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Short Stories

Nothing to Tell. (New Writing Scotland ,Jul 2016) Robot. A shorter version, from the Design in Action Summit: Ubiquity: The Journal of Pervasive Media, v4 n1-2 pp109-111, Jun 2015
Tell me the Way to Go Home; Mother of God; 2014 10thAugust, StoryShop, Edinburgh Book festival. Fire with Fire Shortlist (last 10) for Doire Press Fiction and Poetry International Chapbook Competition. Published Dec 2013.
Gnomes Write This, volume 6, issue iii, 3.24.2012
Robot CS4FN – ComputerScienceForFun
Granite University with Morag Burgon-Lyon, Greg Michaelson, Judy Robertson Swans (In Textualities)
Pictures at an Exhibition (New Writing Scotland 26, Jul 2008)

Pamphlets

Queen of Infinite Space published by Maytree

Queen of Infinite Space by Ruth Aylett chronicles a life filled with promises, passion and love. A collection in which the author takes the reader from the empty carless streets of her childhood, the simple pleasures of family life to the rigours of parenthood and the inevitability of old age

Pretty in Pink, published by 4Word

Now also on Amazon

“Aylett is a poet who thinks with the precision of the scientist and writes with the grace of the artist. This collection, masquerading under an ironic title, explores gender and gendering. Though not without humour, many of these honest, moving, often provocative poems have a darker edge – touching on the difficulties of motherhood, acceptance, mental health, silencing of women, even rape and domestic murder.”

Christine de Luca

Handfast – A Poetry Duo With Beth McDonough, pub. Mothers’ Milk, May 2016

Now available from the authors or on Amazon

“This beautifully designed pamphlet holds the work of two poets, blending work with two distinct focuses. In one case it’s a son with autism; in the other, a mother with dementia. At start and finish, there’s a poem written jointly….

… After I had who was who clear in my head, I savoured the contrasts and similarities between the paired poems. There’s love and vulnerability at the heart of everything here: the poet allowing herself to be as vulnerable on the page as the loved one.”

Helena Nelson

Poetry

2024

Questions for the New Year; Women’s Football. The Lake, November 2024.
Walk-out. Poetry Scotland, no 108 Autumn 2024
Being Here. Consilience issue 18.
Seven Days Ink, Sweat and Tears, Sept 5th
Afterwards. London Grip, Sept. 2024
Gaza Hunt . Culture Matters, July 8th
February Beach, Black Nore, Jun 19th
Avoid? In: Scottish Book Trust, Scotland’s Stories, Hope
Angular Momentum; Playing SIM City in Sheffield. The High Window, Autumn 2024
Crossroads. Prole issue 35.
Stags and Hens; Delicatessen; Once upon a time, Dream Catcher issue 49, Jun 2024
City Whispers In: Morning Star 21st Century Poetry, May 1st 2024
Attercliffe, Northern Powerhouse; Cybi, the last Llynarffith bard; In Memory of Silvia Parra(1946-1978); in: The Litfest ‘Histories’ Poetry Map, Mar 2024

2023

New Year In: Ink, Sweat and Tears, 12 days of Christmas 2023-4, Day 10
Eyeless In: Culture Matters
After the Fall: Poetry Scotland, issue 106
Cleaning the cooker. Ink, Sweat and Tears, Sept 10th 2023
My Liverpool Home. In: Culture Matters.
Review of the Sky at Night. In: Spilling Cocoa over Martin Amis, Jul 25th, 2023
Nightingale; Last Days of Pompeii; Why I’m glad I did not live in the past. In: The High Window, Summer Issue.
Not That Type of Dementia. In: Our Own Coordinates, Poems about Dementia, Sidhe Press. Mar 2023
Down in the valley; Lanyon Quoit in: Confluence Magazine, no 14
Shostakovich at the football; Sheffield; both in PENning, Jan 2023

2022

The Mighty. In: Spilling Cocoa over Martin Amis, Dec 15th 2022
Essential Worker. In: Ink, Sweat and Tears, Nov 8th, 2022
Passengers. In: Prole, no 33.
Anthropocene. In: Obsessed With Pipework no 100
Stigmergy. In: Consilience Journal, Issue 9 Emergence
Bouquet. Guernsey International Poetry Competition, selected for exhibition on Guernsey’s buses.
Coast.in Lighthouse issue 24 Eye Pavilion, Highly Commended, 2022 Hippocrates prize, 2022 Anthology
Electric Shock, in:Alchemy Spoon, issue 5, p42 Alchemy Spoon, issue 5, p42
Bonfire leaping; Janus; New Acquaintance. Wildfire Words: Backwards and Forwards, Jan 2022
The Uffizi Madonnas and Child. Skylight 47, Issue 15, Jan 2022
And We All Sang Together. Sweety Cat Anthology: Stories & Poems in the Song of Life
Night Walk, in:Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue #7: Premonition, Coincidence, Folklore, Magic

2021

Dear Diary. Penning, Scottish PEN, Diary issue p25
Neanderthal. Calton Ceilidh anthology by Ruby McCann.
Home for Christmas Ink, Sweat and Tears 12 Days of Christmas, 28 Dec 2021
Queen of Infinite Space Pamphlet, pub Maytree Dec 2021
Shostakovich. Poetry Scotland, Autumn 2021.
Do come to my party... Spilling Cocoa over Martin Amis, Sept 9th
The Physics of Sound. Ink, Sweat and Tears, Aug 15
After Lowry: Laying A Foundation Stone. UP, Art Issue, May
Your Life in Red Plastic. Commended, FWS Vernal Equinox Competition
Child. Poetry Scotland, Spring 2021
Costa Rica Come-downs; Gettysburg. Orbis issue 195, Mar 2021
Neolithic Burial. Marble Broadhseet 1, History
Your Own Petition. Federation of Writers Scotland, Arbroath Declarations

2020

Radioactive Skłodowska. Consilience, issue 3
Moving Matters; Bigger Flat. Squiffy Gnu Anthology, Dec 2020
Scaffold. Alchemy Spoon, issue 2
Robot Poems. In: Uncanny Bodies, ed P. Goldschmidt, Luna Press 2020
Today’s news As Above So Below – no6, Liminality. p28
Astronomer: El Roque de Los Muchachos. In: Whirlagust, Yaffle prize anthology 2020
Ch’ang kan Village comes to Manchester; Foundation Stone; in Mancunian Ways, Fly On The Wall
Old Vienna. Allegro issue 25,Allegro Sept 2020
Two Pebbles. Under the Radar, issue 26 Autumn 2020
20:20 Vision. Butcher’s Dog, issue 13, Summer 2020
Children of Coronovirus, Postcards from Malthusia
Iseult’s Complaint, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Issue 3, 2020
The Dresser, Atrium Jan 31, 2020
December, Right Hand Pointing, Issue 36b, Jan 2020
Bastille Day in Herault; Notre Dame du Suc The French Literary Review, Issue 33, Jan 2020
Waterworld; On the Bins Pic Pocket a Poem

CodingWinner, 2020 Poetry of Science Competition

2019

Belshazzar’s Feast Morning Star, Dec 2019
Voicemail from Palestine; Amending Walls. DoveTales Anthology: Bridges or Walls? Nov 2019.
>King Knut Prole 29, Nov 2019
Full Steam Ahead Glasgow Herald Poem of the Day, 29.8.19
Carving Knives Skylight 47, issue 12 Also **Film Poem**
Llyn Peninsula;Pilgrim’s Progress Places of Poetry
Tiree – Ringing StoneStanza Poetry Map of Scotland
Seekers International Times, 3.8.19
More Resolute Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign; 2019 Bread and Roses Anthology
Rule Britannia International Times, May 2019
July Moon. In: Pale Fire, New poetry on the Moon, Frgmore Press, June 2019
New Born. Commended, Mother’s Milk Writing Prize, 2018
And we all sang together. Commended, William Soutar prize , 2018
Letting Go; In the Greenwood; Celeste Aida – in Blue Nib, issue 38, June 2019
The Last Spitfire in:New Boots and Pantisocracies, 18 Mar 2019
Anti-Trump Demonstration. Poets Republic issue 7, May 2019
Great Powers: John Napier of Merciston. In: Scotia Extremis , Andy Jackon, Brian Johnstone (eds) pub Luath Press
Raven. Algebra of Owls.
In parallel. Marble , Issue 4, April 2019
Ch’ang kan Village comes to Manchester – After Ch’ang kan Village Song, by Li Po. Ofi Press 62, April 2019, p8.