather Accessories for Imaginary Creatures] • Lorraine Schein 17
14. [the ghost wife] • Gloundan Smorpian 19
15. [seeing stars] • Christina Sng 20
16. [iron in the dunes] • Greer Woodward 22
17. [stargazing on Olympus Mons] • Greer Woodward 23
After my first read-through I narrowed the selection of favourite poems down further. To make the decision easier, I looked for poems that created interesting imagery in my mind, wanting me to spin the story forward...
My favourite three:
1. [seeing stars] • Christina Sng
2. [stargazing on Olympus Mons] • Greer Woodward
3. [hoping for the best …] • Johannes S. H. Bjerg
These slightly longer ones are my runner-ups:
1. [Notes for the Next Letter Home] • Herb Kauderer
2. [Balancing Act] • Deborah L. Davitt with D. A. Xiaolin Spires & Gretchen Tessmer
3. [Standing Up] • John C. Mannone
To be honest, if I read the whole anthology again in a few weeks, I would probably end up with a completely different set of poems!
Official website: https://www.sfpoetry.com/dwarfstars.html
Here are the poems I liked during my first read-through:
1. [The knife blade flutters] • Colleen Anderson 1
2. [hoping for the best …] • Johannes S. H. Bjerg 2
3. [she had broken] • Susan Burch 3
4. [Balancing Act] • Deborah L. Davitt with D. A. Xiaolin Spires & Gretchen Tessmer 4
5. [space station yoga] • John J. Dunphy 5
6. [Erwin Schroedinger] • Jean-Paul L. Garnier 7
7. [Feast of St. George—] • C.R. Harper 8
8. [Epitaph for John Carter] • Herb Kauderer 9
9. [Notes for the Next Letter Home] • Herb Kauderer 10
10. [pi day] • Deborah P Kolodji 11
11. [red shirts] • David C. Kopaska-Merkel 12
12. [Standing Up] • John C. Mannone 14
13. [Cold Weather Accessories for Imaginary Creatures] • Lorraine Schein 17
14. [the ghost wife] • Gloundan Smorpian 19
15. [seeing stars] • Christina Sng 20
16. [iron in the dunes] • Greer Woodward 22
17. [stargazing on Olympus Mons] • Greer Woodward 23
After my first read-through I narrowed the selection of favourite poems down further. To make the decision easier, I looked for poems that created interesting imagery in my mind, wanting me to spin the story forward...
My favourite three:
1. [seeing stars] • Christina Sng
2. [stargazing on Olympus Mons] • Greer Woodward
3. [hoping for the best …] • Johannes S. H. Bjerg
seeing stars with
my final breaths
hull breach
These slightly longer ones are my runner-ups:
1. [Notes for the Next Letter Home] • Herb Kauderer
2. [Balancing Act] • Deborah L. Davitt with D. A. Xiaolin Spires & Gretchen Tessmer
3. [Standing Up] • John C. Mannone
To be honest, if I read the whole anthology again in a few weeks, I would probably end up with a completely different set of poems!
More...