Quick and Quirky Questions With Abigail Ottley (a interview for Autumn Voices)

A prose poem written to console me in my grief and to celebrate the memory of my beloved Percy Dog, lost to me 30th October, 2023.

Considering Tomorrow in Issue 1

The occasion of the interview was my acting as one of the poetry readers for the 2023 Hysteria Writing Competition. 

An Interview About Me and My Writing 

Interview: I was one of the judges for the Hysteria Writing Competition

Written and posted as tribute to a long lost best friend. x

What Estefania Told Me About Angels

You can read here what the judge, Katrina Naomi, said about my prose poem 'Aged 29 she bought her first running shoes'

Report of my success in being placed third in the International Patricia Eschen Poetry Prize

‘A survivor dreams a new career’ exhibits both an impressive sense of voice and linguistic precision in a most original prose poem. The movement and balance between the two paragraphs is deftly handled, and the ending imperative is perfectly judged.'

The International Plaza Prose Poetry Prize (judge Carrie Etter) The Report of my Second Place Prize

In Conversation With Emily

'To market, to market to buy a fat pig' and 'I worry so much I can't sleep'

The text and a recording of my winning flash/prose poem piece for the Wildfire Words 150. You will need to scroll down because the winning piece was kept until last. 

Remember The Air

This prose poem (on p. 122) explores the thoughts and feelings of Juana 'La Loca' who should have been the Queen of Spain.

Juana Muses on “Madness” and the Condition of Her Soul on the Occasion of Her 75th Birthday 

My prose poem written as a tribute to my beloved Percy Dog.

Considering Tomorrow

3 Poems appearing in a very beautiful special Cornish edition of Inkfish magazine.

Kennack Sands, 1956 / If Anyone Asks / Billy Pilgrim Gets Stuck IN Time

Night House

Elegy

Two of my 'Nana Tilly poems'. Nana Tilly was Matilda Jane Ottley (later Tallett) my beloved paternal grandmother.

Life is What You Make It / Home Fires

Bull Male Sleeping

Before She Dies

A poem about the days leading up to my father's death.

Last Supper

A poem from my collection 'Out of Eden' due to be published by Yaffle's Nest in May, 2025

Widows Walk (poem)

A prose poem, one of three I have written, about The Maid. I like to write about women in history.

Cromwell interviews the Maid of Kent all the while conspiring against her

A prose poem written in memory of a man I cared deeply for a very long time ago.

Oh but it hurts

My prose poem about the house where I spent the happiest years of my childhood. My Nana Tilly, whose house this was, features in many of my poems.

My Grandmother's House

This poem was selected for a feature focusing on fear.

Exposure

A little ballad with a maritime flavour selected for the Christmas feature at Poetry Wivenhoe. 

The Galleon Moon

Ink, Sweat & Tears 12 Days of Christmas Feature 

Abigail Ottley

Selected work

Projects