Clarion Issue 16 Update
The poem I got into BU’s Clarion magazine recently is now up on their website: www.bu.edu/clarion/16/owen-lucas.htm
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poetry, fiction and translation
December 20, 2013
Monkey Kettle Issue 40
A gloomy English nature poem I wrote in May got into the decidedly lighthearted English magazine Monkey Kettle. Issue 40 (!) is out now and it’s two pound fifty. You can buy a four pack of Ginster’s pasties from Tesco, or you can be a real mensch and give your money to a ramshackle-looking poetry mag from Milton Keynes. Here’s the online shop: monkeykettle.co.uk/shop. The picture on the front has a chimpanzee and a cow. Come on.
October 27, 2013
Whisperings Vol. 2 Issue 3
Over the past six months, Mountain Tales Press has been serialising Afterworks, a set of my ekphrasis poems, in their publication Whisperings. The latest issue features the final six poems in the sequence, and is available on Magcloud in print or digital editions.
October 8, 2013
Poets & Writers
My application for a listing with Poets & Writers has finally been approved. Visit and check it out:
October 5, 2013
Clarion Issue 16
AGNI is the literary magazine that usually springs to mind when you think of Boston University, but it’s not the only one. Clarion is a small print journal that has been produced by the BU Literary Society since 1999. Issue 16 is now in print and features “275”, a poem that I’m quite proud of. Its inspiration was a gigantic Alphonse Mucha painting entitled “Plamínek naděje”, meaning “Flame of Hope”, depicting the last moments of an exiled Bohemian church father as he looks out across the Baltic sea. See here for subscriptions (currently the only way to purchase the magazine). That’s all for now!
October 2, 2013
A Clean, Well Lighted Place Vol. 5
A poem I wrote for the Adroit Journal summer workshop is being published in A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. It’s about a guy who waits out a huge storm on an island, taking shelter in an old shack. Any magazine named after a Hemingway short story is alright with me. Pick it up in print or digital here.
Update: the issue is now also available on Amazon.
September 18, 2013
Lost in Thought Issue 5
When Robert Vaughan at Lost in Thought got in contact with my earlier this year and asked me to write something for the new issue, I’d already had my greedy eyes on the magazine for some time. Simply put, it’s one of the most beautifully designed and thoughtfully curated American literary magazines I’ve come across, a fact that is all the more remarkable given that its staff is comprised of just two guys. Anyway, their approach is quite novel: they research artwork for the upcoming issue, and then send images to writers whom they feel the images would suit. Once they have all the writing and artwork they experiment with visuals and text in some fresh, charming ways. The poem I wrote for them is a recent favourite, about a Metro-North conductor. Pick up the issue in print or digital versions here.
September 13, 2013
The Adroit Journal
A hoard of poems from the Adroit summer workshop are now online, including a sonnet I wrote about an awkward encounter between two old college pals. Visit adroit.co.nr, click “More” and “Summer Workshop” and you can read them all.
September 7, 2013
The Gap-Toothed Madness Issue 3
The latest issue of The Gap-Toothed Madness just hit the shelves, and it contains another of my ekphrasis poems, this one based on a blue period Picasso from 1901, La chambre bleu. Visit the GTM online store to pick up a copy.
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