{"id":209,"date":"2021-03-28T15:31:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T14:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2022-08-03T22:15:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T21:15:57","slug":"two-folklore-poems-in-gramarye-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/28\/two-folklore-poems-in-gramarye-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Two folklore poems in Gramarye Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of my <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Y%C5%8Dkai\" target=\"_blank\">y\u014dkai<\/a><\/em> poems pop up in Issue 18 of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chi.ac.uk\/humanities\/public-humanities\/literary-and-cultural-narrative\/chichester-centre-fairy-tales-fantasy-and-speculative-fiction\/gramarye-journal\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Gramarye<\/em><\/a>, the journal of the University of Chichester&#8217;s Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy &amp; Speculative Fiction. <\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/gramarye18-e1616941949444.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of Gramarye issue 18. Snow White is sat on a leafy ledge in a red and white dress, with roses in her long, dark hair. She is reaching down into a basket of apples held by an old peasant woman in a brown dress with red shawl.\" class=\"wp-image-889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/gramarye18-e1616941949444.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/gramarye18-e1616941949444-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption><em>Image courtesy of the Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><p>I want to praise the journal on several counts:<\/p><p>1) I really appreciate that they blend academic articles with poetry, fiction and illustration. Given the subject matter, this works really well, but it&#8217;s quite a rare thing. Not being a professional researcher, I&#8217;ve never been published in a peer-reviewed journal before, and I&#8217;m grateful for the chance to smuggle poetry into an academic setting.<\/p><p>2) It&#8217;s gorgeous. A beautifully-produced, colour-illustrated celebration of the imagination, <em>Gramarye<\/em> is a truly lovely thing. Anyone who&#8217;s read the Fairy Books would appreciate the artwork the team have commissioned. Additionally, the work is responsive without being over-literal, as can happen with poetry, so the two forms complement each other without tussling.<\/p><p>3) Having my poetry appraised and edited by more than one reviewer was a rare and valuable experience. The reviewers were thorough and open-minded; they met the poems halfway, but also suggested subtle, insightful changes that helped enormously. I really appreciate the time they took to go through, understand and improve these pieces.<\/p><p>Thank you to <em>Gramarye<\/em> for including my work &#8211; I can&#8217;t wait to read the next issue.<\/p><p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chi.ac.uk\/humanities\/public-humanities\/literary-and-cultural-narrative\/chichester-centre-fairy-tales-fantasy-and-speculative-fiction\/gramarye-journal\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Gramarye<\/em> homepage<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sussexfolktalecentre.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChiCentreFFSF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Follow the Centre on Twitter<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you like folklore and fairytales, critical thinking and art, investigate the journal Gramarye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,100,93],"tags":[129,128,95,126,130,4,127],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazines","category-poetry","category-poetry-projects","tag-fairy-tales","tag-fairytales","tag-folklore","tag-folktales","tag-gramarye","tag-poetry","tag-publication","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}