small press scene
ireland + scotland
Akros 25p. duncan glen. 14 parklands eve, penwortham, preston. the magazine of new scottish poetry. the mag is not as bulky as it has been but the standard is still maintained at its old and very high level.
no 22 david black / robin munro / ken morrice / donald campbell / frederic lindsay / & others.
no 23 edwin morgan / kenneth white / david mitchell / reviews & letters / etc.
All The Words Under The Sun by peter mackie. an emerging poet who distributes his poetry free from 3 linale hse, murray grove, london n1. mimeo format. attempts at surrealism that fail and too easy prose. the ideas are there however.
Broadsheet (19) hayden murphy. 10 herbert lane, dublin 2. at 10p a throw this genuine broad sheet (its big) is good value. both sides covered with quality & unusual poems. victor ouzin / cristoir o floinn/ faller / ryan / montale / mike horovitz / & numerous others.
Caret (4) 15p. trevor mcmahon. 31 marlborough park central, belfast BT9 6HN. lively offset of poetry & fiction. tends towards an uneven finish. curtis / lindop / conn / warner / cook / scupham / &c.
Carn (1) 20p. frang macthomais. the celtic league. 9 br cnoc sion, dublin 9. "a link between celtic nations" - a unique magazine with its text (in parts) in all the celtic tongues. content is cultural & political with nationalism the theme running throughout.
Chapman (vol 2 no 3) 20p. walter perrie. 118 brankholm brae, hamilton, lanarks. "blast" issue which tries to convey the old spirit but ends up too bound by that typically blinkered and very english attitude to poetry. lyn lifshin / peter russell / richard burns / mckillop / glen / oxley / dick russell / robert calder / graham / gordon / & many others.
Envoi ed: j.c.meredith scott. lagan nam bann, ballachulish, argyl. remarks in the last issue of second aeon pointed to the dullness of this magazine. editor scott writes in response "Though not necessarily in an immediate issue, Envoi may be moving in the direction of - perhaps amusingly - giving you / your publication some adverse publicity if you continue to give Envoi an unfair deal or a deal less satisfactory that it feels it should know about. yours sincerely ......." i cant wait. latest issues to hand follow the established style.
no 47 pain / cox / henderson smith / rainford / warren / stiven / reviews etc
no 48 pettit / mason / nigel jenkins / orr / &c.
Icarus (66) regent house, trinity college, dublin. student style poetry mag with more than the expected number of good poems: scully / kennelly / fallon / cunningham / pellegrini / &c.
Idiots are Freelance by alan Jackson. 40p. rainbow books. bogenjoss house, kirkhill, dyce. a compact, small & neat booklet of poems in the jackson tradition. these are mainly short, often crypticpieces of jackson humour and irreverence. on the ball stuff.
The Rise and Fall of Id 10p. eye publications. 21 deramore drive, belfast BT9 5JR. a celebration of the famous battle torn literary magazine of belfast. open and underground, nonpolitical, free. this collection of mimeo sheets, litho inserts and other bits of paper reprints some of the best stuff from the magazines history in the form of fiction, article, poem & cartoon.
Shetland, Like The World by robin munro. 50p. triangle press. maryculter house, maryculter, aberdeenshire. open air, island, nature, earth & sky poems. a landscape with events.
A Truth Lover by john herdman. £1.30. akros publications, preston, lancs. a first "novel" by a young scots writer. it takes the form of a journal written by an ex-student suffering from a characteristically scottish "perversion of the will." the record consists partly of narrative, partly of reminiscence, fantasy & musings, through which the narrator attempts a partial progress towards self-knowledge - seen only through his own eyes & mind, with the limitations that implies. i couldn't finish it, slightly heavy going like an ethical tract. well-written though, on the side of extreme reticence. a good, worrying, scots-nationalist mind at work, struggling for clarity. jt.
The Voices by brendan kennelly. 60p. gallery books. 19 oakdown rd, dublin 14. a rather high priced small collection of poems. strong, self analytical stuff, well formed.
Zygote (1) 5p. clement caldwell. 32 glenconner rd, ayr. new local poetry mag with the history of its formation as its editorial. poetry is uneven but broken by news, notes & reviews.seeks the occasional non-local guest poet and requests small press material for future review.
poetrymagazines' note:
the initials jt follow reviews by john tripp
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