Spectral Realms Number 6: Winter 2017

This sixth issue of the acclaimed Hippocampus Press journal of weird poetry features distinctive poems by John Shirley, W. H. Pugmire, Wade German, Ann K. Schwader, and many other leading contemporary poets. The legendary Richard L. Tierney contributes two powerful poems, and poets ranging from Kyla Lee Ward to Darrell Schweitzer to Jessica Amanda Salmonson contribute verses of pungency and distinction. Younger poets such as K. A. Opperman, Ashley Dioses, Nathaniel Reed, Liam Garriock, and Christina Sng demonstrate why they will be the heralded poets of their generation. Adam Bolivar offers another of his evocative horror ballads, and Jason V Brock presents a genial homage to the distinctive prose-poetry of Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.

Leigh Blackmore has written a detailed study of the poetry of underrated British writer Walter de la Mare. J.-M. Rajala has written a long and penetrating review of David E. Schultz's landmark edition of H. P. Lovecraft's Fungi from Yuggoth, while Michael J. Abolafia contributes a review of an issue of the Science Fiction Poetry Association's online journal devoted to weird poetry.

In all, Spectral Realms #6 offers a rich feast for the growing legions of devotees of weird poetry.