Category: Poetry

“A startlingly good book of poetry for teens…a gem!”

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Featured in Slider, Poetry, Writing and Editing
May 2, 2019
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A great review of my collection of fantastical poetry, I Tumble Through the Diamond Dust, illustrated by my niece, Wendi Nordell, is now online, after previously appearing only in print in Resource Links, which reviews books for school libraries. Exerpts… “In April 2016, Saskatchewan’s then–poet laureate Gerald Hill sent members of the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild …

Nice review of I Tumble Through the Diamond Dust in Star*Line

By Edward Willett in Books, Poetry, Writing and Editing
March 10, 2019
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A nice review of I Tumble Through the Diamond Dust, my collection of science fiction and fantasy poetry, written by Lisa Timpf, appeared recently in Star*Line, the journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. I Tumble Through the Diamond Dust grew out of the 2016 Poetry Month challenge by then-Saskatchewan Poet Laureate Gerald Hill. Each …

Five-star review for I Tumble Through the Diamond Dust

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Poetry
July 19, 2018
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Jim Bennett, who reviews poetry for KBR (The Kindle Book Review) and is himself a poet, liked I Tumble Through the Diamond Dust rather a lot, giving it five out of five stars: “Willett writes speculative fiction, so these poems are unusual. They are also a lot of fun. Willett’s illustrator, Wendi Nordell, has added to …

Audiobook of I Tumble Through the Diamond Dust now available!

By Edward Willett in Audiobooks, Blog, Books, Poetry, Writing and Editing
June 23, 2018
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The audiobook of my collection of science fiction and fantasy poetry, I Tumble Through the Diamond Dust, which I narrated myself, is now available through Audible and iTunes. Of course, when you buy the audiobook, you don’t get the wonderful illustrations by my niece, Wendi Nordell (except for a small portion of the cover art), …

Complete cover for my poetry collection I Tumble Through the Diamond Dust

By Edward Willett in Books, Poetry, Writing and Editing
April 5, 2018
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Here’s the complete cover of my upcoming poetry collection, I Tumble Through the Diamond Dust, illustrated by Alberta artist Wendi Nordell (who happens to be my niece). The back copy reads: Within these pages lie twenty-one poems…and twenty-one worlds: worlds in the farthest reaches of space, worlds steeped in myth and legend, worlds that never …

A review of Line Dance. Apparently I have a sense of humour. Who knew?

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Poetry
November 6, 2016
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Here’s the first review I’ve seen of Line Dance, the collection of poems that resulted from…well, I’ll let the reviewer explain, because I’m tired of typing various versions of this: Each weekday during Poetry Month in April, Hill [Poet Laureate Gerald Hill] e-mailed SK Writers’ Guild members a pair of first lines he’d selected from SK …

Hear me read a Hallowe’eny poem

By Edward Willett in Blog, Poetry, Writing and Editing
October 20, 2016
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Looking for something both poetic and Hallowe’eny? (And who isn’t?) The Science Fiction Poetry Association has a page of audio files of SFPA members reading their Hallowe’en-related poems–and it includes a file of me reading “He Really Should Have Written,” one of the poems I wrote for Poet Laureate Gerald Hill’s “First Lines” project back …

In honour of National Poetry Month 2: Within this box of glowing white…

By Edward Willett in Blog, Poetry
April 1, 2014
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Within this box of glowing white I type, in pixels black, These words. I try to get them right, Yet still I feel they lack A certain something. Yeats I’m not Nor am I Keats or Austen. My forte, I would say, is plot: This scansion is exhausten’. And so, although ’tis poetry This month …

In honour of National Poetry Month 1: I Tweet, therefore I rhyme

By Edward Willett in Blog, Poetry
April 1, 2014
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I TWEET, THEREFORE I RHYME Being a Twitterpoem cycle in honour of National Poetry Month 2014, with each stanza set off with pretentious Roman numerals, just because it’s more poetic that way By Edward Willett I In characters, 140 sum, I must Tweet out my heart, So that, for National Poetry Month, I will have …

Belated Saturday Special from the Vaults: Sonnet Sonnet

By Edward Willett in Blog, Poetry
January 3, 2012
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Delayed once more by festive cheer, I make my first post of the year! *** How serious are you, my poet friend, About the craft to which your heart aspires? Do your words borrow pain, and seek to lend Unto the world the vision it requires? Do you object to light verse as a waste …