Bad Dreams Are Made of This...

Firstly, two poems from The Land of Bad Dreams have been nominated for the 2012 Rhysling Awards. These are the annual awards of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. "The Kite", which concerns neither the wind nor paper, has been nominated in the short poetry section, while "The Soldier's Return", a good old-fashioned ballad concerning good old-fashioned sorcery, has been nominated in the long.

Secondly, another review has appeared in Star*Line, the magazine of the Science Fiction Poetry Association ( 35.1, January - March 2012). I quote:

"The Land of Bad Dreams is as interesting as it is entertaining, as melancholic as it is witty. Maybe Ward wants to give us nightmares; maybe she just wants to share the things she sees in her own dreams. Either way, the works of this celebrated Australian poet deserve to travel the dark currents to far and distant lands, where they will undoubtedly haunt the nights of unwary sleepers." - Edward Cox.

Who am I to disagree?