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The website of Lighten Up Online's editor, Martin Parker. Support, critiques and resources for writers. An annual, international poetry competition offering free critiques and listing feedback to all entrants. Information about obscure verse forms, tessellating interlocking polyminoes, parodies, pretty patterns and devilled fruit. Edited by Lighten Up contributor George Simmers. Matt has been variously described in the Press as “… a word-based organism from Devon”, “…fabulously understated” and “… a pale man in a suit”. He appears regularly on Radio 4’s Saturday Live and writes Desktop Poetry for the Saturday Guardian’s Work Section. Fattish, baldish, backward-looking and provincial, his publications include Tennis and Sex and Death and Landscape With Small Humans, both from Peterloo. Ubiquitous light verse competition winner and former poet in residence at the New Statesman, short listed for the Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection category, 2006). Don't miss his Weekly Poem at: www.theweeklypoem.com .
Poetry chapbook publisher, and home of Sphinx Chapbook Review magazine. Headed up by Lighten Up Online contributor Helena Nelson.
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Doggerel Daze & The Light Verse Resource Centre Publishers of light verse. "More laughs per page -- guaranteed." Fourteen contemporary sonnets by fourteen different authors quarterly. A literary miscellany. Two issues each year. "... the front line of the war against poetry." Published each Jan., May and Sept./Oct. Add your own definitions for every word in the English language --
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