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Issue 2: June 2008

Editorial

 

Competition

 

David Anthony

Slush Pile

 

Alanna Blake:

A Discontented Sonnet

 

Diana Brodie

Hi Darling! I'm on the Train

 

Joan Butler

Spring Kleening

BLLCK NKD

 

Tony Cloke

Lands of my Greatgrandfathers

 

Ann Drysdale

The Case for Light Verse

Between Dryden and Duffy

 

Bill Greenwell

The Recall of the Wild

 

Helena Nelson

Eight Tips for New Poets

 

Bob Newman

A Shameful Admission

 

D A Prince

Christopher Robin

 

Andy Proudfoot

House Sitting, An Apology

 

Hilary Sheers

Grandma Bling

 

George Simmers

Skin

For Your Eyes Only

 

Frances Thompson

The Disgruntled Lover

 

Emrys Westacott

Pteens for Ptolemy

 

Helen Whittaker

Perfect

 

John Whitworth

A Hangover and its Cure

 

Clawing their way past several hundred hopefuls, a select group made it up the gangway to the Ark that is Issue Two. 

An appreciative Editor can offer only an olive twig to those left behind as he floats off with the survivors. 

Join him on board as:--

  • DA Prince watches Christopher Robin go from goodie to hoodie.
     

  • George Simmers hymns the “undulant container” that is skin.
     

  • Frances Thompson recovers her composure over devilled kidneys.
     

  • Ann Drysdale manages to upset booksellers but still keep her work on prominent display.
     

  • Alanna Blake liberates the classic sonnet.
     

  • Hoping for Paris, Helen Whittaker finds love by the Macclesfield Canal.
     

  • Bill Greenwell populates the Scottish Highlands with exotic species.
     

  • Andy Proudfoot  apologises again.
     

  • Like all poets David Anthony recognises really good writing when he sees it.
     

  • Bob Newman persuaded the Editor that mathematical theory allows for the villanelle to be stretched to 151 lines.  (His claim that there was also literary support for this was rather less convincing.)  But here it is, anyway.  A tour de force, the serialisation rights are still available.
     

  • John Whitworth deals with a hangover.
     

  • Emrys Westacott has our sympathy.
     

  • Tony Cloke goes back to his forebears via the rolling English road.
     

  • Hilary Sheers sees some sights.  (Sounds like Ibiza to me).
     

  • Joan Butler watches the language.
     

  • Diana Brodie has heard too much of it.
     

  • Helena Nelson advises poets who hope to publish what they have used of it.

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