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But I’m old enough to know
Old enough to understand
All these things I’ve carried here
Belong in a child’s hands

Lucy Kaplansky

I think if there is a theme, this issue is built around the subject of childhood. In the middle of the issue, from pages 90 - 113, is a section of children’s poetry, which I am proud to present as a part of what FIRE aims to achieve. Alongside the children’s poetry in this issue is the setting up of a children’s poetry section on the FIRE website, this will be ongoing, and further contributions of poems from children, both for the website and a possible future issue of the magazine. will be welcome.

In addition, this issue has a special interest in collaborations, translations & performance texts, including children’s collaborations. There is also a significant sprinkling of young writers on other pages than the middle section, including a short story by 15 year old Emma Lewis, poets in their late teens (Thomas Kendall, Emma McGordon, Karly Muirhead Steve Rudd, Rebecca M.Wilson, David Hoare, Abbie Todd and Tristram D.Burden) and early 20s (Steve C.Stone, Deborah Maudlin, David Adams, Cassandra Willoughby, Kerry Andrew, Darlene Wilson, Chloë Meakin & Jon Summers.) Some of these writers are new to FIRE, others appeared in no.11 and/or subsequent issues.

Acknowledgements - Lloyd Robson’s poem When She Sleeps was previously published in Poetry Wales. Chloë Meakin’s poem Because It’s There previously appeared in Acid Angel. David Adams appeared in Obsessed With Pipework with his poem Chinese Lanterns. Christopher Allan’s 4 poems have all previously been published, The Gift in Reactions No2 Anthology, Broken Lines & The Tao of the Keys in Lodestones Anthology, and Mid March in Poetry Nottingham.

The poem Let There Be No War by 8-year old Nela from Kosova appeared in the anthology Voices for Kosovo edited by Rupert Loydell and published by Stride in conjunction with Children’s Aid Direct. The collaborative poem Stars Open Among the Lilies was composed and exhibited as part of the Ledbury Festival 2000 sean burn’s voltaire choruses was a year of the artist commissioned work in 2001, (with visual artist andrew hardie), has been shown & performed widely, & published by ash.nu media, Newcastle upon Tyne.

The 5 haibun by Rupert Loydell/Roselle Angwin are taken from A Hawk Into Everywhere (Stride Publications, 2001).

Paul Bullock’s Marshmallow Eve & Ever Jack is a long continually expanding performance poem which has been performed throughout the East Midlands to increasing popular demand. More excerpts from this poem will appear in future issues. Likewise Words for Women are a group of women writers who have performed their collaborative text First Person Singular throughout the West Midlands.

The poems from children in Dorset have been published in the Minding the Gap anthology (East Street Poets, see book list below). An earlier version of Stephen C. Middleton’s It was so stuffy, Thelonious appeared in Stride magazine in 1987.

Anne Duden’s long poem Arbeitsplätze appeared in its original German in Stuttgart in 1988. In all these cases I am extremely grateful for permission to publish.

Books received / recommended (all published in 2001)

- from Redbeck Press, 24 Aireville Rd Friznghall Bradford BD9 4HH Keith Chandler, A Different Kind Of Smoke (£5.95) - Michael Curtis, Serotonin Days (£7.95) - Martin Hayes, Letting Loose the Hounds (£5.95) - George Jowett, The Old Campaigners (£3.95) - Tulio Mora, A Mountain Crowned by a Cemetery (£7.95) - Stuart Pickford, The Basics (£6.95) - Kim Taplin, From Parched Creek (£6.95) - Barry Tebb, The Lights of Leeds (£7.95) Steve Urwin, Tightrope Walker (£5.95).- from West House Books, 40 Crescent Rd Nether Edge Sheffield S7 1HN - Blaise Cendrars (trans. Tony Baker), Prose of the Trans-Siberian - Geraldine Monk, Noctivagations - Catherine Wagner, Hotel Faust. - from etruscan hooks, 28 Fowlers Court Fore St Buckfastleigh Devon TQ11 0AA - Helen Macdonald, Shaler’s Fish Magiie O’Sullivan, red shifts. - from Leviathan, Ivory’s Farm Burnt House Lane Cowfold Horsham RH13 8DQ - Giles Goodland, A Spy in the House of Years - Stephanos Papadopoulos, Lost Days. (each £8.00). from the collective press c/o Penlanlaes Farm Liantillo Pertholey Y-Fenni Gwent NP7 7HN - Ric Hool, Voice from a Correspondent (£6.50). from Parthian Books, 53 Colum Rd Cardiff CF10 3EF - Lloyd Robson, Cardiff Cut (£5.99). from Bloodaxe Books, Highgreen Tarset NE48 1RP - Gaiway Kinnell, Selected Poems (£9.95). from Anvil Press, 70 Royal Hill London SE10 8RF - James Harpur, Oracle Bones (£7.95). from Arc Publications, Nanholme Mill Shaw Wood Rd Todmorden Lancs OL14 6DA - Emma-Jane Arkady, Lithium (£6.95). from Clamp Down Press, Cape Porpoise Maine 04014-7270 USA -David Mason Heminway It Isn’t Every Day. from Liquid Paper Press, PO Box 4973 Austin Texas 78765 USA - Joshua Bodwell, Are You just Getting Up? from Pudding House Publications, 60 North Main Street Johnstown Ohio 43031 USA - Donna Hubert, Greatest Hits 1989 - 2000. from I Want Press, 23 rue Violet 75015 Paris - Lynne Hjelmgaard, Manhattan Sonnets, a memoir, from MPT, The School of Humanities, King’s College London, Strand London WC2R 2L5 - Mother Tongues, Non English-Language Poetry in England (anthology) £8.95. from East Street Poets, George Mann Publications, Easton Winchester Hampshire S021 1ES - Minding the Gap Anthology (£7.99). from Spout Publications, The Media Centre 7 Northumberland Street Huddersfield HD1 1RL - Eleanor Rees, Feeding Fire (£5.00) - Ralph Hancock, Hermit Space (£6.00).