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Ashley 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 Storm
Ashley’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 Seasons
Ashley’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
Haiku
Newsletter
City of Masks (fiction)
Close-Up Editing & Assessment
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