The Best SF Poetry

Here's the list of the ten best SF poems of all time, as selected by Locus readers.

http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Features/06_PoetryPollResults.html

Rank Title, Author (year first published)

1) "Return to the Mutant Rain Forest", Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier (1989)

2) "Confessions of a Body Thief", Bruce Boston (1998)

3) "In the Darkened Hours", Bruce Boston (1988)

4) "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station", John M. Ford (1988)

5) "Interstellar Tract", Bruce Boston (1987)

6) "The Last Existentialist", Bruce Boston (1993)

7) "White Trains", Lucius Shepard (1987)

8) "The Raven", Edgar Allan Poe (1845)

9) "DX", Joe Haldeman (1987)

10) "the button and what you know", W. Gregory Stewart (1991)

And 2005's best, which includes one of mine!

"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)