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Review Philip Ruthen on Sally Richards' Emperor Dragonfly (Caparison, 2011)
Rostrum 'Dames and Pantomimes' - Simon Jenner on the sacking of ACE Chair Liz Forgan
Rostrum Niall McDevitt on The New Political Poetry
Rostrum Here Is The New Political Poetry: Alan Morrison reviews
A Stack of Smokestacks: N.S. Thompson, David Betteridge et al.,
Victoria Bean and Andrew Jordan; plus Clare Saponia, Alan Britt
More Reviews Kevin Saving on Philip Larkin, Mike Wilson and Martin Rowson
New Review Alan Morrison on Norman Jope's Dreams of the Caucasus
Norman Buller on Wondering About Many Women by Derwent May
Kevin Saving on Strange Meetings -The Poets of the Great War
Vinita Agrawal on Dances with The Cranes by G.D. Bakshi
New Prose Forgotten People by Peter Street,
Semiology by Ken Champion, The Only Patriot in the Neighborhood
by Thomas Sullivan, Death of a Season by Blake Everitt, 1980 (part one)
by James Mansfield and Hence the Wall by Ruben Connell
New Poems by Sam Silva, Niall McDevitt, Austin McCarron, Phil Howard, Michael D. Brown,
Jacob Richardson, Peter Branson, Chris Vaillancourt, Jim Newcombe, Miggy Angel, Jim Morris,
(the late) Judith Mensch, Mike Jenkins, Alan Dunnett, Bruce Harris, Lexie Cracknell, Ken Champion,
Naomi Foyle, Owen Gallagher, Maria Gornell, David Groulx, Amanda Hempel, Helen Moore,
J.B. Mulligan, Daniel North, Abi Wyatt
Archived Poems R.A. Allen, CB Anderson, Amelia Arcamone-Makinano, Keith Armstrong, Rudy Baron,
Richard Barrett, Sandy Benitez, Mike Berger, Peter Branson, Alan Britt, Adrian Brown, Leon Brown,
Ken Champion, Keith Chopping, Richard Copeland, Chris Crittenden, Bernadette Cremin, Andy Croft,
Alessandro Cusimano, Jude Dillon, Justin Ehrlich, Neil Ellman, James Fountain, Alex Galper,
Nigel Holt, Kathryn Jacobs, Tom Jayston, Dennis Joe, Michael Lee Johnson, Norman Jope,
Dina Kafiris, Pycho Kanev, Rose Kelleher, Tom Kelly, David Kessel, Mark Kirkbride,
Karl Koweski, David LaBounty, Thomas Ország-Land, Roberta Lawson, Richard Layton,
Quincy Lehr, Robert Lietz, Michael McAloran, John McKeown, Donal Mahoney, Steve Mann,
Robert Marsland, Joshua Meander, Nigel Mellor, Elfriede Mollon, Adam Moorad, George Moore,
Angela Readman, Kevin Reid, Moss Rich, Sally Richards, Anick Roschi, Marybeth Rua-Larsen,
Philip Ruthen, Farida Samerkhanova, Kevin Saving, Anthony Seidman,
(the late) Derek Stanford, Barry Tebb, Michael Thorne, Angela Topping, David Trippas,
Prose Poems and Poetic Prose Christopher Allen, Jan Bradley, Leon Brown, Paul A Green,
Carole Hamilton, Jan Harris, Anthony Hitchin, Tom Kelly, Calum Kerr, Karl Koweski, James Mansfield
Graeme McCann, Patrick Schober, Petra Whiteley
seems to me as corrupt as consciousness of culture and absence of honesty can make it. A canting, lie-loving, fact-hating, scribbling, chattering, wealth-hunting, pleasure-hunting, celebrity-hunting mob
George Bernard Shaw
An Unsocial Socialist (1883)
The want of poetical power is the impelling force in the case of most versifiers. They would fain be poets, and imagine that the best way is to try to write poetry and to publish what they write. They will never see their mistake. Equus asinus still believes that the possession of an organ of noise is sufficient, with a little practice, to enable him to sing like a nightingale.
John Davidson (1857 – 1909)
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