This site is devoted to the Mediterranean world and impressions depicting not necessarily only the sometimes almost painfully beautiful side of this world. Still, your submission has to evoke some sense of citrus, cicadas, mountains, sea, kisses under an olive tree, conversations in a café, Apollo’s vaguely heard lyre, the smell of freshly brewed coffee … well, almost any colour that has been used on the canvas since Homer and his heirs!
So, if you would like to contribute with some poems or prose poetry (max 1,000 words) that you find – in some way or the other – illustrate your impression of the Mediterranean world, please send us your words in English, a shorter bio and a photo* of you and your submission will soon be considered!
From the first of January 2024, we will ask for a small donation (3-10 Euros, your choice) for all new submissions IF AND WHEN we decide to publish the submission. PLEASE DO NOT DONATE ANYTHING BEFORE WE NOTIFY YOU THAT WE WILL PUBLISH YOUR POETRY!
The donation is then paid via this link if you think a donation to keep this ship afloat is reasonable and if you have the means! The cost of running this enterprise with solely private means has become a challenge and may eventually end this Odyssey somewhere between Scylla and Charybdis if no measure is taken …
*The photo will be cropped to a small, square size, 95×95 px – a “thumbnail” to illustrate the bio.
Submission address: submit@odyssey.pm
Previous publication is not an issue (a problem for us), the only consideration is that any possible publisher, translator, or photographer with copyrights won’t object to the “material” (your words, your photo) being highlighted at our site!
As for the format, which sometimes is asked for, our answer is: Send us your poem/prose directly in your mail or a Word file, Google Docs, odt, or plain text file… Not keen on locked PDF files, photos with text from printed books, or handwritten manuscripts though – this will mean a lot of work for us if we choose to highlight such submissions. Those we choose to “bring on board” must be aware that we can not always reproduce the formatting since the words and line breaks are coded in HTML and the column reserved for the poetry is not very wide. So for poets who write rather long lines before pondering if it is the right moment to press “Enter” it may be a bit disappointing to see the outcome at Mediterranean Poetry!
If we choose to publish your words you also can do some free advertising for one of your books – poetry or prose preferably with some connection to the Mediterranean world. We place a picture (300×450 px) of your book cover in the right column of Mediterranean Poetry (this website) and link that to the web address of your choice – a publisher who sells your book or maybe Amazon or your website from where you distribute your book.