It is hard to believe that it is only four months since I started to ask people to spare us their poetic change for ‘Arfur’, but I am pleased and proud to be able to say that we have finally got it all together and the first issue is about to go to print.
I’m a little new to this, as you know, so if this isn’t the done thing I’ll apologise now, but I thought it only right to say thank you to all of the people who submitted work, whether they ended-up in the magazine or not. It quite simply could have been hundreds of pages long and at times could well have ended-up that way.
In the end though, you have to choose and so here are the poets who have their work in this first edition:
- Beth McDonough
- Bill Herbert
- Brian Docherty
- Charlotte Begg
- Chen Chen
- D.M. Thomas
- Diana Devlin
- Eileen Carney Hulme
- Eileen Myles
- Georgina Titmus
- Jane Burn
- Joe Williams
- Johanna Boal
- Jonathan Jones
- Kristin Garth
- M.Stone
- Martin Malone
- Matt Duggan
- Megan Falley
- Melissa Wu
- Mimi Khalvati
- Moniza Alvi
- Nick Toczek
- Nigel Kent
- Peter J. King
- Phil Hawtin
- Rachel Burns
- Rob Sheppard
- Sanjeev Sethi
- Sarah Bigham
- Sarah Leavesley
- Sarah Thomson
- Sonia Davies
- Sophie Hannah
- Tawnya Renelle
- Victoria Richards
- Zoe Mitchell
The full line-up of articles, interviews and reviews will follow later.
If you’d like to pre-order a Deluxe copy of the magazine (and make sure there is a second issue!), you’d be more than welcome to visit HERE