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<i>The front line of the War on Poetry</i></p></p></p>Caratacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03756635616980386913noreply@blogger.comBlogger242125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35278365.post-89958738159375666672012-01-08T06:15:00.021+11:002012-03-04T09:19:54.241+11:00Sealed with Bright RunesI know a charm:<br />
it will save me if Malice<br />
cuts dark runes on a sapling’s roots<br />
with intent to harm;<br />
it turns the spell;<br />
the hater is harmed, not me.<br />
Ponderous with plots,<br />
the Wobble-Troll defeats<br />
herself into nowhere: airless Niflheim.<br />
Bright runes I know<br />
which trolls know not,<br />
nor might trolls ever mount to mind.<br />
—<i>Rígsþula</i><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.shitcreekreview.com/">http://www.shitcreekreview.com/</a></p></div>Caratacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03756635616980386913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35278365.post-60381242010173459002011-12-17T06:30:00.001+11:002011-12-17T06:32:15.907+11:00Pushcart NominationsWe have waited until The End of Days issue was published to announce these Shit Creek Review Pushcart nominations, though they were mailed off before the due date. Good luck to all concerned!<br />
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1. Philip Quinlan, 'The Pier at the End of the World'<br />
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<a href="http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue15/content/the-pier-at-the-end-of-the-world/">http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue15/content/the-pier-at-the-end-of-the-world/ </a><br />
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2. Richard Epstein, 'Apocalypse Now'<br />
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<a href="http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue15/content/apocalypse-now/">http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue15/content/apocalypse-now/ </a><br />
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3. Kona Macphee, 'Wild Raspberries'<br />
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<a href="http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue13/issue13index/wild-raspberries/">http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue13/issue13index/wild-raspberries/</a><br />
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4. Simon Williams, ' A Zombie's Take On Walnuts'<br />
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<a href="http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue15/content/a-zombies-take-on-walnuts/">http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue15/content/a-zombies-take-on-walnuts/ </a><br />
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5. Jonathan Kessler, 'The Octopus'<br />
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<a href="http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue14/issue14index/the-octopus/">http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue14/issue14index/the-octopus/ </a><br />
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6. Journal Entry by R. Nemo Hill<br />
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<a href="http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue13/issue13index/journal-entry/">http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue13/issue13index/journal-entry/</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.shitcreekreview.com/">http://www.shitcreekreview.com/</a></p></div>Caratacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03756635616980386913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35278365.post-43043333083324782532011-12-08T13:21:00.000+11:002011-12-08T13:21:04.555+11:00Shit to Hit Fan Soon!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikft76DiklB4qQdmTf8Myc_vUGAJ5x1vKEaVNGFVDy7W1ppyY2GQW9lL9VFmalJPZnjBfcRX1At9_ioC0aF7Probm77ORvo3SgbSfntPxZ5BIflEOIeleR2770SSKMa3yfhzXE/s1600/apocalypse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikft76DiklB4qQdmTf8Myc_vUGAJ5x1vKEaVNGFVDy7W1ppyY2GQW9lL9VFmalJPZnjBfcRX1At9_ioC0aF7Probm77ORvo3SgbSfntPxZ5BIflEOIeleR2770SSKMa3yfhzXE/s320/apocalypse.jpg" width="230" /></a></div><br />
The <em>Shit Creek Review</em> End of Days is nigh! All textual content has been selected by the Five Editors of the Apocalypse, & quill’d in by your End-of-Days Scribe, Paulus Stevensis; proofed moreover by the various authors, & corrected accordingly. Editorials & such are written & inscribed. Art-Angel Patricia Jonsensis has fabricated excellent & mimetic images. Arch-Art-Angel Zirilli is putting his final magic touches to <em>The Eschatological Look</em>. “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven ...” But very SOON. For I have seen <strong><em>It</em></strong> in a dream ...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.shitcreekreview.com/">http://www.shitcreekreview.com/</a></p></div>Caratacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03756635616980386913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35278365.post-90595921069975635542011-11-30T07:57:00.000+11:002011-11-30T07:57:56.375+11:00The Imminent End of Days<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFmOZNliI2Ao0JZobAURuFqRaKfCH2eZf-f4LWDWXJ4N925G51QWi1ZHolhKfgfO5bGg6YxnuQK3b7Bq0HDbfd488apzvxlliCUUrBvzE7kzssreIds-zE449RAW7R7x6Bs7in/s1600/durerbeast.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFmOZNliI2Ao0JZobAURuFqRaKfCH2eZf-f4LWDWXJ4N925G51QWi1ZHolhKfgfO5bGg6YxnuQK3b7Bq0HDbfd488apzvxlliCUUrBvzE7kzssreIds-zE449RAW7R7x6Bs7in/s320/durerbeast.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><br />
Dear Composers & Responders,<br />
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Angels flitting about in the rafters? Strange shafts of light, with pointing fingers on the end, piercing through the clouds? Seven-headed beasts slouching through the flower-beds? Children speaking in tongues? No beer left in the fridge? It must be the… End of Days!!!<br />
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Coming VERY soon in a <em>Shit Creek Review</em> near you!<br />
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Yours Apocalyptically &c.,<br />
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Paulus Stevensis,<br />
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End of Days Scribe<div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.shitcreekreview.com/">http://www.shitcreekreview.com/</a></p></div>Caratacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03756635616980386913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35278365.post-85558253207052078942011-08-05T22:09:00.000+10:002011-08-05T22:09:16.409+10:00Shit Creek Apocalypse Now<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkLRTXmkY7KFNYDyVh6CDXH5mAUZyfxZEuVWquiDeiWM62uxYGCoSU044DMpW2wbz6z2jcZ-VY59l7WlRiC4O1vWgDSlDIjXHquaWLphv3nEwdde7UrsoWyr3b5YMNTqRzjGCe/s1600/rapture.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkLRTXmkY7KFNYDyVh6CDXH5mAUZyfxZEuVWquiDeiWM62uxYGCoSU044DMpW2wbz6z2jcZ-VY59l7WlRiC4O1vWgDSlDIjXHquaWLphv3nEwdde7UrsoWyr3b5YMNTqRzjGCe/s320/rapture.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
The <span style="color: red;">End of Days</span> approaches and the shit is really starting to hit the fan now, as submissions open for the Apocalyptic 15th issue of the <i>Shit Creek Review</i>. Prepare for that freakish Creekish Rapture by carefully studying the Signs revealed here:<br />
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<a href="http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue14/issue14index/submissions/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue14...x/submissions/</a><br />
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Then follow those Revelations <i>exactly</i>.<br />
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It is written that submissions will close at midnight on October 2nd, or at the very moment when the world ends: whichever comes first. May the Creek be with you.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.shitcreekreview.com/">http://www.shitcreekreview.com/</a></p></div>Caratacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03756635616980386913noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35278365.post-88407329272694744492011-07-15T01:37:00.003+10:002011-07-15T01:51:50.093+10:00SCR 14By God, we're up the creek with Wendy Videlock!<br /><br /><a href="http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue14/">http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue14/</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.shitcreekreview.com/">http://www.shitcreekreview.com/</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35278365.post-57306356611298952772011-07-03T07:52:00.003+10:002011-07-08T22:03:44.192+10:00And the winner of the Rude Sonnet Contest is...Burt Myers!<br /><br />Burt will receive a copy of <a href="http://arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/grasshopper.html">Grasshopper: The Poetry of M. A. Griffiths</a>, and his winning sonnet will appear in Issue 14 of the Shit Creek Review.<br /><br />Congratulations to Burt, and thanks to all the contestants. I had fun reading the entries.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.shitcreekreview.com/">http://www.shitcreekreview.com/</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35278365.post-50978489304969558932011-05-26T09:52:00.001+10:002011-05-26T09:53:57.676+10:00Down at The Mermaid with The Flea<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZhQeVh8OLUk7jctT_SVloBSuc8j34LcXXiwq3Ee3u8xKTMsqGrk-zdcXHZ0XCIwzgNg_cCXojsYbZQ81m7mfmm9owGxNT8aexrNEJCzncrHQd5sC-baRCFkOi2K7DrwtIUyia/s1600/hogarth-gin-lane.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZhQeVh8OLUk7jctT_SVloBSuc8j34LcXXiwq3Ee3u8xKTMsqGrk-zdcXHZ0XCIwzgNg_cCXojsYbZQ81m7mfmm9owGxNT8aexrNEJCzncrHQd5sC-baRCFkOi2K7DrwtIUyia/s320/hogarth-gin-lane.jpg" width="279" /></a></div><br />
An evening down the Pub; & dire Aftermath: With John Whitworth, Ann Drysdale, Les Murray, Geoff Page, Peter Wyton, Anna Evans, Rick Mullin, Patricia Wallace Jones, Stephen Edgar, Ben Jonson, Timothy Murphy, Marly Youmans, Jan Iwaskiewicz, Nicola Daly, Susan Taylor, John Donne, Salli Shepherd &c. &c. Hangover remedies from John Whitworth & Alan Gould; Followed by spiritually-uplifting ejaculations from the Reverend George Herbert.<br />
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<a href="http://www.the-flea.com/Issue16/index.html" id="link_1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.the-flea.com/Issue16/index.html</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.shitcreekreview.com/">http://www.shitcreekreview.com/</a></p></div>Caratacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03756635616980386913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35278365.post-22614801656589497562011-04-28T11:41:00.002+10:002011-04-28T11:41:51.464+10:00Rude Sonnet ContestDetails here: <a href="http://shitcreek.auszine.com/contest.html">http://shitcreek.auszine.com/contest.html</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.shitcreekreview.com/">http://www.shitcreekreview.com/</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35278365.post-58842956139214499782011-01-31T15:30:00.004+11:002011-01-31T15:37:05.663+11:00Lucky 13Issue 13 - The Random Issue is now online:<br /><br /><a href="http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue13/">http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue13/</a><br /><br />This issue is dedicated to the late M. A. Griffiths (1947-2009) and includes several essays about her and her work. Be sure to read Julie Stoner's "Truth and Fiction in the Poetry of M. A. Griffiths" and listen to Ann Drysdale's wonderful readings.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.shitcreekreview.com/">http://www.shitcreekreview.com/</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35278365.post-10776365533221847462011-01-14T08:22:00.010+11:002011-02-05T04:33:30.553+11:00A Note to Our Contributors"SCR" is a handy abbreviation and easier to type than "The Shit Creek Review." It is not, however, the proper name of our journal. When listing publication credits or acknowledging previous publication, it's not only customary to spell out the name of the journal, but preferable for practical reasons.<br /><br />Suppose you're published in some other journal, and your bio mentions that your poems can also be found in "SCR." Hoping to find more of your work, the reader Googles "SCR" and finds a bunch of articles about silicon-controlled rectifiers. He then searches for "SCR Poetry" and sees results for both the Shit Creek Review and the South Carolina Review. That's confusing. It makes it harder to find your work, and it deprives us of the credit we deserve for publishing (we think) good stuff.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.shitcreekreview.com/">http://www.shitcreekreview.com/</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35278365.post-46840022274804910462010-11-25T01:08:00.002+11:002010-11-25T01:20:30.904+11:002010 Pushcart NominationsI've just mailed off the 2010 Pushcart nominations for the Shit Creek Review. The following were selected by Nigel Holt, Angela France, Paul Stevens and me.<br /><br /><a href="http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue11/lullaby/" target="_blank">Lullaby</a> by Charles Musser<br /><br /><a href="http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue11/white-anglo-saxon-protestant/" target="_blank">White Anglo-Saxon Protestant</a> by Quincy Lehr<br /><br /><a href="http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue12/issue12index/childhood-punishments/" target="_blank">Childhood Punishments</a> by Jee Leong Koh<br /><br /><a href="http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue12/issue12index/to-my-baudelaire/" target="_blank">To My Baudelaire</a> by Jennifer Reeser<br /><br /><a href="http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue12/issue12index/all-over-the-mirror/" target="_blank">All Over the Mirror</a> by R. Nemo Hill<br /><br /><a href="http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue12/issue12index/close-read-denise-duhamels-lawless-pantoum/" target="_blank">The Power of Lawlessness: A Close Reading of Denise Duhamel's "Lawless Pantoum"</a> by Marybeth Rua-Larsen<br /><br /><br />Think of the nominations as a gesture of thanks to our contributors. The chances are slim that any of them will be selected by the Pushcart judges, but we like to think the nominations themselves are meaningful, coming as they do from SCR, a webzine so elite and exclusive that only a privileged few know of its existence.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.shitcreekreview.com/">http://www.shitcreekreview.com/</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35278365.post-56120670821638004962010-08-15T15:15:00.004+10:002010-08-15T15:19:18.832+10:00The Shit Creek Review now has a bookstoreWe now have an online bookstore where you can browse and buy books by SCR contributors:<br /><br /><a href="http://shitcreek.auszine.com/bookstore.html">http://shitcreek.auszine.com/bookstore.html</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.shitcreekreview.com/">http://www.shitcreekreview.com/</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35278365.post-30008498882822277462010-07-31T09:11:00.015+10:002010-07-31T11:22:24.216+10:00Feedback on Issue 12The response to Issue 12 "A Fetish for Good Poetry" has almost all been very positive. A few people have raised interesting questions about our inclusion of several gay-themed poems in the issue. Aditi Machado even Twittered about it: "Why is gay sex 'weird'?"<br /><br />In her case, the confusion probably arose from Nigel's (obviously, I thought) tongue-in-cheek use of "weird" in his editorial. In this twittering age, irony is a risky thing.<br /><br />We also interpreted the theme fairly loosely, of necessity. Otherwise we would have had to eliminate much of the issue.<br /><br />Take Marybeth Rua-Larsen's "Aubade," for example. The speaker sounds more like an adventurous wife adding some spice to her marriage than a fetishist in the strictest sense of the word. And the speaker in Michael Ferris's "Those Hills" just happens to like a nice ass - that's hardly unusual. We accepted those poems because we liked them and they were <span>at least tangentially</span> relevant to the theme, though not necessarily right smack on the nose.<br /><br />Anyway, these questions raise some interesting questions themselves. As I see it, all of Jee's poems in the issue have a kinky element, independent of orientation. But just for the sake of argument, let's suppose that wasn't the case. Is including a sexy poem by a gay poet in a fetish-themed issue the same as literally equating "gay" with "fetishistic"? I don't think so. And underlying that question is another, trickier, question: inaccuracy aside, is there something insulting about such an equation? Only if you think fetishes are bad.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.shitcreekreview.com/">http://www.shitcreekreview.com/</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35278365.post-8166288150396801252010-07-27T22:04:00.001+10:002010-07-27T22:06:43.072+10:00Shit Creekers paddle on!Issue 12 of The Shit Creek Review is now online:<br /><br /><a href="http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue12/">Issue 12: A Fetish for Good Poetry</a><br /><br />Highlights include an interview with featured poet Jee Leong Koh; essays and reviews by Moira Egan, Quincy Lehr, Marybeth Rua-Larsen and Paul Stevens; poems by Mike Alexander, R. Nemo Hill and Jennifer Reeser; and artwork by Pat Jones, Maggie Mae-Hymn and Julian Mendez Perea.<br /><br />Thanks and kudos to all the contributors for their fine work.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.shitcreekreview.com/">http://www.shitcreekreview.com/</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35278365.post-19748126967270083762010-06-09T08:56:00.002+10:002010-06-09T08:56:37.948+10:00BUG-ery galore!Come to THE FLEA Circus and Bug Rave — a cast of trillions!<br />
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<a href="http://www.the-flea.com/">http://www.the-flea.com/</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.shitcreekreview.com/">http://www.shitcreekreview.com/</a></p></div>Caratacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03756635616980386913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35278365.post-40138273725042689902010-03-30T15:17:00.003+11:002010-03-30T15:20:58.421+11:00No Stilletos...Drat!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK0EP-XJJDfMJnv_O8SkaLpx6Q9CIuKuET_ZF2TKHcb1Ybic0XPxaDjalHdFWWDugyLnBuMK6mMV5XjgvWkZ9XX22TAsa_HlZNRE6hyvVcImNIfqmexTYFSRA5CEYAlBUhwqieQg/s1600/Fetishes.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 307px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK0EP-XJJDfMJnv_O8SkaLpx6Q9CIuKuET_ZF2TKHcb1Ybic0XPxaDjalHdFWWDugyLnBuMK6mMV5XjgvWkZ9XX22TAsa_HlZNRE6hyvVcImNIfqmexTYFSRA5CEYAlBUhwqieQg/s400/Fetishes.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454277019636087170" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.shitcreekreview.com/">http://www.shitcreekreview.com/</a></p></div>Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16494762359928682626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35278365.post-2844533873418695902010-03-11T07:40:00.002+11:002010-03-11T07:55:09.074+11:00Call for Art SubmissionsWe have a guest art editor for Issue #12: the fabulous <a target="_blank" href="http://kdkaboom.com/">Katy Maslow</a>!<br /><br />The theme for Issue #12 is "A Fetish for Good Poetry." See <a target="_blank" href="http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue11/submissions/">the submission guidelines</a> for details.<br /><br />Please be creative and don't send her tons of photos of stilettos.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.shitcreekreview.com/">http://www.shitcreekreview.com/</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35278365.post-39779771559278841982010-03-03T08:19:00.003+11:002010-03-03T08:29:40.227+11:00Visuals!I've just been admiring the newly redesigned <a href="http://soundzine.net">Soundzine</a>, which looks fantastic (congratulations, guys!), and it's made me all the more acutely aware that here at SCR, we are in dire need of a new art editor. If you're interested, please write to <a href="mailto:editor@shitcreekreview.com">editor@shitcreekreview.com</a>. We can't pay you, unfortunately, but you'd be showered with undying adulation and gratitude.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.shitcreekreview.com/">http://www.shitcreekreview.com/</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35278365.post-81891563666702776282010-02-23T07:58:00.005+11:002010-02-23T09:24:31.988+11:00Action Stations!The periscope has risen, the torpedoes fired. The explosion is about to hit your screens. Stand by for the latest war-filled issue of the Shit Creek Review.<br /><br /><a href="http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue11/">http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue11/</a><br /><br />This issue, number 11 in a continuing odyssey, sees another casualty with the sad departure of Pat Jones, our long-suffering art editor. Happy paddling, Pat! We'll miss you on the oars! And thanks to Paul for his long-suffering at the helm and for floating this baby in the first place.<br /><br />Issue 12 will be 'A Fetish for Good Poetry'<br /><br />'Ah thy people, thy children, thy chosen,<br />Marked cross from the womb and perverse!'<br />—from Swinburne’s “Dolores”<br /><br />Submissions - yes - you will submit! - to be with us by the end of May 2010.<br /><br />Paddle on!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.shitcreekreview.com/">http://www.shitcreekreview.com/</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35278365.post-32706496095905650622010-02-23T05:54:00.002+11:002010-02-23T05:54:22.318+11:00The Flea Footeth It FeatlyA Flea moreover which transmuteth that which is base imperfect Mettle into Gold, & whych projecteth many a Stone Philosophickal or Nugget Poetickal thereby; as witnesseth Philip Quinlan, Leo Yankevich, Joseph Salemi, Fr. Robert J. Pecotte, Geoff Page, Amit Majmudar, Rose Kelleher, Nigel Holt, Bill Greenwell, Alan Gould, Louis Gallo, Angela France, Nausheen Eusuf, Stephen Edgar, Ann Drysdale, Kevin Cutrer, Peter Coghill, C.E. Chaffin & Jared Carter.<br />
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<a href="http://www.the-flea.com/">http://www.the-flea.com/</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.shitcreekreview.com/">http://www.shitcreekreview.com/</a></p></div>Caratacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03756635616980386913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35278365.post-44578421835302971722010-02-06T02:28:00.003+11:002010-02-06T03:04:47.734+11:00Take me to your leaderThere's been quite a shakeup at SCR recently. Most of you probably already know that the esteemed, distinguished and eminently spongeworthy Paul Stevens has stepped down as editor. We're also going to have to muddle through somehow without Don Zirilli and Pat Jones, our erstwhile art editors. Wahhh!<br /><br />All is not lost, however. Nigel Holt has volunteered to take over as editor-in-chief. I've joined Angela France as a co-editor. What this means is that Nigel gets to do the scutwork of forwarding the submissions to Angela and me in anonymous batches for scoring (so you could say that our selection process is 2/3 blind). We also get to blame him if anything goes wrong.<br /><br />We've completed the selections for the February issue and will release it soon, or at least sometime this month. We're still looking for a new Art Director. In the meantime, Nigel's calling this issue "the Austerity issue" because the layout is a bit plainer than usual. Thanks to Peter Bloxsom, who built the site and has been very generous with his time and advice, the technical side of the transition has been relatively painless. So we're paddling on.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.shitcreekreview.com/">http://www.shitcreekreview.com/</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35278365.post-12774985896139700522010-02-01T16:39:00.000+11:002010-02-01T16:39:38.903+11:00Seen in Shit CreekIn SCR's 'Talking to the Dead' issue way back last August, Shit Creeker Michael Cantor had this abso deffo brillo sonnet:<br />
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'<a href="http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue10/death-watch/">Death Watch</a>'<br />
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What a little ripper, eh? But absolutely YONKS later the rest of the world finally catches up with Shit Creek as Associate Press releases this story in Feb 2010:<br />
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<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/world/felines-fatal-streak-oscar-the-cat-predicts-patients-time-to-die-20100201-n81a.html">Feline's fatal streak: Oscar the cat predicts patients' time to die</a><br />
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<i><b>Moral:</b></i> Up Shit Creek in a barbed-wire canoe without a paddle is a weird place to be, but it definitely puts you at the cutting edge in talking to the dead. Or something.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.shitcreekreview.com/">http://www.shitcreekreview.com/</a></p></div>Caratacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03756635616980386913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35278365.post-42254125217487844802009-12-27T22:40:00.000+11:002009-12-27T22:41:13.959+11:00YuleI was there, when men squatted on haunches <br />to chip flint and weave webs of belief<br />from seasons and circles of death and growth.<br />The stink of boar-grease stiffening my braid<br />and blue whorls whispering under my skin <br />offered hope that darkness could end.<br /><br />I put on homespun robes and tonsured my head<br />to walk the years when dogma stalked faith;<br />smoothing old ways and old faces to new shapes,<br />nudging builders to find safe spaces in stone arches.<br />Heedless of changed names for the turns of the year,<br />I watched the ploughman bury cakes for first cut,<br />crooned the song of seasons round to seed-time.<br /><br />I’ve paced the years’ life and I am still here to die <br />ever again. Hide me beneath plastic and tinsel, <br />dress me in red, fatten my cheeks, disinfect my story;<br />the scent of old circles clings to the shade of man.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.shitcreekreview.com/">http://www.shitcreekreview.com/</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35278365.post-4559797178546830342009-12-25T06:27:00.001+11:002009-12-25T06:29:13.627+11:00Peace to all the Paddlers<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEierHhgKb2mXdcdvVhhk3k-USoNYKMQK0jmoxi59owCi50Cj81XzT9A51deg8xOUSvzSAwfccYn5cGo7__1oYdVf9oSyPRLVnebf92qzyuz3HhTvlqk1abd1pFY0LnK0Z7NniFwvQ/s1600-h/Front+door.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 202px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEierHhgKb2mXdcdvVhhk3k-USoNYKMQK0jmoxi59owCi50Cj81XzT9A51deg8xOUSvzSAwfccYn5cGo7__1oYdVf9oSyPRLVnebf92qzyuz3HhTvlqk1abd1pFY0LnK0Z7NniFwvQ/s400/Front+door.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418886901452764594" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.shitcreekreview.com/">http://www.shitcreekreview.com/</a></p></div>Pathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16494762359928682626noreply@blogger.com1