Bone Orchard Poetry is variously active on discussion sites and uses social-media well. This is what writers refer to as bloody good innovative web-use. Editor Michael McAloran keeps the blogzine brief in description, ‘ An explorative blogzine of the Bleak/ the Surreal/ the Dark/ Absurd and the Experimental. ‘ There you have it encapsulated in a single minimal statement, a blogzine dedicated to new writing that focuses on the actual work of working writers.
I had been aware of Bone Orchard Poetry for a period of time. I decided to investigate it, and I submitted a single poem. Turns out a single poem isn’t enough. This is probably the best thing about Michael’s editorship of the Zine, I got an email back suggesting that a single poem submission doesn’t really tell the reader anything about the writer at all. He suggested I re-submit with a small grouping of poems. This I did. I sent a sequence based in a dream, actually based in the reality of a grief-experience. The poem initially had one extra verse, and there was a turn contained within that verse. I am still holding onto the original cycle in a folder, as I am very unsure of the turn issue in the poem.
Eamon Ceannt Park Cycle is based in a seven day walk through an unfamiliar/familiar park, in winter. This sequence does not always occur in waking reality, it is a dream-reality. Maybe the rest is nightmare. I am adding a link to the entire sequence here, and a brief excerpt from ECPC(#III).
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Eamon Ceannt Park Cycle III.
There is a man in the stone.
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The dew is playing fire at her feet,
wetting her legs.
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A legion of rooks guard his stone.
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© C. Murray
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Go read the site, I note that Kit Fryatt is a contributor , she will be familiar to Poethead readers for her poems which I published here and here. I added the Bone Orchard Poetry link to Irish Poetry Imprints on my blogroll.
Other poet-contributors to Bone Orchard Poetry are, PD Lyons ,Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Kevin Reid, Gillian Prew, John W. Sexton, Alyssa Nickerson, Craig Podmore, , Michelle Greenblatt, Heller Levinson, David Scott Pointer, Natasa Georgievska, Carolyn Srygley-Moore, Anthony Seidman, Aad de Gids and David McLean
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Chris Murray 
4 responses to “Bone Orchard Poetry, a blogzine for working poets and writers”
Love the line: “And the sky is close as goose down.” Beautiful.
I am wondering if Bone Orchard Poetry accepts international submissions, or if it is concerned solely with Irish poetry.
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The sky gets like that, and we have Brent Geese overhead in winter.
There is a submission email address on the left sidebar of the Bone Orchard site, follow what it says and SUBMIT.
+Thanks for your nice comment.
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Thank you for this, Chris…And in answer to the question, yes Bone Orchard Poetry is of course open to submissions from international poets…
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Thank you Michael. Its good to see ECPC printed, and not foldered.
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