PETER DEVONALD
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Multi-award-winning screenplays, TV series, and a novel.
Harsh Truths For Poets
One element of poetry that continues to frustrate is the level of poems being “rejected” from magazines, zines, journals, and comps. A very famous poet recently said she has a 20% success rate with submissions. Another highly successful poet said that he has never gotten in with any of his submissions that involve @submittable: “3 years and not a single poetry acceptance on that platform so far!”.
So do keep all this in mind if you are submitting work. It can be so frustrating and galling, but perspective reveals so much. Those who seem to be doing incredibly well are probably just entering far more places, and perhaps not the very best quality places. The Poetry Society competition has 18,000 entries (and I bet even more this year) – which leaves a heck of a lot of unhappy poets. Keep writing and the faith.
Fantastic link with upcoming poetry opportunities:
So grateful to Angela Carr for all her work and efforts in compiling this essential list for poets.
Latest News
Very delighted to be in these wonderful places.
Greatly honoured to be nominated for The Forward Prize For Best Single Poem.
Nominated twice for Best Of The Net award including Lexicon Limits nominated by Metachrosis: 'Best of Net Anthology Prize’ Sundress Press
https://metachrosislitmag.co.uk/metachrosis-issue-1/
The Wonder - published in The Shallot Volume 2 Issue 2 – September
Autumn Veil - The Purposeful Mayo Journal Issue 3.2 - August
https://www.thepurposefulmayo.com/issue-3-2?fbclid=IwAR2mftrzcUkdurQVA0TdhH0SDx-2vVB_q7geruo52Y-A_wpquB__M9KhFVA
The Existential Duck published by The Wombwell Rainbow
https://thewombwellrainbow.com/2023/08/14/created-responses-to-this-day-peter-devonaid-responds-to-an-image-from-my-this-day-images-i-would-love-to-feature-your-responses-too/?fbclid=IwAR2ccQg4NBntnSepv2codSEOBNYvNGZdUkDG4tKT0UUDFmNSPVfmlO4nRpY
Tomorrow is a Sparrowhawk in Flight and Tiny Butterfly Effect - Dirigible Balloon: https://dirigibleballoon.org/writer/peterdevonald
Embrace Vibrant Summer was published in the Morecambe Poetry Festival Anthology book
Coming soon:
Humanity Is An Ocean, Waiting to be published on September 14th in the next issue of Borderless Journal: https://borderlessjournal.com/poetry/
Secret Truths, Whispering published by Voidspace: out any day now
Heart Of Illness, Flowers and The Past Just Is, Trust Me published in Mental Health poetry book, compiled by Robin Barratt
A Day In the Life of Earth Dear Politicians: Ecopoetry Anthology – Stairwell Books
Sonder Becomes You & Sonder / Sorrow / Splendour - Sonder Series
Party At the End of the World is to be published in the upcoming edition of LIGHTS OUT by The Cosmic Daffodil Journal - live on November 1st, 2023.
Ageism
Age Is Just A Number and Eighty And Excellent
Two poems exploring why ageism is so rife.
What are we afraid of?
The truth is out there, but will we listen?
What do we lose because of prejudice?
What will change if we can only learn?
Age Becomes Us:
facing the aging process, uncomfortable truths.
And finally…
I don’t talk about this much on social media, but I have been dealing with chronic illness all my life. Below is my story.
Sarcoidosis: Snowflakes, Surviving and Self-Advocacy By Peter Devonald
Article published by SarcoidosisUK now – and later in the year in the Kaleidoscope book in USA.
https://www.sarcoidosisuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Peter-Devonald-Sarcoidosis-Story.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3nL29G5yTbgvJvglLlfFJ8je1DsKph_kzRIu1DglFRrOTgNYvMxvUode8