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December 2023 – Pushcart Prize nominations

  • “Gyres” • Marcus Whalbring • ETTT 50
  • “ribbon spicy” • D. A. Xiaolin Spires • ETTT 50
  • “Like Trees at the Arboretum” • Mary Soon Lee • ETTT 49
  • “Hyphal knot” • Marisca Pichette • ETTT 48
  • “Mouthful of Lightning” • Amanda Hawk • ETTT 47
  • “Robert Walton’s Penultimate Entry” • Michael Hodges • ETTT 47

September 2023 – Best of the Net nominations

  • “Hyphal knot” • Marisca Pichette • ETTT 48
  • “Mouthful of Lightning” • Amanda Hawk • ETTT 47
  • “Robert Walton’s Penultimate Entry” • Michael Hodges • ETTT 47
  • “The Visit” • Juan Perez • ETTT 46
  • “Foxholes and Foxgloves” • Gretchen Tessmer • ETTT 45
  • “The Frosty Voyage” • Adele Gardner • ETTT 45
December 2022 – Pushcart Prize nominations
  • “Against The Wind” • Alma Alexander • ETTT 46
  • “Natural Forces” • William R. D. Wood • ETTT 45
  • “First Contact” • Lisa Timpf • ETTT 44
  • “Still Life with Nothing” • Amelia Gorman • ETTT 44
  • “Tigers, Wanderers, Queens” • Shana Ross • ETTT 43
  • “Will-o’-the-Wisps Convergently Evolved in the Sea” • AJ Wentz • ETTT 43

September 2022 – Best of the Net nominations

  • “The First Overture” • Mari Kurisato • ETTT 41
  • “Animal” • Rebecca Bratten Weiss • ETTT 42
  • “Will-o’-the-Wisps Convergently Evolved in the Sea” • AJ Wentz • ETTT 43
  • “Still Life with Nothing” • Amelia Gorman • ETTT 44
  • “First Contact” • Lisa Timpf • ETTT 44
  • “Tigers, Wanderers, Queens” • Shana Ross • ETTT 43
December 2021 – Pushcart Prize nominations
  • “Animal” • Rebecca Bratten Weiss • ETTT 42
  • “Aegean Pool” • John Muro • ETTT 42
  • “The First Overture of Sapient Chronological Chromatic Spacetime Warp Experiments” • Mari Kurisato • ETTT 41
  • “You Have Died of Dysentery” • Russell Nichols • ETTT 40
  • “Swipples” • Craig Kurtz • ETTT 39
  • “I know when a boy has left home” • Martins Deep • ETTT 39

September 2021 – Best of the Net nominations

  • “I know when a boy has left home” • Martins Deep • ETTT 39
  • “invocation of my guardian angel in six sexts” • Camille Rosas • ETTT 37
  • “On becoming a cat” • Jane Williams • ETTT 38
  • “Swipples” • Craig Kurtz • ETTT 39
  • “This Will Only End In Disaster” • Isabella J Mansfield • ETTT 37
  • “You Have Died of Dysentery” • Russell Nichols • ETTT 40
December 2020 – Pushcart Prize nominations
  • “After Zhuangzi” • Mary Soon Lee • ETTT 38
  • “invocation of my guardian angel in six sexts” • Camille Rosas • ETTT 37
  • “This Will Only End In Disaster” • Isabella J Mansfield • ETTT 37
  • “Remind Me What We Believe” • William Doreski • ETTT 36
  • “The Paper Effigies Shop” • Deborah Wong • ETTT 36
  • “Casting Call: Youngsters” • Ruth Berman • ETTT 35

September 2020 – Best of the Net nominations

  • “Their Own Annihilation” • BJ Greville • ETTT 33
  • “Earworm Indoctrination” • Kurt Newton • ETTT 33
  • “The Cold Equations” • Lachlan R. • ETTT 35
  • “Remind Me What We Believe” • William Doreski • ETTT 36
  • “Mrs. Housekeeper” • Beth Cato • ETTT 35
  • “Anansi Talk” • Karyn De Freitas • ETTT 34

November 2019 – Pushcart Prize nominations

  • “Seal the Veil” • Ashley Dioses • ETTT 31
  • “Lost Palace, Lighted Tracks” • Oliver Smith • ETTT 32
  • “Ten-Card Tarot, Pentacles Wild” • F. J. Bergmann • ETTT 32
  • “Earworm Indoctrination” • Kurt Newton • ETTT 33
  • “To the Girl Who Drew Mushroom Clouds” • Karen J. Weyant • ETTT 33
  • “Beaver's Tail” • Brigit Truex • ETTT 34

November 2018 – Pushcart Prize nominations

  • “five sigils” • David F. Shultz • ETTT 27
  • “Ask”  • A. D. Harper • ETTT 27
  • “Ancient” • Jules Crewe-Kluge • ETTT 28
  • “The Poisoning” • Jessica Drake-Thomas • ETTT 29
  • “Consumption” • Jennifer Ruth Jackson • ETTT 29
  • “Circe” • Lucy Ann Florin • ETTT 30

July 2018 – Best of the Net nominations

  • “The Tree Builder” • Christina Loraine • ETTT 25
  • “Naming the Trash Moons” • Daniel Ausema • ETTT 25
  • “Oh, My Inamorata / Inamorato” • Robert Frazier • ETTT 26
  • “The Sonnet of Piyon, the Clockwork Android” • Katie Krantz • ETTT 26
  • “five sigils” • David F. Shultz • ETTT 27
  • “Ancient” • Jules Crewe-Kluge • ETTT 28

October 2017 – Pushcart Prize Nominations
The following poems published in 2017 have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize:

  • The Android Who Gave Herself Away • Rohinton Daruwala • ETTT 23
  • Just Rosie • Kathleen A. Lawrence • ETTT 23
  • Universe Hopping • Amanda Partridge • ETTT 24
  • The Tree Builder • Christina Loraine • ETTT 25
  • Point of Departure • F. J. Bergmann • ETTT 26
  • Of One’s Choosing • Loretta Casteen • ETTT 26

April 2017 – Eye To The Telescope Rhysling Nominations
The following poems published in 2016 have been nominated for the SFPA Rhysling Award:

  • Exploratory Colony 454—15th May, 2052 • Lore Bernier • ETTT 20
  • The Robot by the Fireplace • Ken Poyner • ETTT 20
  • Exotic Heads Trimmed Neatly • John Reinhart • ETTT 21
  • The Doppelgänger and the Ghost • Lev Mirov • ETTT 22

September 2016 – Best of the Net Nominations
The following poems published in the preceding year have been nominated for Best of the Net:

  • The Distance Between Stars, Stacey Gruver, Eye to the Telescope 17
  • Runner, Nora Weston, Eye to the Telescope 17
  • Mermaid, on Land, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Eye to the Telescope 18
  • Landscapes, Geoffrey A. Landis, Eye to the Telescope 19
  • Quicksilver Voices (Modern-Day Daedalus), Evelyn Deshane, Eye to the Telescope 19
  • The Robot by the Fireplace, Ken Poyner, Eye to the Telescope 20

April 2016 – Eye To The Telescope Rhysling Nominations
The following poems published in 2015 have been nominated for the SFPA Rhysling Award:

  • Requiem, Matt Quinn, Eye to the Telescope 16
  • The Sun Ships, Steven Withrow, Eye to the Telescope 16

April 2015 – Eye To The Telescope Rhysling Nominations
The following poems published in 2014 have been nominated for the SFPA Rhysling Award:

  • The Delusion of Trees, David Barber, Eye to the Telescope 14
  • Lost, F.J. Bergmann, Eye to the Telescope 14

July 2014 – Eye to the Telescope Best of the Net Finalist
F.J. Bergmann’s “What Not to Say to an Alien” from Issue 8 was a finalist in 2013 Best of the Net.

May 2013 – Eye To The Telescope Rhysling Nominations
The following poems published in 2012 have been nominated for the SFPA Rhysling Award:

  • Blind Obedience • Dennis M. Lane • Eye to the Telescope 4
  • Conservatory of Shadows • Jacie Ragan • Eye to the Telescope 6
  • First Context • John Garrison • Eye to the Telescope 5
  • Something Super • Mary Alexandra Agner • Eye to the Telescope 3

November 2012 – Eye to the Telescope Pushcart Nominations
The following poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by their respective editors. Thanks to editors & authors for making this such a great collection of nominated poems. I hope some of them win! —David C.Kopaska-Merkel

Eye to the Telescope 3, January 2012
“Something super” by Mary Alexandra Agner.
“The viper stands watch” by Natasha Kochicheril Moni.

Eye to the Telescope 4, April 2012
“There once was a werewolf named Dinah” by P. Andrew Miller.
“Lullaby for arachnophobes” by Ann K. Schwader.

Eye to the Telescope 5, July 2012
“Transmutation” by Linda D. Addison.

Eye to the Telescope 6, October 2012
“Dark revelation” by Fred Phillips.

October 2012 – Eye To The Telescope Dwarf Stars Nominations
The following poems published in 2011 have been nominated for the SFPA Dwarf Stars Award:

April 2012 – Eye To The Telescope Rhysling Nominations
The following poems published in 2011 have been nominated for the SFPA Rhysling Award:

August 2011 – Eye To The Telescope 2:
Robots, Time Machines, Aliens, And Joe Dolce

When the Science Fiction Poetry Association asked New Zealand poet, author and anthologist Tim Jones to edit an issue of their online magazine Eye To The Telescope featuring Australian New Zealand speculative poetry, he didn't expect to receive a submission from the singer-songwriter behind 1980s hit song “Shaddap You Face”—and he didn't expect to like it enough to include it in the issue.

“Shaddap You Face” was an Italian-themed novelty song that was absolutely inescapable in the early 1980s. ‘All I knew of Joe Dolce was that he wrote that one song,’ says Tim Jones. ‘What I didn't know is that he's also a fine poet, with work published in many of Australia's leading literary journals. His poem “Aliens” makes a great concluding poem for this issue.’

Speculative poetry covers poetry that fits within the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres, plus other associated genres like magic realism and surrealism. ‘It was really tough to choose only 20 poems from the much larger number of poems I'd like to have published,’ says Tim Jones, ‘but I'm happy to have included such a range of genres and styles.’

The first poem, Helen Rickerby's “If this is the future ...,” uses science fiction as a beautifully delicate metaphor, but there's also such hard-out science fiction poems as Chris Lynch's “Man in a wingsuit.” There is apocalyptic menace in Grant Stone's “Bordertown” and Emily Manger's “A whimper after the bang,” in contrast to the wry humour of Laurice Gilbert's “Exterminiknit.”

‘One of the things I'm most pleased about is that this issue brings together well-regarded poets, like Janis Freegard, Stephen Oliver and David Reiter, with authors best known for their fiction, like Mary Victoria and Peter Friend, both of whom contributed poems on fantasy themes, and Spanish-domiciled Australian writer Rod Usher,’ Tim Jones commented. ‘There's surrealism, a sonnet, and one dialect poem that reminds me of Russell Hoban's great novel “Riddley Walker”.’

Whether you love poetry, you love SF, fantasy, and horror, or you just want to find out what on earth speculative poetry is, there is something for you in Eye To The Telescope 2.


May 2011Eye To The Telescope 1

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