Call for poetry for a new short verse, haiku, tanka, short haibun anthology entitled C.2.2. : Poets may submit up to 5 haiku, tanka, short haibun, free-verse along with a pen name. The anthology will be subtitled short-verse, and we are looking for poems between 1 to 8 lines in length.

“Between loss of identity and loss of name, it's surprising, how when you are referred to by a number, you hurt.” Prisoner KM5451

Yet To Be Named Free Press  

is putting together an anthology entitled C.2.2. on the following themes:

•       loss of identity and/or name
•       mental health issues
•       social issues
•       physical health issues
•       unsentimental love

C.2.2. Editors: 

Brendan Slater and Alan Summers

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Submissions Email Address:Please submit your work to: subs@yettobenamedfreepress.org 

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Poets may submit up to 5 haiku, tanka, short haibun, free-verse along with a pen name.* 

The anthology will be subtitled under short-verse, and we are looking for poems between 1 to 8 lines in length.

Deadline:  30th November 2012.

Send us your darkest and/or most honest work to be considered for the anthology, alongside a pen name (pseudonym)   

We are looking for modern experimental short-verse only.

Submissions Email:
Please submit your work to: subs@yettobenamedfreepress.org

The anthology will contain around 200 poems and will be published in early 2013.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard.
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word.
The coward does it with a kiss

From the Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde published under the pen name/pseudonym of c.3.3. (1898).  It was only until the 7th printing that Wilde’s name was actually revealed.

There is a nod to Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, where Bassanio asks: "Do all men kill the things they do not love?"

And this appears on Oscar Wilde's tomb;

And alien tears will fill for him,
… [a]nd outcasts always mourn.

*Only pen names will be included in the anthology but individual poems may be posted on personal blogs or other social media with the poet's real name.

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