The Poetic Morning Jack B. Yeats
The submission period for issue 18, Summer 2026 is now open. The window will close on Friday, 15th May at midnight.
The theme for this issue is ‘Summer’. What do you hope for in the summer? How do you spend your days? Do you remember youth? Or holidays? Are you ready for blue skies and dawn choruses? Do thoughts of winter come to mind? For all of nature is a cycle, spinning and blending, like memory or time. Perhaps you are now a summer child. Can you rock out this theme?
Send up to 3 poems of 40 lines or less. Submissions of art and photography are also sought.
Send all submissions to orla.a.fay@gmail.com
Please do send work in Times New Roman, font 12. Include your work in the body of the email and as a Word document attachment.
Send a short bio of 50 words or less, written in the third person.
Those submitting work should be over 18.
“Oh, my sweet summer child,” Old Nan said quietly, “what do you know of fear?
Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet
deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long
night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children
are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and
hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
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