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| + | I think that I shall never see, | ||
| + | Any good [[Fantastic]] poetry, | ||
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| + | So far all that I’ve seen has been, | ||
| + | [[Hack]]ed out by a badly leaking pen. | ||
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| + | But, just in case some lad or lass, | ||
| + | Thinks that his [[epic]] will hack surpass. | ||
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| + | I beg of them to send in their all, | ||
| + | And heed my low and pleading call. | ||
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| + | By [[Ray Fisher|Duggie Fisher Junior]], ''[[Odd]]'' 7 ([https://fanac.org/fanzines/ODD/ODD07.pdf October 1950]) | ||
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[[Fantasy]] poetry of course dates from the earliest times. [[Science-fiction]] has not seemed such a good subject for poetic flights, but efforts have been made by [[fans]] (some worthy) and among famous poets scientistic pieces are found -- notably in Tennyson and [[Kipling]] -- tho some with [[stfnal]] themes are actually anti-science. | [[Fantasy]] poetry of course dates from the earliest times. [[Science-fiction]] has not seemed such a good subject for poetic flights, but efforts have been made by [[fans]] (some worthy) and among famous poets scientistic pieces are found -- notably in Tennyson and [[Kipling]] -- tho some with [[stfnal]] themes are actually anti-science. | ||
| − | In [[fandom]] and the [[proz]] we have: ballads, usually of rather simple appeal; a couple of [[epic]]s; such semi-narrative and descriptive poems as "Passing of the Planets"; store of poetry expressing personal feeling with no connection with [[fantasy]] save that [[fantasy]] [[fans]] have written it or Red Moon, Martian Lover, first space flight, [[ktp]], are substituted for [[mundane]] themes; [[Dadaism|dadaistic]] and [[Metaphysical Poetry|metaphysical stuff]]; jingles like [[daffy poetics]]; and a great many parodies of various types of poems and songs. | + | In [[fandom]] and the [[proz]] we have: ballads, usually of rather simple appeal; a couple of [[epic]]s; such semi-narrative and descriptive poems as "Passing of the Planets"; store of poetry expressing personal feeling with no connection with [[fantasy]] save that [[fantasy]] [[fans]] have written it or Red Moon, Martian Lover, first space flight, [[ktp]], are substituted for [[mundane]] themes; [[Dadaism|dadaistic]] and [[Metaphysical Poetry|metaphysical stuff]]; jingles like [[daffy poetics]]; and a great many [[burlesque|parodies]] of various types of poems and songs. |
| − | All the familiar verse forms are used. [[Lowndes]] and others have written many sonnets (and [[Lovecraft]]'s ''Fungi from Yuggoth'' are favorites), ''[[vers libre]]'' is popular with our [[Bohemians]], [[Speer]] has plugged the [[Anglo-Saxon Poetry|Anglo-Saxon measure]]. Standard stanza division is usual in poems of more than [[Fillers|filler]] size; there has been comparatively little blank verse. | + | All the familiar verse forms are used. [[Doc Lowndes|Lowndes]] and others have written many sonnets (and [[H. P. Lovecraft|Lovecraft]]'s ''[[H. P. Lovecraft#Fungi from Yuggoth|Fungi from Yuggoth]]'' are favorites), ''[[vers libre]]'' is popular with our [[Bohemians]], [[Jack Speer|Speer]] has plugged the [[Anglo-Saxon Poetry|Anglo-Saxon measure]]. Standard stanza division is usual in poems of more than [[Fillers|filler]] size; there has been comparatively little [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms/blank-verse blank verse. ] |
| − | All-poetry | + | All-poetry [[booklet]]s appear with reasonable frequency. [[FAPA]] has a poetry [[laureate]], and a short-lived [[SF Poets' Guild]] was organized by [[Frederik Pohl|Pohl]] in 1938. |
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| − | See also: [[Anglo-Saxon Poetry]] | + | ==='''See also:''' === |
| + | <div style="column-count:3;"> | ||
| + | *[[Anglo-Saxon Poetry]] | ||
| + | * [[Beardmuttering]] | ||
| + | *[[Cuddlypets]] | ||
| + | *[[Daffy Poetics]] | ||
| + | *[[Fillers]] | ||
| + | *[[Little Willy Verses]] | ||
| + | *[[Metaphysical Poetry]] | ||
| + | * [[Non-Poetry]] | ||
| + | *[[Scifaiku]] | ||
| + | *[[Speculative Poetry]] | ||
| + | * [[Vers Libre]] | ||
| + | * [[Widowers]] | ||
| + | * [[Rhysling Award]] | ||
| + | *[[Science Fiction Poetry Association]] | ||
| + | *{{SFE|name=poetry}} | ||
| + | </div> | ||
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| + | ==='''Poetry [[fanzines]] and [[semiprozines]]:''' === | ||
| + | <div style="column-count:3;"> | ||
| + | *''[[Arion]]'' | ||
| + | *''[[Bleak December]]'' | ||
| + | * ''[[Cataclysm]]'' | ||
| + | *''[[Challenge]]'' | ||
| + | *''[[Collected Poems of G. M. Carr]]'' | ||
| + | * ''[[Eye to the Telescope]]'' | ||
| + | * [[Gafia Poetry Leaflet Series]] | ||
| + | * ''[[Inner Circle]]'' | ||
| + | * ''[[The Magazine of Speculative Poetry]]'' | ||
| + | * ''[[Nepenthe]]'' | ||
| + | * ''[[Perdita: Songs of Love Sex and Self Pity]]'' | ||
| + | * ''[[Sappho]]'' | ||
| + | * ''[[Segments of an Eclipsed Reality]]'' | ||
| + | *''[[The Silent Planet]]'' | ||
| + | *''[[Snowflakes in the Sun]]'' | ||
| + | * ''[[Starlanes]]'' | ||
| + | *''[[Star*Line]]'' | ||
| + | *''[[Treaders of Starlight]]'' | ||
| + | </div> | ||
| − | + | ==='''Selected fan poets:''' === | |
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| + | * [[Henry Andrew Ackermann]] | ||
| + | * [[Doug Barbour]] | ||
| + | * [[R. H. Barlow]] | ||
| + | * [[Ruth Berman]] | ||
| + | * [[Bill Blackbeard]] | ||
| + | * [[Jenny Blackford]] | ||
| + | * [[Redd Boggs]] | ||
| + | * [[G. Sutton Breiding]] | ||
| + | * [[Gertrude M. Carr]] | ||
| + | * [[Fred Chappell]] | ||
| + | * [[Al Curry]] | ||
| + | * [[Isabelle Dinwiddie]] | ||
| + | * [[Noreen Falasca]] | ||
| + | * [[Rory Faulkner]] | ||
| + | * [[Bryn Fortey]] | ||
| + | * [[Terry A. Garey]] | ||
| + | * [[Nan Gerding]] | ||
| + | * [[Hyacinthe Hill]] | ||
| + | * [[William J. Jenkins]] | ||
| + | * [[Tim Jones]] | ||
| + | * [[Al Katerinsky]] | ||
| + | * [[X. J. Kennedy]] | ||
| + | * [[Jonquil Leiber]] | ||
| + | * [[Lilith Lorraine]] | ||
| + | * [[Doc Lowndes]] | ||
| + | * [[Orma McCormick]] | ||
| + | * [[J. Chapman Miske]] | ||
| + | * [[Jomil Mulvey]] | ||
| + | * [[Nanek]] | ||
| + | * [[Ray Nelson]] | ||
| + | * [[Edith Ogutsch]] | ||
| + | * [[Fred Pohl]] | ||
| + | * [[Duane W. Rimel]] | ||
| + | * [[Jan Sadler]] | ||
| + | * [[Jessica Amanda Salmonson]] | ||
| + | * [[Steve Sneyd]] | ||
| + | * [[Genevieve K. Stephens]] | ||
| + | * [[Bill Warren (KS)]] | ||
| + | * [[Billy Ray Wolfenbarger]] | ||
| + | * [[Leah A. Zeldes]] | ||
| + | * [[Paul Edwin Zimmer]] | ||
| + | </div> | ||
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Far beyond our dreary ken <br/> | Far beyond our dreary ken <br/> | ||
To a desert dying planet <br/> | To a desert dying planet <br/> | ||
| − | And a dying race of men." | + | And a dying race of men." <ref>See below for the complete poem, from the [https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/the-perversity-of-things/resource/_science-wonder-stories-_-vol-1-no-6-november-1929 November 1929 issue] of ''[[Science Wonder Stories]]''. [[Fancyclopedia]]’s [[Jack Speer]] apparently never saw the whole [[Planet Prince]] poem before including that one quatrain. The misquoted stanza in [[Fancyclopedia 1]] appeared in a [[loc]] from [[D. R. Welch]] in the same 1934 ''[[Wonder Stories]]'' as Speer’s letter, mentioned below. In a 1956 [[fanoir]], “[[Fancyclopedia Forever!]]” Speer wrote, “When I found what the second verse was of ‘And my mind goes soaring upward,’ I wished I could expunge that.” </ref> |
| − | A bit over done, but genuine. In [[fandom]] and the [[prozines|pros]] we have: ballads, usually of rather simple appeal; one [[epic]]; other semi-narrative and descriptive poems such as "Passing of the Planets";<ref> | + | A bit over done, but genuine. In [[fandom]] and the [[prozines|pros]] we have: ballads, usually of rather simple appeal; one [[epic]]; other semi-narrative and descriptive poems such as "Passing of the Planets";<ref>Two poems by [[H. S. Zerrin]], “Passing of the Planets—Luna” and “PotP—Venus,” that appeared in the March and April 1934 issues of ''[[Wonder Stories]]''. In [https://archive.org/details/Wonder_Stories_v06n04_1934-09/page/n125/mode/2up the November issue], a letter from [[Jack Speer]] complained, “What’s happened to the rest of that series ‘Passing of the Planets’? Surely other planets besides the moon and Venus have, or some day, will pass.” (Alas, we can find no more of Zerrin’s work anywhere.)</ref> store of love lyrics and others expressing personal feeling, which have no connection with [[fantasy]] except that [[fantasy]] [[fans]] have written them, as well as numerous [[fantasy]] lyrics addressed to Red Moon or a Martian lover or the first space flite; [[Dadaism|dadistic]] and [[Metaphysical Poetry|metaphysical stuff]]; jingles like [[daffy poetics]]; and a great many [[burlesque|parodies]] of various types of poems and songs. |
| − | All the familiar verse forms are used. [[Lowndes]] and others have written many sonnets ([[Lovecraft]]'s ''Fungi from Yuggoth'' are favorites), ''[[vers libre]]'' is popular with our [[Bohemians]], [[Speer]] has plugged the [[Anglo-Saxon Poetry|Anglo-Saxon measure]]. Standard stanza division is usually in poems of grater than [[Fillers|filler]] size; there has been comparatively little blank vers. | + | All the familiar verse forms are used. [[Doc Lowndes|Lowndes]] and others have written many sonnets ([[H. P. Lovecraft|Lovecraft]]'s ''[[H. P. Lovecraft#Fungi from Yuggoth|Fungi from Yuggoth]]'' are favorites), ''[[vers libre]]'' is popular with our [[Bohemians]], [[Jack Speer|Speer]] has plugged the [[Anglo-Saxon Poetry|Anglo-Saxon measure]]. Standard stanza division is usually in poems of grater than [[Fillers|filler]] size; there has been comparatively little [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms/blank-verse blank vers.] |
| − | All poetry booklets appear rather often. There was a short-lived [[SF Poets' Guild]]. The [[FAPA]] has a poetry [[laureate]]. | + | All poetry [[booklets]] appear rather often. There was a short-lived [[SF Poets' Guild]]. The [[FAPA]] has a poetry [[laureate]]. |
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| − | + | =='''My Little Martian Sweetheart'''== | |
| − | + | By [[The Planet Prince]]. | |
How this man-filled world seems vacant | How this man-filled world seems vacant | ||
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To the scenes of Terra’s bliss. | To the scenes of Terra’s bliss. | ||
| − | For I see a Terrene cottage, | + | For I see a [[Terran|Terrene]] cottage, |
Hung with vines of earthly green, | Hung with vines of earthly green, | ||
Where, my little Martian sweetheart, | Where, my little Martian sweetheart, | ||
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Latest revision as of 05:52, 12 March 2024
I think that I shall never see, Any good Fantastic poetry, So far all that I’ve seen has been, Hacked out by a badly leaking pen. But, just in case some lad or lass, Thinks that his epic will hack surpass. I beg of them to send in their all, And heed my low and pleading call. By Duggie Fisher Junior, Odd 7 (October 1950)
| From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959 |
| Fantasy poetry of course dates from the earliest times. Science-fiction has not seemed such a good subject for poetic flights, but efforts have been made by fans (some worthy) and among famous poets scientistic pieces are found -- notably in Tennyson and Kipling -- tho some with stfnal themes are actually anti-science.
In fandom and the proz we have: ballads, usually of rather simple appeal; a couple of epics; such semi-narrative and descriptive poems as "Passing of the Planets"; store of poetry expressing personal feeling with no connection with fantasy save that fantasy fans have written it or Red Moon, Martian Lover, first space flight, ktp, are substituted for mundane themes; dadaistic and metaphysical stuff; jingles like daffy poetics; and a great many parodies of various types of poems and songs. All the familiar verse forms are used. Lowndes and others have written many sonnets (and Lovecraft's Fungi from Yuggoth are favorites), vers libre is popular with our Bohemians, Speer has plugged the Anglo-Saxon measure. Standard stanza division is usual in poems of more than filler size; there has been comparatively little blank verse. All-poetry booklets appear with reasonable frequency. FAPA has a poetry laureate, and a short-lived SF Poets' Guild was organized by Pohl in 1938. |
See also:[edit]
Poetry fanzines and semiprozines:[edit]
- Arion
- Bleak December
- Cataclysm
- Challenge
- Collected Poems of G. M. Carr
- Eye to the Telescope
- Gafia Poetry Leaflet Series
- Inner Circle
- The Magazine of Speculative Poetry
- Nepenthe
- Perdita: Songs of Love Sex and Self Pity
- Sappho
- Segments of an Eclipsed Reality
- The Silent Planet
- Snowflakes in the Sun
- Starlanes
- Star*Line
- Treaders of Starlight
Selected fan poets:[edit]
- Henry Andrew Ackermann
- Doug Barbour
- R. H. Barlow
- Ruth Berman
- Bill Blackbeard
- Jenny Blackford
- Redd Boggs
- G. Sutton Breiding
- Gertrude M. Carr
- Fred Chappell
- Al Curry
- Isabelle Dinwiddie
- Noreen Falasca
- Rory Faulkner
- Bryn Fortey
- Terry A. Garey
- Nan Gerding
- Hyacinthe Hill
- William J. Jenkins
- Tim Jones
- Al Katerinsky
- X. J. Kennedy
- Jonquil Leiber
- Lilith Lorraine
- Doc Lowndes
- Orma McCormick
- J. Chapman Miske
- Jomil Mulvey
- Nanek
- Ray Nelson
- Edith Ogutsch
- Fred Pohl
- Duane W. Rimel
- Jan Sadler
- Jessica Amanda Salmonson
- Steve Sneyd
- Genevieve K. Stephens
- Bill Warren
- Billy Ray Wolfenbarger
- Leah A. Zeldes
- Paul Edwin Zimmer
| From Fancyclopedia 1, ca. 1944 |
| Fantasy poetry of course dates from earliest times. Science-fiction has not seemed such a good theme for poetic flites, but efforts have been made by fans, some worthy, and among great poets sciencistic pieces were found, notably in Tennyson. A good example of purely science-fiction poetry is the Planet Prince's quatrain:
"And my mind goes soaring upward A bit over done, but genuine. In fandom and the pros we have: ballads, usually of rather simple appeal; one epic; other semi-narrative and descriptive poems such as "Passing of the Planets";[2] store of love lyrics and others expressing personal feeling, which have no connection with fantasy except that fantasy fans have written them, as well as numerous fantasy lyrics addressed to Red Moon or a Martian lover or the first space flite; dadistic and metaphysical stuff; jingles like daffy poetics; and a great many parodies of various types of poems and songs. All the familiar verse forms are used. Lowndes and others have written many sonnets (Lovecraft's Fungi from Yuggoth are favorites), vers libre is popular with our Bohemians, Speer has plugged the Anglo-Saxon measure. Standard stanza division is usually in poems of grater than filler size; there has been comparatively little blank vers. All poetry booklets appear rather often. There was a short-lived SF Poets' Guild. The FAPA has a poetry laureate. |
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- ↑ See below for the complete poem, from the November 1929 issue of Science Wonder Stories. Fancyclopedia’s Jack Speer apparently never saw the whole Planet Prince poem before including that one quatrain. The misquoted stanza in Fancyclopedia 1 appeared in a loc from D. R. Welch in the same 1934 Wonder Stories as Speer’s letter, mentioned below. In a 1956 fanoir, “Fancyclopedia Forever!” Speer wrote, “When I found what the second verse was of ‘And my mind goes soaring upward,’ I wished I could expunge that.”
- ↑ Two poems by H. S. Zerrin, “Passing of the Planets—Luna” and “PotP—Venus,” that appeared in the March and April 1934 issues of Wonder Stories. In the November issue, a letter from Jack Speer complained, “What’s happened to the rest of that series ‘Passing of the Planets’? Surely other planets besides the moon and Venus have, or some day, will pass.” (Alas, we can find no more of Zerrin’s work anywhere.)
My Little Martian Sweetheart[edit]
How this man-filled world seems vacant When the long earth-day is o’er! As I sit in my apartment On the hundred-twentieth floor. Then my mind goes soaring upward. Far beyond our dreary ken. To a desert, dying planet. And a dying race of men. Oh, my little Martian sweetheart In your crimson world afar, I will soon be up to greet you In my little space-o-car. You will steal away to meet me In the garden in the air, O’er the great canals that vanish ’Neath the polar ice-caps’ flare. And will swoop into the darkness On our stellar journey start, While your tiny Martian moonlets Through your fearful heavens dart. Passing them with speed of lightning, Scaling steps of untold height, Darting through a whirl of comets, Dashing through a spray of light. Diving, lighting, climbing, looping, Through the universe of space, Till the warm red blood is pumping, And we check our headlong pace. Sailing there in all our splendor, Through the darkest voids of space, Far from where our distant Daystar Shows his point-diminished face. And you’ll turn those red lips upward, Eyelids drooping like a hood— Careful, little Martian sweetheart, Earthly man is not of wood! For those blue eyes, all alluring, Seem to beg a loving kiss, And my dreams float swiftly backward, To the scenes of Terra’s bliss. For I see a Terrene cottage, Hung with vines of earthly green, Where, my little Martian sweetheart, You will reign, my lifelong queen. So, my little Martian sweetheart In your crimson world afar, I will soon be up to greet you In my little space-o-car.
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