Sally Ashton is a poet, writer, teacher, and Editor in Chief of DMQ Review, an online journal featuring poetry and art. Author of three poetry collections, her fourth, The Behaviour of Clocks, was published in 2019. Ashton is assistant editor of They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing. Recent work appears in Rattle, Cagibi, Poetry Flash, Los Angeles Review of Books and in A Cast-Iron Aeoroplane that Actually Flies: Commentaries from 80 American Poets on their Prose Poems by Madhat Press.

Other poems by Sally Ashton in Verse Daily:
March 13, 2005:  "Sometimes Lightning" ""Sometimes lightning misfires...."

Books by Sally Ashton:

Other poems on the web by Sally Ashton:
Two poems

Sally Ashton's Website.

About The Behaviour of Clocks:

"Poems are magical because they operate both inside and outside of time. Sally Ashton's ambitious and marvelous The Behaviour of Clocks uses Albert Einstein's unusually poetic theories of time as points of departure to travel across and through time, countries, concepts, and characters. She brilliantly marries the narrative of prose with the lyricism of poetry to create a series of hybrid texts that echo Charles Baudelaire, Gertrude Stein, Francis Ponge, and Mary Ruefle. Her poems take us to Italy, to the past, and to the moon, but also to those vast continents of the imagination where wherever we wander we're home. Dear Weary Traveler, I have good news. You can at last sit back and relax. Make yourself comfortable because you will not want to leave this book."
—Dean Rader

"In The Behaviour of Clocks, Sally Ashton's poems move like foreign landscapes, strange and luminous as the wind pressed against blades of grasses. Invoking DaVinci, Einstein, Whitman, Pessoa, time is a radiant prism in her deft hand—elliptical, backward, stilled, and spun off the wheel of the ordinary altogether. Reaching toward history as vigorously as a glossary of tomorrows, her riveting inquiry loosens time from its linear track. If Ashton brings home the ruins and dreams them out, then we are gifted the chance to dwell in all the possible circumferences."
—Jennifer K. Sweeney