Idris Caffrey
Reviews
Malfunctions Press
...irregular issues and believed to be free for a couple of stamps.
3, Tram Lane, Buckley, Flintshire, CH7 3JB A5 30pp
Malfunctions Press magazines are very well presented and the minute you pick one up you get the sense that here is an editor who cares about the writers within its pages. Every other issue is a themed one and certainly the themes editor John Francis Haynes comes up with are a real challenge for any poet. The general issue, here called “Stark,” has twenty poems and a few short stories. The quality of the poetry is rather mixed with some very good pieces by A.K.Whitehead and the late Giovanni Malito and a few where contrived rhymes rather grate. The themed issue, called “The Fountain” included some real gems. This from Gregory Arena` poem “Leaving Illiers in the Morning” –
“The sun was screaming bright colours
Through the stained glass clouds.
It rolled out of its nightly womb…”
Here is a press worth investigating – for readers and writers alike.
...irregular issues and believed to be free for a couple of stamps.
3, Tram Lane, Buckley, Flintshire, CH7 3JB A5 30pp
Malfunctions Press magazines are very well presented and the minute you pick one up you get the sense that here is an editor who cares about the writers within its pages. Every other issue is a themed one and certainly the themes editor John Francis Haynes comes up with are a real challenge for any poet. The general issue, here called “Stark,” has twenty poems and a few short stories. The quality of the poetry is rather mixed with some very good pieces by A.K.Whitehead and the late Giovanni Malito and a few where contrived rhymes rather grate. The themed issue, called “The Fountain” included some real gems. This from Gregory Arena` poem “Leaving Illiers in the Morning” –
“The sun was screaming bright colours
Through the stained glass clouds.
It rolled out of its nightly womb…”
Here is a press worth investigating – for readers and writers alike.
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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