Sweet Poison

Bram Stoker Award winner Marge Simon and Nebula Award winner Mary A. Turzillo team up to create a stunning collection of phantastic verse, dark and light. Simon and Turzillo use call and response, a succession of phrases usually played by different musicians, where the second phrase responds to the first, with their dual poems, such as "Lady M" and "Not About Shakespeare." Some poems are science-fictional, such as "The Castaway Bar" and "Foreigner," some are dark, like "This Undead Hand" and "Black Roses," and some unclassifiable. Yet each one is a variant of sweet poison.

About the Author

Marge Simon's work appears in publications such as Strange Horizons, Niteblade, Daily Science Fiction, Pedestal Magazine, and Dreams & Nightmares. She has won the Strange Horizons Readers Choice Award, the Bram Stoker Award (2008,2012), the Rhysling Award and the Dwarf Stars Award.Mary Turzillo's Nebula-winner, "Mars Is No Place for Children, and her Analog novelAn Old-Fashioned Martian Girl are recemmended reading on the international Space Station. She has been a finalist on the British SFA, Pushcart, Stoker, Dwarf Stars, and Rhysling ballots. Her poetry collection Lovers and Killers won the 2013 Elgin Award for Best Speculative Poetry Collection.

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