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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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  • 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
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  • Book of Never Playing Cards – Out Now!

    Hello! It’s been a little while since I posted here, and this one’s a fiction update actually – but there’s a poetry one right around the corner 😀 Today I wanted to mention that I have a deck of cards project based on some of my fiction and it’s out now, they’re based on my…

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    September 6, 2019
    Books, new release
    ashley capes, Book of Never, epic fantasy, fantasy, lin hsiang, new, playing cards, poker cards, shawn t king
  • When Figs Fly – Available Now!

    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…

    ashleycapes

    September 1, 2019
    Books, new release, poetry
    Australia, australian poetry, close-up books, jane downing, new poetry, new release, poetry
  • small town lazarus & teeth of the world – ebook release

    Hi folks – here’s a quick note to let you know the ebook versions of my two new poetry collections are slowly filtering down to retailers – I see the Amazon territories and B&N are on it but other folks are lagging a bit. Still, you can collect the slender teeth of the world for…

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    May 13, 2019
    Books, new release, poetry
    ashley capes, australian haiku, australian poetry, haiku, new poetry, poetry, senryu
  • Two New Poetry Collections!

    Good morning! I’m just popping in to share some news – I’ve got two collections up for pre-order right now, after a fairly long poetry hiatus I’ve suddenly been pretty busy, one is free-verse and the other is a mix of haiku & senryu – just in case anyone was looking to pick up a…

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    April 25, 2019
    Books, haiku, new release, poetry
    ashley capes, australian poetry, haiku, new release, poetry
  • Beneath the Ferny Tree – Available Now!

    Originally posted on Close-Up Books: Very proud to announce the release of David Schembri’s horror and dark fantasy collection Beneath the Ferny Tree! You can grab a copy at any retailer via this link right here and the paperback edition is right around the corner too! Over here you can learn a little more about…

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    January 15, 2019
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  • Originally posted on Australian Haiku Society: pushing memories along a dirt road the wind Ashley Capes Selection and comments by Rob Scott This haiku from Ashley Capes resonates on a number of levels. Firstly, Capes writes from a place that is identifiably Australian. Largely desert or semi-arid, Australia is one of the great dust producing…

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    May 27, 2018
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  • Submission Guidelines (Open 30th April – 30th July)

    Originally posted on Close-Up Books: Submissions are now open! Poetry We’re looking for a wide range of poetry styles, including but not limited to free-verse, experimental works, haiku, haibun and related forms along with just about any other style or form out there. If you’re not sure whether what you’re doing is a fit –…

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    April 29, 2018
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  • Kickstarter Campaign Ending Soon!

    What’s smaller than 70? 46! 46 hrs to go on the Book of Never #6 Kickstarter, folks 😀 In case you haven’t come across this yet and also follow my fiction, you can see updates and notes on add-ons and stretch goals here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1157305546/the-phoenix-of-kiymako-an-epic-fantasy-novel/posts/2160334 And the image below has a link to the general campaign…

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    April 28, 2018
    fiction
    ashley capes, Book of Never, fiction, kickstarter, the phoenix of kiymako
  • The Phoenix of Kiymako – Kickstarter is Live!

    And it’s finally time to launch! The Kickstarter is live and if you’re a Never fan, here’s your chance to pre-order his 6th adventure – the one where he finally learns his true name! Over on the kickstarter page you’ll see some great rewards for backing the campaign – one of which that I’ll mention…

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    March 31, 2018
    Books, fiction
    ashley capes, epic fantasy, kickstarter, never #6, new fiction, pre-order, The Book of Never, the phoenix of kiymako
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