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Friday 23 June 2006

2006 Poetry Poll Results

This year Locus Online hosted, in conjunction with the annual Locus Poll & Survey, a special online-only poetry poll for the best SF/fantasy/horror poems of 2005 and of all-time.

Voting was light, with only 56 valid ballots received, compared to 962 in the regular Locus poll.

For best all-time poem, results were tabulated using the usual Locus Poll system (1st place vote = 8 points, 2nd place = 7 points, etc.). All poems receiving at least 3 votes are listed below, ranked by total points, with the number of votes and the number of first-place votes also shown.

Voting was widely scattered for 2005 poems, since no list of recommendations or drop-down selections was provided. Results in the 2005 category are thus too diffuse to declare a winner; no poem received more than 3 votes, and the point spread among all those receiving 2 or 3 votes was small. All titles receiving 2 or more votes are listed below, alphabetically by title.

Best All-Time SF/Fantasy/Horror Poem

Rank Title, Author (year first published) Points Votes Firsts
1) "Return to the Mutant Rain Forest", Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier (1989) 52 9 1
2) "Confessions of a Body Thief", Bruce Boston (1998) 49 7 1
3) "In the Darkened Hours", Bruce Boston (1988) 45 6 5
4) "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station", John M. Ford (1988) 31 5 2
5) "Interstellar Tract", Bruce Boston (1987) 29 5 0
6) "The Last Existentialist", Bruce Boston (1993) 26 9 1
7) "White Trains", Lucius Shepard (1987) 26 4 1
8) "The Raven", Edgar Allan Poe (1845) 23 3 2
9) "DX", Joe Haldeman (1987) 22 3 2
10) "the button and what you know", W. Gregory Stewart (1991) 20 3 1

Best 2005 SF/Fantasy/Horror Poems

  • "The Adventures of the Faithful Counselor: A Narrative Poem", Anne Sheldon (Aqueduct Press, Apr 2005)
  • "And We Shall Go A'Questing", Mikal Trimm (Lone Star Stories #7, Feb 2005)
  • "The Broad Strokes", W. Gregory Stewart (Dreams & Nightmares #72, 2005)
  • "The Elongated Years", Bruce Boston (Strange Horizons, 4 Apr 2005)
  • "How the Sea People Mourn", Constance Cooper (Mythic Delirium #13, Summer/Fall 2005)
  • "The Infernal Firmament", Tobias Seamon (Star*Line 28.5, Sep/Oct 2005)
  • "Mycology", Susan Edwards Richmond (The Pedestal Magazine #30, Oct/Dec 2005)
  • "Picasso's Rapture", Mike Allen (Strange Horizons, 6 Jun 2005)
  • "River Watch", Bruce Boston (The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 7.1, Winter 2004/2005)
  • "South", Marge Simon (Ilumen, Spring 2005)
  • "Tiger Lily Madness", Cat Rambo (Strange Horizons, 14 Nov 2005)
  • "The Tin Men", Kendall Evans & David C. Kopaska-Merkel (The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 7.1, Winter 2004/2005)
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