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Hat-trick of poems in The Frogmore Papers

Frogmore PapersThe Frogmore Papers are out – along with the daffodils and precocious tulips! Contributors include Ross Cogan, Sasha Dugdale, Claire Booker, Eoghan Walls, Wendy Klein and Andrew Pidoux.

Three of my poems appear in this latest issue:  ‘Impossible Lover’ (about a love affair I had with a seal off the isle of Lundy); ‘A Voyage Round Alan Bennett’ (a poem about the emotional impact of marginalia); and ‘Red Hair’ in which a young woman meets her biological father.

Poetry collections reviewed in The Frogmore Papers (issue 83) include ‘Vanishing Point by Clare Crossman (Shoestring Press) and ‘Hannah, are you listening?’ by Hamish Whyte (HappenStance). There are also a series of delightful black and white drawings by Clare Johnson at: www.clarejohnson.com The cover design is by Carol Lewis who lives in Hythe, Kent.

For more information or to buy a copy of issue 83 please check: www.frogmorepress.co.uk

The Frogmore Papers were founded in 1983 and are published in March and September each year. If you’d like to submit your work (poetry or prose) send hard copies to the editor, Jeremy Page, at 21 Mildmay Road, Lewis, East Sussex BN7 1PJ, UK (email submissions are accepted only from overseas via frogmorepress@gmail.com)

The Rialto – for good poetry and a damn fine cover!

Go grab a copy of The Rialto for the evocative cover alone! Then sit back and enjoy new poems by Les Murray, incisive memories of Seamus Heaney and work by poets including Alan Brownjohn, Chrissie Williams, Claire Booker, Jane Griffiths and David Morley.  Rialto (issue 78)

There’s also a highly instructive article on independent poetry presses by Rialto editor Michael Mackmin. If you’re a poet aspiring towards publication don’t miss it!

‘Punishment’ is one of my two poems published in this issue. It’s based on being forced to copy out pages of David Copperfield as a child.  I suspect my parents thought it would be an inspiring activity. Not a bit of it. Sadly, it gave me a life-long loathing of large (by the pound) Victorian novels. Parents be warned!

To purchase a copy of The Rialto (issue 78) or to submit poetry for the next issue, please visit http://www.therialto.co.uk

The cover illustration is Section from ‘Girl and three dogs’ by Dee Nickerson.