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Exclusive Interview: “One Hand Screaming: 20 Haunting Years” Author Mark Leslie

 

Twenty years ago, horror author Mark Leslie assembled a collection of his stories and poems he called One Hand Screaming because, as he explains in the following email interview, he wanted, “…an actual book with my name on it.”

Well, now Leslie apparently wants an updated and expanded book with his name on it because he’s releasing One Hand Screaming: 20 Haunting Years (hardcover, paperback, Kindle), which not only adds new stories and poems, but some behind-the-scenes info as well.

In the following email interview, Leslie discusses both the original version of Screaming and this new edition, as well as the alcoholic beverage that pairs well with this book.

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Exclusive Interview: “Hold Everything” Author Dobby Gibson

 

In the following email interview, poet Dobby Gibson talks about his fifth collection of poems, Hold Everything (paperback, Kindle), including how one was inspired by a famous club where royalty used to appear.

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Exclusive Interview: “Go Figure” Author Rae Armantrout

 

At first, it might seem odd, or just cheeky, that Rae Armantrout has named her new poetry collection Go Figure (hardcover, paperback, Kindle).

But when you get to the point in the following email interview where she explains how she wrote these poems after she started hanging out with some 7-year-old girls…

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Exclusive Interview: “The Blue Mimes: Poems” Author Sara Daniele Rivera

 

Back in the day, when I wrote poems, it was always as a catharsis, a way of dealing with something.

Which is what drew me to The Blue Mimes (paperback, Kindle), the new poetry collection by Sara Daniele Rivera, in which she’s dealing with something as well.

In the following email interview, Rivera discusses that something, as well as what influenced how she wrote them.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Heartbeat Of The Universe” Editor Emily Hockaday

 

For more than 20 years, senior managing editor Emily Hockaday has overseen the poetry sections of the iconic science fiction and fantasy magazines Analog Science Fiction And Fact and Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine.

Well, now she has a new (ish) role: editing the new anthology The Heartbeat Of The Universe: Poems From Asimov’s Science Fiction And Analog Science Fiction And Fact 2012–2022 (paperback, Kindle).

In the following email interview, Hockaday discusses how she decided which of the poems published on her watch to include (and which not to include), what forms they take, and why none of them start with the line, “Oh 3PO, oh 3PO, wherefore art though, 3PO?”

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Exclusive Interview: “Ædnan: An Epic” Author Linnea Axelsson

 

For people who don’t regularly read poetry, the idea of an epic poem conjures images of, well, epic stories told in verse: Beowulf, The Illiad, The Odyssey.

But Linnea Axelsson’s epic poem Ædnan: An Epic (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) has no monsters, no warriors, nothing from the fantasy realm.

Instead, it’s a real world story with political and social ramifications that’s as relevant now as it was when it came out in her native Sweden in 2018.

With a new English language translation bringing this book to the U.S. for the first time, I was pleased to send Axelsson some questions via email for the following interview.

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Exclusive Interview: “Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy And Science Fiction: Volume One” Editor Stephen Kotowych

 

When we think about the best science fiction and fantasy, some people only think of writers from the U.S., Britain, and Japan. But despite what Disney insists, it’s a big world out there, and good writers come from all four corners of the globe.

And yes, that includes Canada.

Which brings me to the following interview with Stephen Kotowych, the editor of the new anthology Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy And Science Fiction: Volume One (paperback, Kindle), in which he explains why he assembled this collection, what the rules were, and his plans for Volume Two, Volume Three…

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Exclusive Interview: “The Infinite Loop” Author Oneyda González

 

With The Infinite Loop (paperback), Cuban poet Oneyda González is presenting her poems in English translation for the first time. In the following email interview, González discusses what inspired and influenced these poems and this collection.

(Oh, and if you’d prefer to read this in González’s native Spanish, click here.)

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Exclusive Interview: “Phone Ringing In A Dark House” Author Rolly Kent

Twenty-five years after releasing Spirit, Hurry, author Rolly Kent has come back to writing poetry with Phone Ringing In A Dark House (paperback). In the following email interview, Kent talks about this new collection, what influenced these poems, and why he started writing poems again after a certain someone was elected president.

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