ANNA TABORSKA was born in London, England. She was first caught reading horror at age 10 when a teacher, impressed that Anna was sitting at her desk and reading during lunch break rather than playing with other children in the school playground, found that Anna’s science book was actually hiding Guy N. Smith’s Night of the Crabs.
Brainwashing at a posh girls’ school didn’t succeed in suppressing Anna’s horror obsession, and, alongside William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, Anna avidly studied such classic authors as James Herbert and Stephen King.
Following a misguided attempt to wean herself off horror by studying Experimental Psychology at Oxford University, Anna went on to gainful employment in public relations, journalism, advertising and the BBC, before throwing everything over to become a filmmaker and horror writer.
Anna’s films include: The Rain Has Stopped (winner of 2 awards at the British Film Festival Los Angeles 2009), The Sin, Ela, My Uprising and A Fragment of Being.
Her feature length screenplays include: Chainsaw, The Camp and Pizzaman, and her short screenplays include: Little Pig (finalist in the Shriekfest Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2009), Curious Melvin and Arthur’s Cellar.
Her short stories include: Schrödinger’s Human (published in The Fifth Black Book of Horror, 2009), Picture This (pending publication in 52 Stitches, 2010), Halloween Lights (published in And Now the Nightmare Begins: The Horror Zine, 2010), Bagpuss (published in The Sixth Black Book of Horror, 2010).
Her poems include Kantor (published in the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Fall 1995), After Fuseli (pending publication in Spectral Sensations, 2010), Mrs. Smythe regrets going to the day spa (pending publication in the Whortleberry Press Christmas Anthology, 2010) and five poems to appear in the November 2010 issue of The Horror Zine.
Find Anna on her blog or on the web: Internet Movie Database | The Horror Zine | British Films
Editor’s note: Aside from the wonderfully haunting couplet at the end of the poem, this sonnet evokes the era of chivalry by evoking the language of the era without having to resort to the use of antiquated words. It also has the timeless themes of love and heartbreak. Like other poems in this issue, Sonnet 1 should be read aloud to appreciate its musicality. ~ GVB
Sonnet 1 (Poet)
a lonely poet wandering through the woods
poured out his sorrow to a heartless moon
his doubts of love, which untried perfect seemed
his long ordeal, which would be ended soon
of separation to the stars he sang
and filled the still forest with his lament
bemoaning days of grief in foreign lands
and restless nights without his lady spent
but though he cried that fair cannot be true
his heart believed her love lasting and pure
thus finding her clasped in another’s arms
he sought dark hemlock as his only cure
look now the dying poet cries
all things change and all love dies.
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