This is the Sunday post I prepared then forgot to load.
The news so far is that I had a tanka accepted on Saturday and a Haibun accepted tonight (by an editors who has been known to reject me, repeatedly, in the past). That is four acceptances from eleven submissions and I am feeling happy. Editors in Japanese style poetry are far more industrious than regular poetry editors, though I suspect that they aren’t hit by the same avalanche of hopeful poets. I’m still feeling slightly comatose after the efforts of getting all eleven submissions out, so sorry I haven’t been reading other blogs.
Talking of editors, one replied within the day and the other three averaged about four days. This is good, even by the standards of the genre. I expect they will all be in within two weeks, leaving just the two traditional magazines to reply. One will take a couple of months if they run to form and the other tells me that if I don’t hear from them after 12 weeks I can assume I have been rejected.
You can see why I am more enthusiastic about writing Japanese style poetry, can’t you?
Meanwhile, in pursuit of other things I have been adding to my store of general knowledge. The body of Napoleon II, son of Napoleon I and cousin of Napoleon III was originally buried in Austria, where he had lived in exile with his mother since the defeat of his father. He reigned twice, once for two days after his father’s initial defeat and once for 15 days after Waterloo. To be fair, his father’s wish for him to succeed was never going to be granted by the allies, and at the age of three he wan’t in much of a position to dispute the decision to depose the House of Bonaparte. He died young, in 1832 and remained in peace until 1940 when Adolf Hitler stepped in and ordered that the remains should be sent to Paris to be interred in the tomb of his father. His heart and viscera remain in Vienna, which is a tradition of the Hapsburgs.
At least the treatment of his body parts has been more dignified than that of some of his father’s parts.
Add my congratulations to the others.
I will. Thank you.
Congrats and I hope they treat your heart well when the time comes.
I expect it will find a home in a jar and be used as a warning to future generations. 🙂
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Congratulations on the acceptances, Simon! Sounds like you are back in the saddle and producing more good work.
There are articles on Wikipedia I never would have guessed existed.
Yes, I am often surprised by Wiki. 🙂
Well done!
Thank you. 🙂
Wonderful to have so much work accepted! What a gruesome thing to have parts of a body interred in different places.
It has happened, for various reasons, to many historical characters. It seems very strange these days. Thomas Hardy is an example. Ashes in Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey, heart in Dorset. There is a grisly story about that.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/getting-to-the-heart-of-thomas-hardy-1306968.html
Congrats.
Thank you Derrick.