One of our grads, Shirley Bell, has a poem in The North 52 AND she is a Poet of the Week on the Poetry Super Highway (Facebook group) – “online during the week of June 23-29… and then forever thereafter on the Past Featured Poets archive section.”!
More about Shirley at her blog.
The first issue of MISO magazine is now available. MISO is the literary magazine for creative writing undergrads, postgrads and recent graduates
Issue 1 includes interviews with Forward Prize-winning poet Emily Berry and Frank O’Connor Prize-winning short story writer Simon van Booy.
It also includes new writing from:
Marita Algroy – University of Roehampton
Jenna Clake – University of Birmingham
Aiden Clarkson – Keele University
Krishan Coupland – University of East Anglia
Kate Garrett – Sheffield Hallam University
Rachel Hyde – University of Kent
Rebecca McManus – University of East Anglia
Lotte Mitchell Reford – University of Glasgow
Michael Kealan Moore – National University of Ireland, Galway
Lynda Nash – University of Swansea
Yohann Okyemba-Ngassaki – University of Gloucestershire
Julianne Pachico – University of East Anglia
Joe Michael Payne – Bangor University
Naomi Poltier – University of Exeter
Hugh Thomas – University of Gloucestershire
To order a copy and to find out more about it go to MISO.
Prof John Whale with the sculpture bequeathed to the editors of P&A magazine in its early days.
Saturday, 19 October, 2013
Editors past and present, together with various poets, magazine editors and current students gathered at the School of English at Leeds University to celebrate 60 years of Poetry & Audience.
Poetry & Audience is one of the longest-running poetry magazines in the UK and owes its longevity as much to the frequently crisis-driven student-owned nature of its existence as to the commitment of the School of English. It also forms an integral part of the strong literary tradition of Leeds, which includes JRR Tolkien and poets such as Geoffrey Hill, James Kirkup, Tony Harrison, Ken Smith, Jeffrey Wainwright, Jon Glover, William Price (“Bill”) Turner, Paul Mills and many others.
The anniversary involved a roundtable discussion of poetry magazine publishing, readings by P&A poets and editors and individual accounts of the history of P&A (Michael Blackburn, Elaine Glover, John Goodby, Emma Must, Chris Nield, Antony Rowland, Jeffrey Wainwright).
The event was hosted by Prof John Whale, with sessions chaired by Fiona Becket, Hannah Copley and Emily Timms (who also arranged an exhibition of P&A materials). Many thanks to all of them and anyone who I’ve forgotten to mention.
Participants: Michel Blackburn, Carole Bromley, Elaine Glover, Evan Jones, Paul Maddern, Adam Piette, John Goodby, Jay Parker, Christie Oliver-Hobley, Sarah Webster, Amy Ramsey, Mick Gidley, Elaine Glover, Emma Must, Antony Rowland, Jeffrey Wainwright, Hannah Copley, Eleanor Ford, Daniel Boon.
Current and former students of Lincoln may want to submit work to P&A, of course.
Students on the 2012-2013 year of the MA in Creative Writing have published an impressive paperback anthology of their own work.
The Black Path 1 (a second collection is nearing completion) comprises poems, flash fiction, short stories and novel extracts written by the students during the course of their studies.
What’s special about the book is that the students took the publishing initiative themselves, building on what they had learned during the MA. All the writing, collation, editing, design, typesetting and marketing is student-driven. Overall Editor is Shirley Bell, already a well-published poet.
The Black Path 1 is 132 pages long and can be bought from Amazon at £6.58.
A reading by contributors to the anthology will take place in the University on Wednesday, 23 October, 12.00 – 1.00 in room MC0025. More details to follow.
Contributors: Shirley Bell, Cassandra Cash, Stephen Blessett, Laura Clipson, Tina Daley, Stewart Norvill, Muayyad Elwaheidi, Jennifer Fytelson, Joel Leverton, Ian Turner, Matt Ellis and Rosemary Temple.
Details here about Miso Magazine, a new mag for creative writing students.
This is is at everywritersresource.
This site contains Poetry Library’s free access non-profit-making online archive of English 20th and 21st century poetry magazines which is part of the library’s ongoing digitisation project funded by the Arts Council England.
The Poetry Library launched www.poetrymagazines.org.uk in 2003. It aims to reach new audiences and preserve the magazines for the future.
It already holds more than 6,000 poems published in over 50 different magazines, with work by Fleur Adcock, Jen Hadfield, Seamus Heaney, Michael Horovitz, Jackie Kay, Edwin Morgan, Paul Muldoon, Les Murray, Sheenagh Pugh, Owen Sheers, Fiona Sampson, Penelope Shuttle and many more.
The website has been selected by the British Library to be archived by its digital heritage web archiving project, the UK Web Archive.
Source: The South Bank Poetry Library.
Some old, some new and some departed.