Darkly Told: An Audio Chapbook

by Alicia Cole

Darkly Told, an audio chapbook, collects a series of darkly fantastical and horrific poetry by P&H co-founder Alicia Cole. These eight poems collect works from Mythic Delirium, Punchnel's, and Phantom Kangaroo, among other publications, with new and reworked poems. From the witch's oven to interstellar genocide, Darkly Told will bring your heart surging to a dark and gruesome one where everything sweet is rotten, everything sacred really profane. Original poetry and concept by award-nominated author Alicia Cole. Poetry recordings by award-winning author C.S.E. Cooney. Original musical score by electronic futurist duo Memory Splice. Original artwork by Sara Wilson.

CD-ROM

Published January 1, 2015

About the author

"There is a lot to discover in Darkly Told. It doesn’t offer immediate answers, nor is it meant to do so, but it will repay careful listening. Hopefully, this chapbook will be successful enough to prompt Alicia Cole to make a few more. Fans are better off for its appearance." - Dead Reckonings No. 18

"A tour-de-force of the world from a very different mind. I am reminded of Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury." - Jim Bennett - "Among the Aspens", Torn Pages Anthology

"Ms. Cole's literary poem flows like an old ballad with an ostinato of "one stone."" - Songs of Eretz Poetry Review - "Counting Stones", Electric Velocipede

"I don't pretend to understand “The Knowing” by Alicia Cole, one of my favorite poets, but there is something unspeakably beautiful about the language. Listen and just let it wash over you...it's in the process of changing me." - Amazing Stories' Poetry Planet Review by Diane Severson - "The Knowing", Liminality

Member - Codex, SFPA

Longform Fiction Pick of the Week - "Ringing True", Split Lip Magazine

Honorable Mention - "River Stages" - The Jane Lumley Prize 2016, Hermeneutic Chaos

Recommended Reading - "The Language of Flowers", Niteblade 22

Feature Story - "Coffee and Cornbread", Space Squid

Cover Poem - "The Language of Flowers", Niteblade 22

Best of the Net Finalist 2013 - "Roadside, US 64", Eclectica Magazine

Dwarf Stars Nominee 2013 and 2014 - "If Sappho Studied Egyptology", Abyss & Apex (13); "Moral", Goblin Fruit (13); "Where the Rabbits Run, Near the Shore", inkscrawl (13); "Song for Otter", Eternal Haunted Summer (14)

Editor's Choice - Star*Line 40.3, Star*Line 35.3

Writer's Residencies

Lillian E. Smith Center; Clayton, GA 2014
SAFTA's Firefly Farms, Knoxville, TN 2018

Interviews

https://www.splitlipmagazine.com/sing...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/us.blast...