I've been online for the last month or so and omitted to tell anyone about it, so thought I'd do so now.First, some prose that would never have found a home had I not found the wonderful journal Spilling Ink Review. It's that lamassu again...
Here: http://spillinginkreview.com/issue-3/nonfiction/joanne-mckay/
And poetry in the Christmas issue of From Glasgow to Saturn, here: http://glasgowtosaturn.com/currentissue/poetry/
It's the University of Glasgow Creative Writing online magazine.
And do note that my good friend Vivien Jones also appears in both of the above. Entirely coincidental!
While I'm on the web-thing, it really is time I thanked everyone for blogging about Venti.
For some reason (and I swear I didn't watch the film when it was on at Christmas) those who did seem to fit so neatly into the cast of The Three Musketeers it would be a shame not to use the device in order to upload a gratuitious picture of Oliver Reed.
Here goes...
So first, as Athos, who better than the all-action, man-of-mystery swiss aka morgan downie, who blogged about Venti at swiss lounge productions, here: http://morgandownie.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/venti/
A little taste: 'there are things you buy because you feel you should and there are those other things you come across that you just have to have, this, and the aforementioned poetry bus, fall firmly into the latter category. i’m delighted for joanne that her first run has sold out and the penpont child labour camp has swung into action to make more (for me!). venti is a genuinely beuatuful thing, a delight to own.'
swiss liked the beuatuful and stuck with it, and so shall I.
And who else for the role of the affable sybarite, Porthos than Peter Goulding, The Stammering Poet himself?
His appraisal is here: http://stammeringpoet.blogspot.com/2010/10/get-this-book-now.html
A really good snippet: 'Venti is pure poetry in every sense of the word.'
The dashing, aesthete aftershave, Aramis? A Cuban in London, of course...
Here he is on Venti: http://cubaninlondon.blogspot.com/2010/10/venti-by-joanne-mckay-review.html
And an extract: "Venti" is a book to be read in autumn. Its sixteen poems carry the chill of early mornings and the long shadows of premature evenings. Its verses arrive with a sign that read "Enjoy with a mug of hot chocolate whilst wearing a woolly jumper and socks."
'What of the women?' I hear you cry. Sort of.
Well, Raquel Welch's curves apart, the dominating female presence in the film is the wicked Milady de Winter, played by Faye Dunaway.
No one could follow in her footsteps apart from the Hollywood babe with the mellifluous voice, Jane Moxey.
You can read her here : http://moxeymusings.blogspot.com/2010/10/prize-adventures-ofventi.html
A taster: Yesterday I took "Venti" to work with me. I had to do a stint at the local TV station. On the way into town, I stopped at our local drive-through espresso stand and ordered like this: " I'd like a Non-Fat Venti Latte with 2 Splendas, please." The barrista said: "You do know that that means a twenny-ounce with 3 shots of espresso, ma'am, don't you?"
Now, could I find a shot of Geraldine Chapman as Queen Anne anywhere? No, I could not.
But fulfilling this royal role we have the fabby, ever-unruffled Jean Atkin at Writer in the Storm, here: http://writerinthestorm.blogspot.com/2010/10/review-of-venti-by-joanne-mckay.html
A snippet: 'These poems are engaging because the poet’s self-reliance and the intelligent judgement she brings to her observation of the world shine through. ‘Venti’ feels surefooted. And it’s jolly nice to own.'
Much easier to get one of Raquel Welch as the well-meaning, but ditzy Constance.
Now for some reason I thought of Poetikat. Hmm...
You can read her here: http://hyggedigter.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-to-my-wondering-eyes-venti.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PoetikatsInvisibleKeepsakes+%28Poetikat%27s+Invisible+Keepsakes%29
And you really should, because she wrote a poem about it. How moved can I be?
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