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May 15th, 2026
Every four months, a comet blazes.
Comet #8 presents stellar new poetry published in Wax Poetry and Art publications.
Comet #8 is edited and designed by Kirk Ramdath. Published by Florencia Bay Books in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. Nanaimo is located on the traditional and unceded territory of the Snuneymuxw First Nation of the Coast Salish Peoples.
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COMET EDITOR'S CHOICE
May 15th, 2026
Dublin Poetry Contest #3 – First Place
Where Were You, Mammy?
by Siobháin Spear
(Clare, Munster, Ireland)
May 15th, 2026
Australia Poetry Contest #4 – First Place
Yarra Glen
by Graham Thorpe
(Yarra Glen, Victoria, Australia)
May 15th, 2026
Canada Poetry Contest #6 – First Place
The Truth
by Kathleen Lutz
(Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
May 15th, 2026
Edinburgh Poetry Contest #2 – First Place
A Feverish Walk to Duddingston Loch
by Katie O'Connor
(Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland)
May 15th, 2026
Europe Poetry Contest #2 – First Place
a poem is a forest
by Konstantin
(Oslo, Norway)
May 15th, 2026
India Poetry Contest #6 – First Place
Bhaiya.
by Pragya Dhiman
(New Delhi, Delhi, India)
May 15th, 2026
Wax International Contest #5 – First Place
The Sinkholes
by Chisom Oscar
(Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria)
May 15th, 2026
Nigeria Poetry Contest #3 – First Place
That Hidden Tenderness
by Emmanuel Igiegba Okodo
(Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria)
May 15th, 2026
South Africa Poetry Contest #4 – First Place
Miscarried Messages
by Nicole Chingosha
(Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa)
May 15th, 2026
Vancouver Poetry Contest #6 – First Place
Thoracic Era
by Rayne Lacko
(Bainbridge Island, Washington, United States)
May 15th, 2026
Fettered by Freedom
by JB Felix
(Adelaide, South Australia, Australia)
May 15th, 2026
Memories
by J.Bromley
(Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
May 15th, 2026
Spoken, Unspoken Words
by Akshit Suri
(Surrey, British Columbia, Canada)
May 15th, 2026
Humanity
by Lorraine Ryan
(Tubbercurry, County Sligo, Ireland)
May 15th, 2026
"cold autumn wind" (first line)
by Ana-Mariya Boykova
(Radomir, Pernik, Bulgaria)
May 15th, 2026
Liminal
by Sunil Mukundan
(Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India)
May 15th, 2026
Spilling Time
by Gautham Pradeep
(Surathkal, Karnataka, India)
May 15th, 2026
The Pillow Holds His Whisper
by Sandeep Singh Madan
(Jalandhar, Punjab, India)
May 15th, 2026
The Love I Didn't See, But Always Felt
by Aswini Krishna
(Machilipatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India)
May 15th, 2026
The Weight of Seeing
by Mohit Mitra
(Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India)
May 15th, 2026
A Toast to the Spring
by Toolika Rani
(Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India)
May 15th, 2026
I Am Nigeria
by Joseph C. Ogbonna
(Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria)
May 15th, 2026
Field Guide for West Coast Flora and Fauna
by Lacey Reid
(Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Thanks for reading! Read more original poetry and art by clicking the links and thumbnails, below.
Read previous issues of Comet:
Comet #7
Comet #6
Comet #5
Comet #4
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