Poetry Forum

"Ah, the Maypole. It was just a little supermarket, wasn't it?" I note, apropos next to nothing, that my grandad's brother managed one. Swansea branch. This bit was excellent..."creaking gamely overhead like some absurd Heath Robinson alpine cable car". Nostalgic, of course, but ...

I have just found out that this is likely to have been one of the last poems by Cheryl Leverette. Some of the older hands here are likely to know her from visits to Poetry Circle, where she had posted for many years. Sadly, I learn that she died very recently.


Seth

Geoff! Good grief, I heard you got killed down in that shoot out in Ecuador along with Butch and Sundance. So it turns out you were in a different gang and in Nutwood.

I am such a Rupert fan that I cannot assess anything Rupert related without judging it = excellent.

Hail

Seth

Ta, Mac. It is, I suppose, the main Highlands/Islands literary magazine, so well known in these parts...and publicly funded and free. In part, in large part, because it prints work in Gaelic. Many of the folk of Scottish literary life are there somewhere in previous editions.

Very pleased, as always, to be appearing in the new edition...with 3 poems...and a poem by my dad. :D We've appeared a few times now, but I always take great delight in seeing a joint appearance. This makes us the biggest father/son literary pair in, o, perhaps the whole village. http://www.northwor...

Well done, Tristan!

Congrats!

Congrats, Mac. Yes, I remember that one.

Greetings, Luke Nice touches, but the fallen leaves/lost generations pairing feels a little well worn now. Do you know the classic of the genre, The Leaf Burners by Ernest Rhys? One of my favourites. I also wonder if there is enough specifically about the prims? I think something more specifically a...

I am more than happy to have a poem in...

https://www.indigodreams.co.uk/for-the- ... 4594451393

Well done, JJ!

Congrats, Tristan!

Liked it, the idea, the ending, the ash.

Seth

Ah, Sandy Denny. I recall that the admirable Geoff, our one time fellow PGer, was a big fan.

Greetings, Silent! Here is my punt at an interpretation. One person is showing too little respect....by stopping the ambulance with such trivia...an idiot narcissist. The other is showing too much...by whispering in a context in which she would, if her beliefs were true, lack the reason to whisper. ...

Very good, Mac

Congrats To David and Ros and (trumpet!!) none other than Luke! Huzzah for all.

Seth

Thanks, Tristan, jj, David, Mac

Mac, yes, my father insists on sometimes calling it a whitearse.

Greetings JJ :D I like the portrait, but I did wonder about what might seem to be quite a bit of redundancy. I wonder if "one" is already implied by "fused"? Do you need to say that his garden was a "private place"? Or that it was "quiet"?...how loud would it ...

The Poetry Biz has a Running themed anthology taking submissions....for those of you who run to the chip shop.
http://poetrybusiness.co.uk/news/232/49 ... on-running

Shooter has an Identity themed edition.

https://shooterlitmag.com/submissions/

I have a poem in the new edition of the still new Nitrogen House...Scotland based e-zine. Nice site, nice editor, also keen on short stories.
http://nitrogenhouse.com/

It has shifted a generation in the new editor, Georgi Gill...and is now perhaps slightly more on the experimental end of things. It shifted to Scotland under the old editor and has stayed in the new hands. I will miss the old print mag, which I always thought of as being very good. Still, brave new ...

It has, like Dr Who, gone through one of its occasional changes and is now purely on-line....

https://theinterpretershouse.org/

Congrats,
Tristan.
Result.

Congrats, both!