I’ve been a fan of Gaia Holmes’s poetry since the publication of her third (and most recent) collection, Where the Road Runs Out, available from Comma Press here, which is among my very favourites of the last five years, if not all time. I’m pretty sure that it I bought on the recommendation of a typically warm-hearted review by John Foggin on his blog, here. I subsequently bought Gaia’s two earlier collections, which are both very good too. To paraphrase Orwell, all poets’ voices are unique, but some, like Gaia’s, are more unique than others’.
So I was really pleased to see today from Gaia’s blog that she’s uploaded a recording of her short story, ‘Below the Thunders of the Upper Deep’, to her Soundcloud page, here. It’s a terrific listen.
Even better is the fact that there are also loads of other atmospheric recordings, interspersed by music, which she made two/three years ago, of her (and other poets’) poems. I particularly like how, each time, Gaia paired one of her own lovely poems with somebody else’s to provide intriguing comparisons and contrasts.
On Gaia Holmes
9 responses to “On Gaia Holmes”
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Where is she blogging now? I only have https://gaiaholmes.wordpress.com in my feeds – last post 2021
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Yes, that’s still the web address, Dave: https://gaiaholmes.wordpress.com/2023/07/17/the-spiders-web-of-fiction/
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Oh, I didn’t scroll past the pinned post… and the blog’s RSS feed somehow stopped updating, which recently happened to at least one other WordPress.com blog in my feeds – oh dear.
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I’m so glad you posted this. Just listened to the short story about the kraken – fantastic!!
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Thanks, Zoe – isn’t it just!
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Just bought the first poetry collection too!
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Fab!
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Hi Matthew. Thank you so much for sharing my work x Gaia
Matthew Paul 
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