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New Life Writing extract from a memoir No Bombs On 'Cei Newydd' by Catrin Edwards Jones
New Poetic Prose Philip Ruthen's One Hundred Days War
Rostrum Kevin Saving on Can Gerry Robinson Fix Dementia Care Homes?
Latest Reviews Alan Morrison on Andy Croft's Sticky and David Kynaston's Austerity Britain
Latest instalment of Peter Street's novel-in-progress, Flamenco Dancer
New Life Writing part one of The Never-Ending Quest - a Memoir by John Horder
extracts from Hazel Roy's eye-opening account of child labour in Three Months in Nepal
New John Horder on Rosemary Tonks, Pema Chodron, Jeremy Lewis, Wendy Cope,
The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald, the First Female Poet Laureate, Michael Frayn
Theatre Reviews Alan Morrison on Hall's The Pitmen Painters and James Morrison
Most Recent 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, Chris Crittenden, Richard Copeland, Bernadette Cremin,
Andy Croft, Alan Dunnett, Justin Ehrlich, Neil Ellman, James Fountain, Alex Galper,
Joseph Goosey, Graham Hardie, Mia Hart-Allison, Anthony Hitchin, Nigel Holt, Martin Jack,
Kathryn Jacobs, Dennis Joe, Michael Lee Johnson, Norman Jope, Dina Kafiris, Pycho Kanev,
Rose Kelleher, David Kessel, Karl Koweski, David LaBounty, Thomas Ország-Land, Roberta Lawson, Richard Layton, Quincy Lehr, Robert Lietz, Michael McAloran, Jonathan Mackenzie, Donal Mahoney, Steve Mann, Joshua Meander, Elfriede Mollon, Adam Moorad, John O'Donoghue, Ruary O'Siochain,
Sergio A. Ortiz, Neal Pearce, J.R. Pearson, Kenneth Pobo, Frank Praeger, Terence Quinn, Kevin Reid,
Sally Richards, Anick Roschi, Marybeth Rua-Larsen, Philip Ruthen, Farida Samerkhanova,
Kevin Saving, Anthony Seidman, Sam Silva, George Slone, Paul Stevens, Chris G. Valliancourt,
Carrie Viens, Julie Whitby, Petra Whiteley
and a previously unpublished poem by the late Derek Stanford
New Prose Poems and Poetic Prose from Mike Berger, Christopher Capelluto & Carrie Viens
New Prose from Barry Basden, Jane Bellis, Leon Brown, Carole Hamilton, Jan Harris,
Anthony Hitchin, Tom Kelly, Calum Kerr, Karl Koweski, Graeme McCann, Petra Whiteley
Saving Grace Bundle O'Tinder by Rose Kelleher; A Walk Around The Lakes by Hunter Davies;
The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds; Writing Poetry by Chad Davidson & Gregory Fraser;
radical voices for
radical times
Modern English polite society...
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)
non-conformist poetry, prose, polemic
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.
