Ian McMillan
Introduction
Welcome to the new issue of Dream Catcher. Enjoy. A recent report said that languages all over the world are dying out at a remarkable rate; some are reduced to only a dozen speakers, some to just one or two. When these languages, from Brazil to China, finally die with their speakers, think of all the stories and poetry and charred legends and experiences that will die with them.
That’s where magazines like this come in: a true magazine helps to keep language alive, keeps it refreshed, keeps it reinventing itself. When people weep about apostrophes in the wrong place they’re weeping for a fossilised language, one that can never develop. Dream Catcher is a language development machine. You might say that English is safe enough, it’s a dominant language, colonising all in its path. Yep, but we want the language to fulfil its potential, to recreate, redefine, and what better way than so-called ‘literary’ writing to do this?
Read and then write. Write and then read.
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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