Michael Leach

@fionaapplerocks

Many thanks to the Liquid Amber team and judges, and congratulations to all the poets!

So grateful that my poem about the endangered green sea turtle species, ‘Limits of Vision’, has made it to the shortlist for the 2023 Woollahra Digital Literary Award! Up until 18 November, readers can vote for their favourite shortlisted piece. Please feel free to read pieces in the shortlist (https://www.woollahra.nsw.gov.au/.../Digital-literary-award) and vote for your favourite here: https://culturecounts.cc/s/77nrrJ/

My golden shovel after Fiona Apple and Apple-esque people, from The Galway Review 9 Anthology. Thanks to poet Stuart Barnes for introducing me to this new poetic form thru his poem "The Morning Fog (A Golden Shovel after Kate Bush)". No thanks to The Recording Academy for inexplicably overlooking Apple's new album Fetch the Bolt Cutters for an Album of the Year nod at this year's Grammys.

My ekphrastic poem 'Bolt Cutters', and the accompanying visual writing prompt, from the January 2021 edition of Visual Verse

Image by Michael Easterling

@fionaapplerocks

https://visualverse.org/submissions/bolt-cutters/

My poem inspired by Fiona Apple’s brilliant track ‘Under the Table’, as featured in Stereo Stories: https://www.stereostories.com/under-the-table-by-fiona-apple-poem-by-michael-leach/