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  • About AshleyAshley teaches Media and English in Victoria, Australia. His first collection of poetry pollen and the storm was published with the assistance of Small Change Press in 2008, and his second collection Stepping Over Seasons was released by Interactive Press in 2009. A haiku chapbook Orion Tips the Saucepan was released by Picaro Press in 2010. His work can be found in a variety of print and online publications in Australia (and even once exhibited on public transport in Melbourne) and a few overseas. He has worked in community arts where he assisted with exhibitions, organised short story competitions and poetry gigs, and in music retail while completing a double degree in Arts/Education at Monash University. Recently his work has been awarded a commendation in the Rosemary Dobson Poetry Prize and in 2009 he won the Ipswich Open Poetry Award with the poem ‘shell.’ Between 2002 and 2006 he co-edited small print magazine Egg (Poetry) and is currently involved with several online publications – holland1945 a journal of image and text, and kipple, a simple poetry blog. In addition to this, he also moderates collaborative renku site Issa’s Snail and collaborative verse site The Poetry Slave. Ashley occasionally dabbles in film, is addicted to 80s cartoon shows and Studio…
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    • Pollen and the StormAshley’s first poetry collection, (32pgs) edited by Graham Nunn and published with the assistance of Small Change Press in 2008. Ashley Capes’ exquisitely crafted poetry in pollen and the storm explores single moments, from an intimate view. His are deep and perceptive poems, that draw the reader in. ‘31 Anderson Street’ shows a moment in time where the domestic grind drives us toward a different reality: she watched the cars/smoking/ as she dragged in the evening/ pollen and the storm/ coming unstuck, fluttering to the road/ where she caught their scent. The poems in pollen and the storm express hope, Capes is, however, still aware of the impermanence of things: the past moves into shot/ like a death cap/ bursting from/ earth, smooth/ green (taken from the poem ‘prune’). Whether the mood of the poem is romantic, hopeful, pertinent, or expansive, Capes’ ability to vividly realise each moment will have you wanting to revisit each poem again and again. Graham Nunn . Ashley Capes is a poet of spirit and a poet of place, and the scent and sense of his imagistic landscapes instill breath and animate his words and the stories he tells in his new publication pollen and…
    • Stepping Over SeasonsAshley’s second poetry collection (54pgs), Stepping Over Seasons, is available from Interactive Publications now! Jump to IP to have a look, and below are a couple of samples from the collection:. royal on the park at the hotel pool reflections in chequered blue, the fat boy circles chairs and at last disrobes, each gesture a hip or an ankle conscious of people in apartments across the street in a kind of rear window montage: a man opens a window grunt riding beads of sweat down his chin a woman kicks thongs off on the balcony her radio stutters a couple stare across the city, letting go of whatever’s between them and the boy hovers in the deep end, surrounded by frangipanis. . farm dawn comes like someone embarrassed to bring bad news, sunlight very soft on weatherboard. in the horse’s mouth even straw sleeps and the earth holds perfume, memory of rain on pine needles. hills are bone-grey and a cold hand massages the empty river, no prayers swim this belly of dust, no whispers to quicken fruit. night looks down in a shower of moth wings, headlights turn powerlines into silver webs and cheeks go unshaven. . Reviews When…
    • Orion Tips the Saucepan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …. . Orion Tips the Saucepan is my first haiku collection and it’s just been released by and is available at Picaro Press! It’s my first haiku collection and includes a renku I led a while ago, which was first published in Notes from the Gean. The collection is a neat, A6-sized, 24 page chapbook, printed beautifully by Picaro, and available for $5 incl postage – both by contacting me here, or e-mailing me ( mountain0ash[at]gmail[dot]com ) and at the Picaro site. Here’s a few samples . easter monday fresh flowers on the roadside . summer night, a red seahorse in the clouds . docked at the mud-puddle sails of a butterfly . the fingernail moon never for some reason a toenail   summer night, a red seahorse in the clouds
    • Between Giants
    • Old Stone: Haiku, Senryu & Haibun
    • 7 Years
    • Between Giants & Old Stone (2in1)
  • Italy 2011
    • Italy 2011
    • Begging in Rome
    • Consecration
    • Pompeii Haiku
    • Gelati
    • Cappella Sistina
    • Temples
    • Thursday 22nd September, Rome
    • Vittoria Scaffidi
    • Florence Haiku Sequence
    • Friday 30th September, Florence
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  • The Moss Dragon of Brittlekeep – Releasing Tomorrow!

    One day I hope to share some actual poetry news here, but in the meantime I’m excited to announce my first fiction release in over a year! This is also the first time I’ve written a book specifically aimed at the YA category too 🙂 Here’s the blurb: When Penny stumbles across a dragon’s tooth […]

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    January 26, 2023
    Books, fiction, new release
    adventure, ashley capes, fantasy, fiction, new, YA, young adult
  • The Exiles Trilogy – Kickstarter is Live

    Hi again! The campaign is live and the first goal is close to one-quarter funded after two days, so I’m very happy with that start 🙂 Visit the page to read the first three chapters of book one, along with checking out the cover art for book one and now also book two 🙂 The […]

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    January 19, 2023
    Books, fiction, new release
    ashley capes, epic fantasy, kickstarter, new
  • The Exiles Trilogy – Kickstarter, Tuesday 17 Jan 2023

    Hi again! As you can see above, the campaign now has a launch date – 17th Jan 😀 While the kickstarter’s main purpose is to fund the three books (of course) I also have a big stretch goal – which is for interior illustrations! More details about that are available on the campaign page upon […]

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    January 6, 2023
    Books, fiction, new release
    ashley capes, epic fantasy, kickstarter, new
  • The Exiles Trilogy – Kickstarter Launching Jan 2023

    Hi again! The kickstarter campaign now has a launch date🙂 More info to come in the following weeks! You can sign up to be notified of the launch by clicking the link below: The Exiles Trilogy Ashley

    ashleycapes

    November 27, 2022
    Books, fiction, new release
    ashley capes, new
  • The Exiles Trilogy – Kickstarter Coming Soon!

    Hello, hello! I have a little news to share just quickly, which is that I’ll be launching a kickstarter campaign for an entire trilogy soon 🙂 You can sign up to be notified of the launch by clicking the link below: The Exiles Trilogy More info to follow! Ashley

    ashleycapes

    July 27, 2022
    Books, fiction, new release
    ashley capes, new
  • Seeking Participants – Poetry Fundraiser for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre

    Hi everyone, I’m writing to ask if you’d be interested (or know a poet who might be) in participating in a fundraiser for the ASRC (Asylum Seeker Resource Centre). As you may or may not know, Australia continues its human rights abuses in regard to people seeking asylum here and I want to try something […]

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    June 1, 2021
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  • Lionsheart – Kickstarter Fully Funded + Merch Stretch Goal!

    Thank you! 😀 We’re fully funded in just 11 days – which means backers will now be able to get their hands on Lionsheart around two months before retailers do 🙂 And if you haven’t had a chance to pre-order, you can still do so, as there’s plenty of time left on the campaign. Here […]

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    April 4, 2020
    Books, fiction, new release
    ashley capes, bone mask cycle, epic fantasy, fiction, kickstarter, lionsheart
  • Lionsheart – Kickstarter is Live!

    Morning all! My new kickstarter is now live, so if you’ve been keen to take a look at the final page you can do so via the link below: Lionsheart – Kickstarter I’ve launched a little early to hopefully give folks extra reading time leading up to the book’s release. I know the covid-19 virus […]

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    March 24, 2020
    Books, fiction, new release
    ashley capes, bone mask cycle, epic fantasy, fiction, kickstarter, lionsheart
  • The Five Furies of Heaven – Out Now

    The Five Furies of Heaven – Out Now

    Hello! I know it’s been many moons since I posted on this blog, and perhaps longer since I posted about fiction here, but I wanted to say that I have a new release 🙂   If you’ve already seen me posting about The Five Furies of Heaven on social media then you can just click […]

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    February 15, 2020
    Books, fiction, new release
    ashley capes, ebook, epic fantasy, fantasy, fiction, new release, The Five Furies of Heaven
  • When Figs Fly – Available Now! — Close-Up Books

    Close-Up Books is proud to announce the release of poetry collection When Figs Fly by Jane Downing! The collection is available in both ebook and print editions (by clicking on the image) and you can sample several poems beneath the blurb: Australian poet Jane Downing‘s When Figs Fly reveals life in Australia and beyond […] via […]

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    September 6, 2019
    Books, new release, poetry
    Australia, australian poetry, available now, close-up books, jane downing, memory, nature, new release, poetry, When Figs Fly
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