Cover: Photo (c) J. G. Betts. Dandelion glory
LUPO’s Issue 57 for March 2022, the third and, it is to be hoped, last year of the spiked scourge offers a variety of verse fare, including adolescent adventures, Albert Camus, Albert Einstein, appliances, ars poetica, bears, cats, cheesecake, colours, Covidian consequences, ducks, enantiomorph-aversion, glue, grand opera, gurnard, hackers, and kitchen reflections, à la Gray. There are also newts, Oliver Sacks, personal advertisements, reflections on some misadventures in Melbourne, Robinson Crusoe, Roombas, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, satnavigation, social climbing, soup, space sagas, sticky notes, the revelations of the Beatles’ Rita, waxing, and other topics.
With their work on display in the three regular and one special Interval come Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Roger Beckett, Jerome Betts, Steve Bremner, Terese Coe, Pat D’Amico, Tracy Davidson, Siri Espy, Richard Fleming, Daniel Galef, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, Tony Inchley, Steven Kent, Susan McLean, L.A. Mereoie, Rumi Morkin, James B. Nicola, Martin Parker, Tony Peyser, D. A. Prince, Margaret Owen Ruckert, Rana Shabibi, Peggy Verrall, Russel Winick and Paul Willis.
Fresh from their verse-splicing labours, the successful producers of literary hybrids in Competition 56, include C. R. Edenhill, Julia Griffin, Steven Kent, Katie Mallett, Mike Mesterton-Gibbons, Michael Swan and John Wood.
On the roll call of welcome new names this quarter are Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Nuala McEvoy, Ellen Hawley McWhirter, Donald Sellitti, and Donald Wheelock.
The times never seem other than parlous or perilous these days, so may the wit and verbal ingenuity of contributors old and new again provide some moments of distraction from the deluge of dire news. Our thanks to them and to Ana Hijosa Sanchez and Heather Simpson for the use of photographs, together with best spring wishes to all LUPO’s readers.
