Festival Submissions Call – ‘Isobar of Ash’ by Yvonne Salmon
Festival Submissions Call
We are beyond excited to share with you our selected poets from our ‘Festival’ themed submissions call, ahead of our 2026 Launceston Poetry Festival.
Starting today, we’ll be featuring one poem each day, along with a spotlight on its author. Follow along, and don’t forget to book your tickets to the Launceston Poetry Festival to hear the selected poems read aloud by the poets.
by Yvonne Salmon
Tin parish at barometric dusk,
where Nickanan worries the seam of it.
On plank and palm. Knock.
A hinge thinking in frost.
Shriven tallow front advancing:
treacle weather braids hymn to grease.
Nick: a cut in the hour,
anan: a moment of misrule,
straw Jack dragged, hedge to green.
Give flour. Give fat.
Give the last yolk’s flare
before Lent tallies bone.
We will spend it on noise.
Poet Bio
Yvonne Salmon is a writer, artist and filmmaker. She directs The Alchemical Landscape project. Her poetry has featured in The Martello Journal, Frogmore Papers and Ver Prize Anthology. Her study of queer sixties literature ‘Certain Circles’ was published by Bloomsbury in The 1960s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction (Tew et al eds).
Instagram: @salmonstudioarchive