Listings Publications
reviewed
The Small Press Guide 2001 Writers’ Bookshop (Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive, Woodston, Peterborough, PE2 9JX, A5ish/perfect bound, 325pp/£9.99).
This is still probably the most comprehensive listings resource relating to the small press magazine publishing world in the UK (mainly ‘literary’, but other stuff too). It provides information such as the address, price, frequency and (alleged) circulation of publications, plus it opens each entry with a paragraph - written by a representative of the magazine - explaining its purpose or style (etc.). "A great poem must remain a mystery." (Agenda). "Revolution is the name of the game with Bedsprings Top 50 Wankers cards free with every issue…(Bedsprings Unite)" Some of the descriptions provide plenty of cheese. "Myslexia's readers say the magazine has changed their lives. Some have received letters from literary agents or radio producers who scan the magazine for new talent." (Myslexia: for women who write). Oh gosh. Oh my. Quick Lucy, write another poem.
Light’s List 2000 John Light (Photon Press, 37 The Meadows, Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland, TD15 1NY, A5/saddle stitched, 62pp/£2 each, cheques to John Light).
"Contains the names, addresses, price, frequency, page count and a brief note of interests (e.g. "Traditional: poems to 30 lines fiction to 2000 words, reviews, artwork") of over 1450 UK, US, Canadian, Australian, European, African and Asian small press magazines publishing creative writing and artwork in English." Light's List has the advantage of being both cheap and comprehensive. It makes a good bookshelf sidekick for The Small Press Guide, listing magazines by country. It's like the internet, only it's on paper.
Peter Riley (Books) Catalogue 73 (27 Sturton Street, Cambridge, CB1 2QG, A5/saddle stitched, 12pp/free for SAE).
Peter Riley's virtual shop window continues to display its wonders to the world. New and second hand literature on sale here. A poetry bookshelf with the dross filtered out and prompt delivery of the goods (testimonial). He often knocks out the second hand stuff at bargain prices. Particularly good for the more obscure/quality end of the innovative poetry market, but he also punts the likes of Jeremy Reed, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Roger McGough and John Kinsella.
Data Dump 53 Steve Sneyd (4 Nowell Place, Almondbury, Huddersfield, HD5 8PB, A5/folded card, 4pp/free for SAE).
This is Steve's hand-written chronicle of the textual stars. Anything even remotely to do with SF genre poetry will turn up here eventually. You might have to wait a while to see your comet, but its bound to appear and all these goings on must herald something. It's an odd artefact. It just fell from the sky. I found it in the garden in the morning. The handwriting is small and its getting smaller by the light year. There is a universe in this grain of sand but you'd need to apply the equivalent of printers' lead to separate the lines. It's tough going on the eyes and, as yet, the software hasn't been invented that reads Steve's handwriting. It's alien technology; MI5 have it but they aren't letting on. "I think Steve is very angry indeed with the SF genre poetry world and at a very deep level and that he is actualising these feelings unconsciously within his small, closely packed handwriting. He wishes to give them headaches. Eyestrain in space, it's an epidemic." Chazzy M. DD53 includes a competition, to win the '69 Panther anthology of SF poetry, Frontier of Going (ed. John Fairfax). You have to answer the following: "which SF novel is mentioned in Billy Joel's 'We didn't light the fire'?" Sometimes Steve can be scary and strange.
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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