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Issue 71: September 2025

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In This Issue
Melissa Balmain: Ode To A Basement Cockroach
Martin Parker: The End-Of-The-Pier Show
Philip Dunkerley:Toucans Rondeau
Julia Griffin: To The Seventh Place
Alex Steelsmith: A Concerted Effort
INTERVAL ONE: From Lewis To Leaves
Barry Foy:The Poem Against Music
Eleanor Jane Turner: The Butter Fandango
Tony Peyser: My House Was Gone, My Mailbox Wasn't
D.A. Prince: The Joy Of Being A Stoic
Kathleen Beavers: Cold Caller's Lament
D. A. Cooper: Mama. (Translation)
INTERVAL TWO: From Lawn To Lock
Katie Dunbar: Way(s)To Go
Max Gutmann: Machine
Philip Kitcher: Confessions Of A Cricket-Lover In Exile
Michael Swan: Philosophy
Midge Goldberg: In A Nutshell
Daniel Galef: Four Songs Limericised
INTERVAL THREE: That's Pobiz!
Mike Mesterton-Gibbons: Photographic Memory
Michael Calvert: My One And Only
Gwen Owen: Train Landscape
Roger Bonner: Ode To The Fountain Of Age
Pat D'Amico: Turning Up The Heat
Shreya Datta: Eyebrows
INTERVAL FOUR: From Stick To Shoot-Out
Paul Willis: Hiking The Grand
Royal W. Rhodes: Dating Neanderthals
Susan McLean: Bitter
Tim Taylor: Salad
Tom Vaughan: Hard-Boiled
Steven Kent: The Clinic Chart
INTERVAL FIVE: Apologies And Allusions
David Dumouriez: Our Friends
Simon MacCulloch: Catterell
Bruce McGuffin: The Hat
Competition 70: The Knight Of The Wire
Competition 71: Statuesque Stanzas