LightenUp Online
The quarterly light verse webzine
Lighten Up Links
The website of Lighten Up Online's editor, Martin Parker.
www.lightquarterly.org
LIGHT is the only magazine available in the United States in
publication since 1992 devoted exclusively to Light Verse.
A journal of formal and metrical verse edited by Lighten Up Online contributor, Anna Evans
"The "rambling thoughts" of Ireland's Peter Goulding, "one who
aspires to be a poet but has thus far failed miserably."
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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Search for short fiction and poetry markets. Includes submission tracker and extensive reports on response times and acceptance rates. |
www.inclusifolk.com
The website of splendidly
eccentric poet, musician and performer Colin Shaddick, AKA
Uke Stanza.
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.
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