{"id":1868,"date":"2013-08-04T10:37:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T23:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2013-08-04T10:41:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T23:41:07","slug":"an-accident-waiting-to-happen-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1868","title":{"rendered":"an accident waiting to happen in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bigstock_pen_157401621.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1870\" title=\"bigstock_pen_15740162\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bigstock_pen_157401621.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Stars Like Sand<\/em>\u00a0is an anthology of Australian speculative poetry (science fiction, fantasy, horror and related genres) to be published next year. The collection will include both new and previously-published work. I\u2019m especially interested because it will contain my poem <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1768\">an accident waiting to happen<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Accident<\/em> has been particularly kind to me. I first performed it live with <a href=\"https:\/\/myspace.com\/max-mo\/music\/song\/an-accident-waiting-to-happen.mp3-87597180-97197018\">Max_Mo<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">(one of our better collaborations in my humble opinion.) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">It was first text-published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redriverreview.com\/\">Red River Review<\/a> (US)\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">in Nov 2012 as the first part of a longer sequence <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Original clich\u00e9s<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> and later recommended for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundresspublications.com\/bestof\/\">Best of The Net<\/a> award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year I mixed my own version of it with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1768\">kara square\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">and it was also reinterpreted in a Dadaist version under the title <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">The Uncertainty of Principles as Principle of Certainty about unknown Unknowns<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1810\">annabloom<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">I\u2019m very proud that the poem has now been collected for an inaugural Australian anthology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Stars Like Sand will be published by leading Australian poetry publisher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipoz.biz\/default.htm\">IP<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">(Interactive Publications) of Brisbane.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the editors New Zealand poet Tim Jones and Australian poet P. S. Cottier. for considering and selecting my work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stars Like Sand\u00a0is an anthology of Australian speculative poetry (science fiction, fantasy, horror and related genres) to be published next year. The collection will include both new and previously-published work. I\u2019m especially interested because it will contain my poem &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1868\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1872,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}