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A J Dalton, www.ajdalton.eu

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Friend to goblins, but not on the furniture! New #poetry book, Green Man Ascendant: https://amzn.eu/d/glZYbnO. Buy a copy for yr bookshelf & impress visitors (u get visitors, right?). What do u mean u don't have a bookshelf?!

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Favorite maritime drinking songs of the miraculous alcoholics has just been published. Cool cover, with a blurb from yours truly on the back, init. #poetry #fantasy

08.02.2026 10:32 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Superstring by AJ Dalton Trollbreath Magazine
Background is a splash of red, yellow, and magenta light with white outline hexagons

Superstring by AJ Dalton Trollbreath Magazine Background is a splash of red, yellow, and magenta light with white outline hexagons

Free Fiction Friday Poetry! @ajdalton1.bsky.social
magazine.trollbreath.com/superstring/

30.01.2026 13:01 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

4) "Dawn, the Humor Bot" by @vedavilliers.bsky.social

radonjournal.com/issue9/dawn%2C-the-humor-bot

5) "Review of the Pre-Anthropocene Museum" by @ajdalton1.bsky.social

radonjournal.com/issue9/review-of-the-pre-anthropocene-museum

15.01.2026 00:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A Time-traveller’s Guide to Speculative Poetry: PartΒ Two,Β Fantasy – Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association

Just had an article published on the history of fantasy poetry. You can read it for free here: sfpoetry.org/wp/2025/12/3... #fantasy #poetry

02.01.2026 09:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Robert Silverberg's collected short stories now published, with back cover blurb written by yours truly, don't you know. #sciencefiction #silverberg www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-multitud...

24.12.2025 10:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The new issue of Worlds of IF hits in a few days. This is going to be the third issue since the relaunch by Starship Sloane Publishing of this iconic science fiction magazine. It will feature a new text by yours truly!

worldsofifmagazine.com

09.11.2025 11:23 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Search Results for β€œdalton” – Eternal Haunted Summer pagan songs & tales

Yaaay! Just had a poem published in Eternal Haunted Summer magazine. You can read 'Banshee' for free here: eternalhauntedsummer.com//?s=dalton&s... #scifi #poetry #fantasy

21.12.2025 16:16 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Worlds of IF: Science Fiction #179 Worlds of IF: Science Fiction #179 [Publishing, Starship Sloane, Sloane, Justin T. O'Conor, Garnier, Jean-Paul L., Pomarède, Daniel, Silverberg, Robert, Pérez, Juan Manuel, Pennington, Bruce, Plumridge, Marianne, Bergmann, F. J.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Worlds of IF: Science Fiction #179

#sciencefiction New issue of Worlds of IF now out! www.amazon.com/Worlds-IF-Sc...

04.12.2025 18:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

30 Strange Topography by Mir Rainbird
49  Whittled and Burned by Nico Martinez Nocito
70 Aurora, Apricot by Devan Barlow
92 Superstring by AJ Dalton

30 Strange Topography by Mir Rainbird 49 Whittled and Burned by Nico Martinez Nocito 70 Aurora, Apricot by Devan Barlow 92 Superstring by AJ Dalton

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Subscribe now for the Dec. 1st Issue! Magazine.trollbreath.com
Mir Rainbird, @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social @devanbarlow.bsky.social @ajdalton1.bsky.social

26.11.2025 15:48 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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07.11.2025 16:11 πŸ‘ 11703 πŸ” 4500 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 27
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Just had my article on the history of sci-fi poetry published with the SFPA, covering the work of the Big Three (Clarke, Asimov and Heinlein): sfpoetry.org/wp/2025/10/2...
#sciencefiction #poetry

25.10.2025 07:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Just in time 4 xmas: Green Man Ascendant. This book's perfect as a door wedge, a missile to hurl @ enemies, a coaster for yr coffee cup & er…ooo, 4 reading maybe. The cool cover art's by the legendary Bruce Pennington!
#poetry #scifibooks #fantasy

18.10.2025 13:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dalton-The Lament of Hector Issue 15

Aha! Just had a poem titled β€˜Hector’s Lament’ published on the Empyrean Literary Magazine website. You can read it for free here: www.empyreanliterarymagazine.com/dalton-the-l... #poetry @the-empyrean-bsky.bsky.social

07.09.2025 07:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Girl Who Was Silver: Danger on the Other Side The Girl Who Was Silver: Danger on the Other Side [Gerrold, David, Eggleton, Bob, Dalton, A J] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Girl Who Was Silver: Danger on the Other Side

Happy to say that the legendary David Gerrold (who wrote the Tribbles episode from the original Star Trek series) has just had his novella The Girl Who Was Silver published. What’s more, the foreword was written by one A J Dalton! #sci-fi #StarshipSloane

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FMS259VG

23.08.2025 08:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
You searched for dalton - Sci Phi Journal

#scifi #fantasy #poetry
Aaaand I've just had a cool article, titled 'Arthur C. Clarke's Science Fiction Started With His Poetry...And It Then Influenced Asimov...Sort Of', published in the prestigious Sci Phi Journal. You can read it for free here: www.sciphijournal.org?s=dalton.

28.06.2025 09:32 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Uppagus

β€˜Perfected’ – new A J Dalton poem available #poetry #scif #fantasy
Eh up! Just had a poem published on Uppagus. You can read it for free here: uppagus.com/poems/dalton...

21.06.2025 07:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ways to get yourself
banned on Bluesky
number #vss365
British euphemisms
for 'urinating'

Drain the dragon
Syphon the python
Point Percy at the porcelain
Piddle/Piss/Pee

Shake hands with the wife’s best friend

I need a Jimmy Riddle
Dennis needs draining
I need a Jack Dash
I'm going for a #slash

14.06.2025 19:25 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#vss365 #slash #poetry

14.06.2025 21:54 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Trollbreath Magazine
Issue 4 Summer, 2025 
P.A. Cornell 
Alyssa Gonzalez
Casey Aimer
Rickard Magahiz

Image is a cat looming over red-hatted gnomes as they collect apples

Trollbreath Magazine Issue 4 Summer, 2025 P.A. Cornell Alyssa Gonzalez Casey Aimer Rickard Magahiz Image is a cat looming over red-hatted gnomes as they collect apples

Cover Reveal!!! Our Summer Issue drops on June 1st
Subscribe now at magazine.trollbreath.com

05.05.2025 11:07 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 6
Big News! - Michael Victor Bowman I have had my first poem accepted for publication! My first one! And it was selected as Editors choice, too! Five Ways To Murder Your Mentor will be published by Star*Line in the New Year. I’m very pl...

#poetry news! I've got my FIRST published #poem! It's in the next issue of Star*Line magazine. And as if that wasn't good enough, it's also been selected for Editor's choice!

Right now this is me = 😁

You can read it at the link in the blog post, below.

michaelvictorbowman.com/the-blog/big...

15.01.2025 19:22 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Whimper by Michael Victor Bowman

Whimper by Michael Victor Bowman

#vss365 #prompt #whimper

21.05.2025 20:33 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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#vss365 #speaker #poetry #poem #horror

07.06.2025 19:01 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Metaspace | Dissident Voice As Putin politely nods movers and shakers make cocktails and circulate amidst chit chat bang bang and the child catcher with his twitching nose joining elite villains poolside and ringside watching on...

β€˜Metaspace’ – new A J Dalton poem available #poetry #fantasy

Heads up: new poem published on Dissident Voice here: dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/meta...

24.05.2025 07:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
MERCY AND THE MERCENARY | Heroic Fantasy Quarterly

β€˜Mercy and the Mercenary’ – new A J Dalton poem

Heads up: you can read my new poem, β€˜Mercy and the Mercenary’, in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly for free here: www.heroicfantasyquarterly.com?p=4415 Hurrah! #fantasy #poetry

17.05.2025 07:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Mobius: The Journal of Social Change

β€˜A Public Safety Announcement’ – new A J Dalton poem available #fantasy #poetry

Let there be much cheering! I’ve just had a poem published in Mobius: The Journal of Social Change. You can read β€˜A Public Safety Announcement’ for free here: mobiusmagazine.com/poetry/publi...

03.05.2025 07:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Memoir of Magickal Failure | Lorelei Signal Poem

β€˜A Memoir of Magickal Failure’ – new A J Dalton poem available
And lo! A new A J Dalton poem was published in The Lorelei Signal. You can read it for free here: www.loreleisignal.com/a-memoir-of-... #fantasy #poetry

27.04.2025 08:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Home - The Stygian Lepus Go to current issue 38 Weeks by Paul W. La BellaA Penny Saved by Dennis McFaddenAmbivalence by RitziAnd On the Story Spins – Part One by S.J. TownendBeneath by A.J. DaltonKiss of Death by Avery Hunter...

β€˜Beneath’ – new A J Dalton poem available!
Heads up! Just had a new poem published, this time in The Stygian Lepus Magazine. You can read β€˜Beneath’ for free here: stygianlepus.com?_kx=7o_31C69... #poetry #horror

21.04.2025 08:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Black Petals Issue #111 Spring, 2025

β€˜The Nekraverse’, β€˜Underspace’ and β€˜Unseen’ – three new A J Dalton poems...
Well, you wait for ages and then you get three all at once (like goals by Leicester FC). Anyway, you can see the latest ones for free on the Black Petals site here: blackpetalsks.tripod.com/blackpetalsi... #poetry #horror

13.04.2025 09:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dwarfish Honour byΒ A J Dalton Would you measure a warrior’s worth by the rewards they’d earned or the trophies they’d spurned, by the number they’d slain or the many they’d spared; praps you’re persuaded by the songs...

And this week’s poem, β€˜Dwarfish Honour’, is free to read on the very cool Disabled Tales site: www.disabledtales.co.uk/poetry/dwarf... #fantasy #poetry

12.04.2025 08:40 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Fare Thee Well - James Gunn's Ad Astra Soon, we’ll have to leave the planet To find another home We fiddled while the climate burned Like Nero watching Rome.

Huzzah! Just had my poem titled 'Fare Thee Well' published by James Gunn's Ad Astra. You can read it for free here: www.adastrasf.com/fare-thee-we.... #scifi #poetry

05.04.2025 08:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0