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Poetry Cornwall #7,8,
Palores Publications, 1 Station Hill, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 2PP £3.50 or £10 for 3 issues, A5 44pp
To say that almost every stereotypical image of Cornwall appears in Poetry Cornwall is perhaps a little unfair, but reading the magazine inevitably conjures up childhood holidays, pasties, Jethro, Arthurian influences, tin mines, clay workings at Nanpean, the Eden Project, et al. Yet Poetry Cornwall is more than this. It is making a substantial attempt at being the voice of a region trying to project its identity onto the 21st century. It also welcomes poetry from outside Cornwall as if to acknowledge that a region cannot isolate itself from the rest of the world there is a selection of poetry in translation in each issue. This covers mainly Goidelic languages but French, Italian, and Maori also appear. An interesting feature is that which allows editors of other poetry magazines to introduce their publication and provide a sample of their own poetry. Poetry Cornwall has an over-reliance on short poems; in fact the submission guidelines impose a limit of 36 lines, which has to include stanza breaks. Longer work is only accepted by prior agreement. This gives the magazine a slightly jerky feel; a few longer poems would vary the rhythm, both visually and aurally.
Slipped inside issue 8 was a folded sheet entitled Bard, issue 22, published by D.J. Piper, 38 Pierrot Steps, 71 Kursal Way, Southend-on-Sea, SS1 2UY. No way of telling if this is a full issue or just a sampler, but the eight poems contained in it were of a fairly good standard.
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