The titular Heroic Crown from my collection Crown of Thorns, published by Oneiros Books
http://www.paraphiliamagazine.com/oneirosbooks/crown-of-thorns/

“Crown of Thorns is conceived as a total poem. The intricate patterning of the sequences releases a vortex of sonnets, which are by turns visceral, creaturely, fluid, heart-wrung, wild, true and ruthless. Taken together they create a complex, patterned magic – a swarm of language and sound gathered in with immense skill by Bethany Pope. This is a book of intense and impressive movement and momentum.”

– David Morley

'Crown Of Thorns'

Sonnet Number 3

Bethany W Pope is an award winning author of the LBA, and a finalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom Awards. She was a runner up for the Cinnamon Press Novel Competition. She received her PhD from Aberystwyth University’s Creative Writing program. She was an assistant editor at Sheep Meadow Press. Her first poetry collection, A Radiance was published by Cultured Llama Press last June. Her second collection, Crown of Thorns, was published by Oneiros press this August. Her first chapbook The Gospel of Flies has been accepted by Writing Knights Press and will be released in 2014. Her work has appeared in: Anon, Art Times, Ampersand, Blue Tattoo, The Galway Review, Sentinel Quarterly, Blue Max Review, The Delinquent, De/Tached (an anthology released by Parthian), The Writer’s Hub, New Welsh Review, Poetry Review Salzburg, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Every Day Poems, The Brooklyn Voice, Miracle E-zine, And Other Poems, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Magma, Words & Music, The Quarterly Conversation, Tears in the Fence, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Bone Orchard, Poetry Pacific, Big River Poetry Review and Planet. Her work is due to appear in the next issues of Turbulence, Acumen, Envoi, Thirteen Myna Birds, Long Poem Magazine, Music& Literature, Anon, Flutter, Lakeview Journal and The Screech Owl. 

Bethany W Pope

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