#shompole

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Photographer Helps Build Waterhole to Capture Incredible Photos of African Wildlife Using Camera Traps - Kenya’s Shompole Wilderness Camp

Hyena

Photographer: Will Burrard-Lucas

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...traveling 💕

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[89rooms]

Home as savagery, as heart in lover’s mouth, as ritual sacrifice, as tradition, as tenderness.

N. L. Shompole - 'Home,' published in Kingdoms in the Wild

[lifeinpoetry]

I believed you when you said you were looking something deeper I believed you when you used bones to carve out craters in my heart I believed you when you collected my blood in buckets labeled storm water I believed you when you threw it out for dogs.

— N. L. Shompole, from “.danger of idols,” Anatomy of Surrender: Twelve Names for December, Select Poems

[quotesandstardust]

Because, because the truth is no one can save you but you, because the truth is we either survive the catastrophe or we drown.

N.L. Shompole, Lace Bone Beast: Poems & Other Fairytales for Wicked Girls (The Historian)

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[Dis]Connected presents poems and short stories about connection wrapped up in a most unique exercise in creative writing. Follow along as your favorite poets connect with each other; offering their poetry to the next person who tells a story based on the concept presented to them. With poetry, stories, and art, this is a one-of-a-kind presentation of connection and collaboration by Alicia Cook, Tyler Knott Gregson, Courtney Peppernell, Noah Milligan, Komal Kapoor, N.L. Shompole, Caitlyn Siehl, K.Y. Robinson, Raquel Franco, and Wilder Poetry

I received this ARC from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

One afternoon at school, I played a game with my friends: one person would write a poem and the next person had to add to it. It was fun to see our different styles and interpretations. This anthology is somewhat similar.  In [Dis]connected, each of the ten authors write a poem and another author writes a story based on it.

I liked this collection, though I think the latter half of the short stories was superior.

“Wrapped in Distance” by Komal Kapoor is the crown jewel of this anthology. The protagonist is relatable and dynamic.

I like the writing style of the majority of the poems and prose. Most of the protagonists are interesting.  There’s a variety of genres here, from fantasy to magical realism to romance. Since part of the fun of anthology is not knowing what comes next, I won’t discuss the plot of any story in particular. But some of the themes include grief, gender roles, and disillusionment.  

A few stories resemble first chapters of books. These feel incomplete because there’s no resolution or growth at the end. Interesting concepts and characters are squandered.

The weakest story of the collection is “What the Wild Gave Me” by Wilder.  None of the characters are interesting. Despite the short length, this story dragged because of slow pacing and pointless scenes. The protagonist’s realization at the end of the story comes out of the blue, because her motivations are vague.

As a content warning, the story “Make Choices a Bit Crooked” by Noah Milligan contains a lengthy, detailed description of a medical procedure gone wrong.

Despite a few weaker offerings, the rest of the stories are of a high caliber. I recommend this anthology.

Rating: Four Stars

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Review: Disconnected by Courtney Peppernell; Tyler Knott Gregson; Noah Milligan; Caitlyn Siehl; Raquel Franco; Wilder; Alicia Cook; Komal Kapoor; KY Robinson; NL Shompole.

This highly-anticipated second volume of poetry and short stories combines the forces of some of the most popular poets of 2019.

I love this series of books. How one writer can create an idea, and then another to come along read that idea and make something new from it makes for somerthing great and this book is certainly proof, straight from the beginning of the book. ‘Strangers Tomorrow’ by NL Shompole, will break your heart. Inspired by the work of Gregson before her in this book this story takes science fiction into how to deal with grief exquisitely and makes for a marvel in this book. 

In combination with these stories, we have poems that connect the stories, taking lines from the poem to create the story. Poems by Noah Milligan like ‘Ghost Stories’ in this book are harrowing but important and make for perfect stops in between these stories. Jumping from ‘Ghost Stories’ we have ‘Ghosted’ which is the most honest and raw and tragic love story that just ends so well and I love it for it and thougn the two are so very different the way they use words to connect the two is done so well.

A book I asked for due to my love of the work of Tyler Knott Gregson, this book has opened my eyes to a whole new range of talented poets who I need to go and look up as soon as possible. If you love poems and like having your heartbroken in a literary sense, this is the book for you. Even the recommendations at the end of the book - Jade Homa’s ‘Athena’ at the back is a little treasure that ends this book beautifully. 

(I received an ARC from Netgalley for review, thanks Netgalley, you did good!). 

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HOME by: N.L. Shompole

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pick a card– which book speaks to your soul?

You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important.

—Conversations with James Baldwin.

this is my love letter to all the bookworms in the tarot community— pick a pile & i'll give you a list of genres + book suggestions carrying important messages to you.

I. THE FIRST

To the daydreamers and the escapists; to the ones that need to rest before following what you need follow.

RELEVANT GENRES & CONCEPTS– fiction in general; romance; fantasy; fairytale; poetry; ‘happy ever after’ endings; hopeful endings; fantasy; magic; dreamy.

AUTHORS – Ursula K. Le Guin; Louise Gluck; Mary Oliver; Jane Austen.

BOOKS FOR YOU–

‘The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life’s Work at 72 – Molly Peacock'

‘Good Bones – Maggie Smith’

‘If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho – Translation by Anne Carson’

‘Owls and Other Fantasies – Mary Oliver’

‘Dog Songs – Mary Oliver’

‘Emma – Jane Austen’

‘Howl’s Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones’

‘The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’

‘Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather’

‘Sonnets from the Portuguese – Elizabeth Barrett Browning’

‘The Hawk and the Dove – Penelope Wilcock’

‘The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright’

‘The Ink Dark Moon – Ono no Komachi & Izumi Shikibu’

‘Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll’

‘The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf’

‘Little Women – Louisa May Alcott’

‘Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery’

‘Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins – Emma Donoghue’

II. THE SECOND

For the ones that carry the ache to learn and know everything; to the ones bored with life's commodities & seriousness. For the ones that question everything around them – as they should do.

You do not need to fit in. Don't change yourself for other people. If they want to see you this way, then become the proud witch in the edge of the woods.

RELEVANT GENRES & CONCEPTS– books on 'niche' knowledge; science; philosophy; true crime; drama; scandalous romances; adventure, magical realism; YA thriller & horror; comedy & sardonic comedy; ‘controversial’/'weird' books.

AUTHORS– Carmen Maria Machado, Kate Moore, Grady Hendrix.

BOOKS FOR YOU–

‘My Sister, The Serial Killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite'

‘The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales – Oliver Sacks'

‘St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves – Karen Russell'

‘Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife – Mary Roach’

‘The Hitchhiker Guide to Galaxy – Douglas Adams'

‘Inferno – Dante Alighieri'

'Magic for Beginners – Kelly Link'

‘Lace Bone Beast: Poems & Other Fairytales for Wicked Girls – N.L. Shompole'

‘Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found – Frances Larson’

'The Woman They Could Not Silence – Kate Moore'

‘The Dictionary of Lost Words – Pip Williams'

‘She Kills Me: The True Stories of History’s Deadliest Women – Jennifer Wright’

‘Anatomy: A Love Story – Dana Schwartz'

‘Pretty Dead Queens – Alexa Donne'

‘I’m Glad My Mom Died – Jennette McCurdy'

'Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus – Bill Wasik'

‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina – Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’

III. THE THIRD

You need to put your sadness somewhere. If you can't, remember that someone has done it before – and transformed it into a story. Let the words you'll read be the resting place for whatever you're feeling right now; let yourself remember that not even your pain is lonely in this world.

RELEVANT GENRES AND CONCEPTS— poetry; gothic horror; thrillers; murder mysteries; tragedies; cathartic stories; biographies.

AUTHORS– Shirley Jackson, Osamu Dazai, Clarice Lispector, Sylvia Plath.

BOOKS FOR YOU—

'The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion'

‘The Dead – James Joyce'

‘What The Living Do – Marie Howe'

‘The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector'

‘Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector’

‘Some of Us Did Not Die – June Jordan'

Somewhere Towards the End – Diana Athill'

‘We Have Always Lived in The Castle – Shirley Jackson'

'Heaven: A Novel – Mieko Kawakami'

'Journal of a Solitude – May Sarton'

'Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte'

'Grief is the Thing with Feathers – Max Porter'

‘Carrie – Stephen King'

'Of Dogs and Walls – Yuko Tsushima'

'Frankenstein – Mary Shelley'

'The Stepping Off Place – Cameron Kelly'

'Letters to Milena – Franz Kafka'

‘Beloved – Toni Morrison'

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Anyway, I highly, highly recommend everyone read Lace Bone Beast by N.L. Shompole. It’s a really short poetry collection and oh my god its so amazing. I haven't seen anyone talk about it at all on tumblr and they should.

‘Milk and Honey’, and ‘the princess saves herself in this one’ get most of the attention she it comes to poetry, but this collection really is wonderful and more people need to read it. NOW!

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Photographer Helps Build Waterhole to Capture Incredible Photos of African Wildlife Using Camera Traps - Kenya’s Shompole Wilderness Camp

Baboons

Photographer: Will Burrard-Lucas

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January dawns, stalactites & ice white skies. The bone-cold chill of dusk turns me wolf. Bloody mouthed, hungry.

lamb for slaughter & other fairy tales for wicked girls By N.L. Shompole, published by Rising Phoenix Review

[lifeinpoetry]

Home as savagery, as heart in lover’s mouth, as ritual sacrifice, as tradition, as tenderness.

N. L. Shompole, from “Home,” published in Kingdoms in the Wild

[quotesandstardust]

Don't you see how weathered I am, how tired I am of begging?

N.L. Shompole, Lace Bone Beast: Poems & Other Fairytales for Wicked Girls (Salt & Shadows) 

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[aanakin]

Hey, I just saw that Good Omens edit with the quote 'decades between us have not softened the longing' and I was wondering where it was from? I googled it but nothing came up and I'd love to know where it's from

It's from Lace Bone Beast: Poems & Other Fairytales for Wicked Girls by N.L. Shompole.