Clive at the Castle, Marly at Brazen Head

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The images: "Clive Hicks-Jenkins and the Art of the Book" at Hay Castle, including art from Seren of the Wildwood (WisebloodBooks), Charis in the World of Wonders (IgnatiusPress), and Maze of Blood (Mercer University Press.) The Charis images shown here are on Sussex Lustreware's World of Wonders line.

From Clive via Instagram:

Hay Castle, Hay-on-Wye

Dec 5th 2025 - March 8th 2026

Book covers and illustrations of the past ten years, including some never-before exhibited works for publishers @designfortoday, @foliosociety @faberbooks, #merceruniversitypress, @wiseblood_books_press, @ignatius_press and @penguinukbooks.

Original artworks for Beauty & Beast, Beowulf, Maze of Blood, Glimmerglass, The Owl and the Nightingale, Seren of the Wildwood, The Iliad/Odyssey, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (@penfoldpress for Faber & Faber) and Charis in the World of Wonders, as well as designs produced for @sussex_lustreware and @janesglass.

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NEW AT THE BRAZEN HEAD

"Eastern-inspired gems from Marly Youmans" -- The Brazen Head on X

The wonderful Brazen Head has published a group of five poems of mine. Some are the result of travels to Singapore and Seoul from the past summer, and others drifted along in their wake. Several of them join together the beauty of Otsego Lake with faraway Asian images. To read, go HERE.

Pentina for the Childhood Dream of Hong Zhu An -- After seeing My Dream from 50 Years Ago, National Gallery, Singapore

A Tang Scholar-Poet in the Stables

Idylls of Spring 

Blue Scene, Gold Box -- After seeing Geumgwedo (1656) by Jo Sok, National Museum of Korea

Four Winter Treasures at Otsego Lake

Halloween at New Verse Review

The Halloween issue of New Verse Review is online... edited by founding editor Steven Knepper, and Zina Gomez-Liss. It begins with a poem by me and ends with one by Jared Carter, and in between are a great many curious and interesting poems. Jump-scares HERE.  To attend the 8-9 p.m. Friday October 17 Zoom reading from the issue, go HERE for free tickets via Eventbrite.

Surfacing with a few poems

Apology-and-poems

I've neglected sending out poems and posting for a long time because of far-flung travels, a long stay in North Carolina after my mother's death, those peculiarly-named small but wicked demons Madame Plantar Faciitis and Sir Histamine Intolerance, and also the general oceanic chaos that is sometimes life. Luckily, I sent a few poems out and also received some welcome requests. So here are what new or recent-ish publications that come to mind. I'm afraid it's a bit random. Rather lazily, I have sometimes simply pointed to a page that gathers all my poems from different issues in one place, so be sure and ramble around and read other poets in the archives. (And in fact, you may find more of my poems from earlier years there if you keep scrolling down at The Brazen Head.)

I do have some (eight, maybe?) new poems coming out in The Colosseum, The Brazen Head, and New Verse Review... All three journals are good homes for poets who write in form, and they have interesting poet-editors. And I think a number of those poems reflect some of my travels of the past year and a half (Canada, Italy, Spain, Czech Republic, Hungary, Singapore, and South Korea--whew!), particularly in Asia.

• "A Painter of the Eleventh Century" in Mezzo Cammin

• "Aelfstan the Illuminator Begins a Work," English-Speaking Union (Victoria Branch, Australia) / ESU Formal Verse Contest 2024: Runner-up to the First Prize. President's Choice Award. Published at the English-Speaking Union (Victoria Branch) site and in The Brazen Head.
• "Blue and Shadow" in The Brazen Head
• "Child and Ancient Mask" in Mezzo Cammin
• "Jenetta, Blessed" in The Borough (Australia)
• From the archives — "Landscape With Icefall" in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily
• "Making and the Blackbird" in Presence (2025)
• "My Fox Wife" in The Borough (Australia)
• "Saint Thief" in New Verse Review
• "The Cartaghena Fair" in The Brazen Head
• "The Castle that is the World" (crown of sonnets) in Gramarye (University of Chichester, UK)
• "The Deepening Shade in The Borough (Australia)
• "The Maker in the Snows" in the special issue in memory of poet Jane Greer from New Verse Review.  A Tribute to Jane Greer: Poets and Friends Remember Jane Greer (1953-2025)
• "Thomas the Rhymer and the Ancient Paths" in Gramarye (University of Chichester, UK)
• "Woman in the Land of Dream-after-storm" in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily