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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…
  • Books
    • 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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  • Close-Up Editing & Assessment
  • The Phoenix of Kiymako (Art & News)

    Hi folks! If anyone also follows my fiction, I just wanted to give you a quick update or two – firstly, here’s the artwork for The Phoenix of Kiymako (Never #6) – once again by the awesome Lin Hsiang:   And further to this, I wanted to announce a Kickstarter for this particular short novel…

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    March 25, 2018
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  • Magpie Tales & The Frequency of God – Now Available in eBook

    Close-Up Books is proud to announce the release of two poetry titles, The Frequency of God by Mark William Jackson and Magpie Tales by SB Wright. You can sample each collection via the links above, where you can also find purchase links for the print editions and the newly available ebooks too. Ashley & Brooke

    ashleycapes

    March 5, 2018
    poetry
    australian haiku, australian poetry, available, ebook, Magpie Tales, mark william jackson, new poetry, new release, poetry, SB Wright, The Frequency of God
  • Revealed! ‘The Last Sea God’ Cover

    Here’s the cover art for The Last Sea God! Rebekah from Vivid Covers and I are both pretty excited to try a different style of cover for this series so we hope you like. I’m busting to hold a print copy myself 😀 Remember, the ebook is available for pre-order Feb 1st and you can…

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    January 21, 2018
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  • Patreon Launch!

    Hi everyone! This week I’m launching a Patreon page – for folks who’re not familiar with Patreon, here’s a link a short vid explaining it, but in even shorter form: it’s a way for fans to ensure creators can make more stuff! I’ve launched my page in order to expand my miniature publishing empire by…

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    January 18, 2018
    Books, fiction, poetry
    ashley capes, australian, australian poetry, fiction, haiku, new poetry, patreon, The Fairy Wren
  • 2006 : 2016 (a ‘least worst of’)

    The ego of it, right? Of course there’s got to be at least some involved any time I post, since the very act of sharing my stuff implies that I think it doesn’t suck. Well, with that in mind, I’ve recently released 2006 : 2016. In this collection, I’ve tried to cobble together 116 or…

    ashleycapes

    December 27, 2017
    Books, poetry
    ashley capes, australian poetry, between giants, collection, doubt, haiku, poetry, selected poetry, self-confidence, Stepping Over Seasons
  • ‘Magpie Tales’ by SB Wright + ‘The Frequency of God’ by Mark William Jackson

    Close-Up Books is very proud to announce the release of two new poetry collections by Australian Poets Mark William Jackson and SB Wright 🙂 Working with both Sean and Mark has been really rewarding for us; to get so close to the works within has been pretty exciting and so we’re thrilled to release two…

    ashleycapes

    December 21, 2017
    Books, poetry
    australian haiku, australian poetry, haibun, haiku, Magpie Tales, mark william jackson, new, new poetry, poetry, SB Wright, The Frequency of God
  • New Poetry Releases + Exciting News

    Hi everyone, sharing some poetry news today! First up: the previously announced reissue of my 2009 collection Stepping Over Seasons, which has been expanded, is finally available as both print and ebook. Second, I’ve also compiled a ‘least worst of’ (2006:2016) which draws from all my collections and hopefully presents some highlights along with stuff…

    ashleycapes

    December 19, 2017
    Books, poetry
    ashley capes, australian haiku, australian poetry, close-up books, Magpie Tales, mark william jackson, new poetry, new release, SB Wright, The Frequency of God
  • MOVING

    Hi folks! New address for poetry stuff – updates here will soon become increasingly infrequent(er)! http://poetry.ashleycapes.com/  

    ashleycapes

    December 6, 2017
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  • The Yellow Butterfly & Other Stories – Out Now!

    Long time no post here, but I’m back today to share a new release 🙂 The Yellow Butterfly & Other Stories is a collection of short fiction that brings together some of my previously published and unpublished stories from the last 5 years or so. Here’s the blurb:   Leap into worlds like and unlike…

    ashleycapes

    November 21, 2017
    Books, fiction
    ashley capes, australian, cyberpunk, fantasy, fiction, horror, new, new release, steampunk, the yellow butterfly
  • City of Masks – 99c Today!

    Hi again folks! My first epic fantasy novel, City of Masks is 99c today if anyone is looking to try some of my longer work 🙂  (Just click the image to be sent to your region’s Amazon).

    ashleycapes

    August 17, 2017
    fiction
    99c, ashley capes, city of masks, ebook, epic fantasy, sale, sword and sorcery
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