Other Worlds

Sea to Sky Review June 2024

For the Spring issue of Sea to Sky Review, asked for submissions on the theme of ‘other worlds’ and writers did not disappoint! Godzilla describes a monster from another world but the reader suspects our poet is actually telling a story closer to home. "Everyone wants to be first to discover anything breathing that behaves better than our globe mates," explains the speaker in Alpha Male Marian, and then despairs at the limitations of reality. Pale Child is a tale unfolding under a sky "like a canopy of floating crows extending their oily black wings." In Three Tiers our other worlds take on the guise of home. Drowning in Sky settles the reader in a cabin next to a pot of boiling stew and sealed in by fog. Delicate poems infused with love begin with Light, Another Light and a Different Light and continue in a Mother Writes to her Daughter. The Broken Bell tells of a world that has lost its heart and If I Hold My Breath takes us on an introspective journey through the poet's world - "Between me and a crevice, a flower is growing. The crevice is the future. / The flower is still irrelevant. "

Our three photographers have treated us to their amazing art once again and you’ll find them shared throughout this issue. Our feature gallery from Yvonne Hanson is from a trip she took to the other world of Los Angeles in October 2023.

This is the 11th issue of the Sea to Sky Review which began in April 2018, weathered a pandemic, a divorce, two moves and the death of two beloved pets. It’s a thrill to be able to bring this issue forward for the poets, the artists, and the magazine itself.

https://www.seatoskyreview.ca/june-2024-vol-5-issue-1