klward

Very pleased that two of my poems from The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities - "Don't Open The Box!" and an extract of "The Macabre Modern" itself, are in the 2020 Rhysling Anthology. That means someone nominated them for the Rhysling Award. Which is great, but judged on its own merits this is a fantastic collection that I would recommend to anyone.



I am fond of "Don't Open The Box!" as it isn't often I do something a purely comedic and the structure had its own challenges. I performed it at Script in Hand, November 2017, when I was the MC for the evening, and it went down very well.

"I tell you, don't open the box!
"With the latch and the leonine claws.
"Don't mind what's inside it! If I choose to hide it,
'It's surely no business of yours...."