I'm slightly surprised and thoroughly delighted that that august institution, the NSW School Magazine, has bought another Cat Poem from me - a longer one this time. That makes one cat poem already in Star*Line, and two forthcoming in the School Magazine.

Oddly, it's NOT one of the, ahem, three cat poems that I read at Continuum 8 (which was a marvellously warm and friendly Con, and all praise to the organisers). I was one of four people reading, in a batch including Kelly Link; I'd been deputed to read something suitable for kids, and I wasn't all that enthused about the idea of reading MY prose after Kelly's prose. Cat poems seemed the perfect answer, given that all sf fans (except, apparently, Felicity Gray) love cats, plus something suitably horrific if there weren't any kids in the room (and there weren't, so I finished with the icky squishy poem that I wrote ealrier this year for Keira). And people (notably Janeen Webb and the aforementioned Kelly Link) were surprisingly nice about the poems.

Must write more cat poems. Where's that muse???