Hot News: Not All Poets On the Make
that journal decked out as
professional as some
banking or insurance
magazine,
look at the competition it runs.
from last time’s winning entry
and the commendations
the whole thing has got to be rife
with salmonella.
the best poetry - yeah, but according to
which conspiracy?
I’d rather have the opinion of an honest bus
conductor or dosser
who didn’t have cataracts.
the poetry pantomime
has mercifully been exposed
as a con. poets do not sell like
slimmers or biographers,
don’t make a company
that sort of money.
the marketing men
have long gone back
to publicising quick snacks
and alcoholic sodas.
there will always be plenty
who, with persistence and friends
to back them up
wish to be known as poets,
but the few good poems
perhaps one
perhaps none
in a poetry mag
will get through to
those few verse addicts
with hardly any money
but willing
to send off a cheque.
Page(s) 20-21
magazine list
- Features
- zines
- 10th Muse
- 14
- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
- ARTEMISpoetry
- Atlas
- Blithe Spirit
- Borderlines
- Brando's hat
- Brittle Star
- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
- Equinox
- Erbacce
- Fabric
- Fire
- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
- Global Tapestry
- Grosseteste Review
- Homeless Diamonds
- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
- London Magazine, The
- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
- Oxford Poetry
- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
- Poetry Scotland
- Poetry Wales
- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The