The Word and Beyond
In a brand new century of electronic misinformation-overload, recreational sedation, sanitised culture and creative illiteracy…this hyper-stressed scribbler is unexpectedly drowning in oceans of artistic printed-word paper. Books, magazines, pamphlets, broadsheets, posters, cards. Hardcore hand-set letterpress to non-impact laser precision. Computer typeset, joined-up biro and unreadable calligraphy. Maybe history probability is being simultaneously rewritten? Perhaps there are too few target journals? Whatever the truth of that, your editorial hermits are swamped by review material with too little available space for it. Cosmic copout to the rescue. Will follow established GT tradition...disappoint many and brown-nose a few. Cerebral land-fill burial indeed.
Dennis Gould, Jeff Cloves and PVT West are the legendary Riffraff Poets. An anarcho-pacifist poetry manifestation; which Adrian Mitchell describes as “..singing for the gentle revolution which Blake and Shelley and Kenneth Patchen lived and died for.” Creatively prolific and long enduring, with an established cult following. £3.50 (cheques payable to Jeff Cloves). 3 Rodborough Ave. Stroud, Glos., GL5 3RR.
Hermits. Barry Edgar Pilcher, Chris Torrance and Bill Wyatt. Another trio of long established UK bards. All having experienced and enjoyed solitary living and hermetic existence. My own enduring conviction is that the poetic process capsules language, distilling words in an alchemic transformation. This trinity have done just that over many years, Working with shorter poems of many different and varied kind. Harvesting a rewarding fruit. Canna Press, 10 Severn Road, Canton, Cardiff, CF11 9EB.
Chris Torrance. Wobbly Chair. A beautifully produced collection — itself part of a larger work called Path. Delightful colour illustrations by Chris. “I am the Buddha who left the Way”. Presented to easily allow and reveal much of his hidden insight and profundity; which waits to be discovered, like buried gems in a textual landscape maze. £7.90. Canna Press.
A.D. Winans sports many published poetry collections. Two recent imprints deserve appreciative mention. Sleeping With Demons. Another day, another situation “leaving me feeling/like a Buddhist monk/in a see-through gown/back from a bad night/on the town.” Mystery Island (email [email protected]). The System. “It’s the system where/Just staying alive becomes/A small victory”. Prison poems inside the slammer and in the wider jails outside. Tight fused into sharp laser penetration. “Your song/Gone with others/who dared to hold/The sun in their hands”. Centennial Press, PO Box 170322, Milwaukee, WI 53217-8026 USA.
Steve Sneyd straddles a bridge between sixties-tinged everyday accessibility and Sci-Fi’s outermost theoretical frontiers. Gestaltmacher, Gestaltmacher, Make Me a Gestalt. To Steve, it’s perhaps all the same thing. This is a conversational story-
telling on a poetry bus journey through the outermost edges of a known and unknown universe. Travelling parallel geography in cerebral terrain. £5.99 ($12.00). The Four Quarters Press, 7 The Towers, Stevenage, SG1 1HE. (ISBN 0 95351 13 2 4.)
Small-press paperback poetry pamphlets and hardback novels may be having a publishing resurgence but trail-blazing energy-charged literary little magazines are presently thin on the ground. At least through the Spring Bank letterbox. Rumour has it that Beat Scene mag continues strong, but we rarely see this. Kerouac Rag is reported out and about again. Other such journals have also been spotted by arty anoraks but not by us. Bucking this trend is Outlaw, put out by Bryn Fortey. A.D.Winans, Lyn Lifshin, Dave Church and Hershel Silverman grace #5’s pages. £2. £7 four issue sub. (cheques to Bryn Fortey). 212 Caerleon Road, Newport, South Wales, NP19 7GQ.
Two reliable productions are Krax and Tears In The Fence. Sporting a rich and varied creative population, Krax is £3.50 ($7) from 63 Dixon Lane, Leeds, Yorkshire, LS12 4RR. Tears In The Fence also features a wide-ranging content with old favourites and newer talents. £15 for 3 ($20). 38 Hod View, Stourpaine, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 8TN.
Evolutionary and revolutionary socio-cultural waters are today muddied by Middle Eastern sociopath and fundamentalist religious terrorism. Surprisingly, dissident and anarchic theoretic is still afire and arage in the fast disappearing counter-culture underground. Textual iconoclasm, sixties utopianism (fantasy and paranoia) roar on unabated.
Northern Voices promotes much more of a traditional socialist-type anarchism with a studied populist approach. £1.20 (£3.20 two issue sub). Spring Bank, Hebden Bridge, HX7 7AA.
Total Liberty’s evolutionary anarchist credo is open-minded and libertarian which allows the vast diversity of anarchistic theoretic and lifestyle into its pages. Individualists and collectivists share the same printed pages without negative bad-mouthing. Always an interesting and informative read. £8 four issue sub (payable to J P Simcock). 47 High Street, Belper, Derby, DE56 1GF.
The Cunningham Amendment (nee Anarchism Lancastrium) is undoubtedly the bees knees or Mister Kropotkin’s testicles. A mellow prankster; with a fine sprinkling of mischief making, spiritual illumination, celebration of foolery, revelation, prophesy, good sense, defiance and much humour (subtlety and slapstick intertwined). Lovingly and exquisitely printed with tradition methodology. 42p or a £1. 1005 Huddersfield Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD12 8LP.
Back in downtown USA, oracles, malcontents and subversives keep on stirring. The Match and The Free Press Death Ship share much the same open-minded libertarianism and celebration of free individual spirit. They also share an hysterical hostility to contemporary printing technology. Albeit they both use variants of seventies offset-litho which was originally similarly maligned. The Match asks for donations to Fred Woodworth, PO Box 3012, Tucson, Arizona 85702 ,USA. ...Death Ship is edited by Violet Jones, PO Box 55336, Hayward CA94545, USA.
Dennis Gould, Jeff Cloves and PVT West are the legendary Riffraff Poets. An anarcho-pacifist poetry manifestation; which Adrian Mitchell describes as “..singing for the gentle revolution which Blake and Shelley and Kenneth Patchen lived and died for.” Creatively prolific and long enduring, with an established cult following. £3.50 (cheques payable to Jeff Cloves). 3 Rodborough Ave. Stroud, Glos., GL5 3RR.
Hermits. Barry Edgar Pilcher, Chris Torrance and Bill Wyatt. Another trio of long established UK bards. All having experienced and enjoyed solitary living and hermetic existence. My own enduring conviction is that the poetic process capsules language, distilling words in an alchemic transformation. This trinity have done just that over many years, Working with shorter poems of many different and varied kind. Harvesting a rewarding fruit. Canna Press, 10 Severn Road, Canton, Cardiff, CF11 9EB.
Chris Torrance. Wobbly Chair. A beautifully produced collection — itself part of a larger work called Path. Delightful colour illustrations by Chris. “I am the Buddha who left the Way”. Presented to easily allow and reveal much of his hidden insight and profundity; which waits to be discovered, like buried gems in a textual landscape maze. £7.90. Canna Press.
A.D. Winans sports many published poetry collections. Two recent imprints deserve appreciative mention. Sleeping With Demons. Another day, another situation “leaving me feeling/like a Buddhist monk/in a see-through gown/back from a bad night/on the town.” Mystery Island (email [email protected]). The System. “It’s the system where/Just staying alive becomes/A small victory”. Prison poems inside the slammer and in the wider jails outside. Tight fused into sharp laser penetration. “Your song/Gone with others/who dared to hold/The sun in their hands”. Centennial Press, PO Box 170322, Milwaukee, WI 53217-8026 USA.
Steve Sneyd straddles a bridge between sixties-tinged everyday accessibility and Sci-Fi’s outermost theoretical frontiers. Gestaltmacher, Gestaltmacher, Make Me a Gestalt. To Steve, it’s perhaps all the same thing. This is a conversational story-
telling on a poetry bus journey through the outermost edges of a known and unknown universe. Travelling parallel geography in cerebral terrain. £5.99 ($12.00). The Four Quarters Press, 7 The Towers, Stevenage, SG1 1HE. (ISBN 0 95351 13 2 4.)
Small-press paperback poetry pamphlets and hardback novels may be having a publishing resurgence but trail-blazing energy-charged literary little magazines are presently thin on the ground. At least through the Spring Bank letterbox. Rumour has it that Beat Scene mag continues strong, but we rarely see this. Kerouac Rag is reported out and about again. Other such journals have also been spotted by arty anoraks but not by us. Bucking this trend is Outlaw, put out by Bryn Fortey. A.D.Winans, Lyn Lifshin, Dave Church and Hershel Silverman grace #5’s pages. £2. £7 four issue sub. (cheques to Bryn Fortey). 212 Caerleon Road, Newport, South Wales, NP19 7GQ.
Two reliable productions are Krax and Tears In The Fence. Sporting a rich and varied creative population, Krax is £3.50 ($7) from 63 Dixon Lane, Leeds, Yorkshire, LS12 4RR. Tears In The Fence also features a wide-ranging content with old favourites and newer talents. £15 for 3 ($20). 38 Hod View, Stourpaine, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 8TN.
Evolutionary and revolutionary socio-cultural waters are today muddied by Middle Eastern sociopath and fundamentalist religious terrorism. Surprisingly, dissident and anarchic theoretic is still afire and arage in the fast disappearing counter-culture underground. Textual iconoclasm, sixties utopianism (fantasy and paranoia) roar on unabated.
Northern Voices promotes much more of a traditional socialist-type anarchism with a studied populist approach. £1.20 (£3.20 two issue sub). Spring Bank, Hebden Bridge, HX7 7AA.
Total Liberty’s evolutionary anarchist credo is open-minded and libertarian which allows the vast diversity of anarchistic theoretic and lifestyle into its pages. Individualists and collectivists share the same printed pages without negative bad-mouthing. Always an interesting and informative read. £8 four issue sub (payable to J P Simcock). 47 High Street, Belper, Derby, DE56 1GF.
The Cunningham Amendment (nee Anarchism Lancastrium) is undoubtedly the bees knees or Mister Kropotkin’s testicles. A mellow prankster; with a fine sprinkling of mischief making, spiritual illumination, celebration of foolery, revelation, prophesy, good sense, defiance and much humour (subtlety and slapstick intertwined). Lovingly and exquisitely printed with tradition methodology. 42p or a £1. 1005 Huddersfield Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD12 8LP.
Back in downtown USA, oracles, malcontents and subversives keep on stirring. The Match and The Free Press Death Ship share much the same open-minded libertarianism and celebration of free individual spirit. They also share an hysterical hostility to contemporary printing technology. Albeit they both use variants of seventies offset-litho which was originally similarly maligned. The Match asks for donations to Fred Woodworth, PO Box 3012, Tucson, Arizona 85702 ,USA. ...Death Ship is edited by Violet Jones, PO Box 55336, Hayward CA94545, USA.
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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