IN ISSUE 18 last update: 03 June 2008
ALSO OUT NOW:
Poetry from:
Vincent Berquez
Rachel Fox
Simon Rennie
Edward Lee
Paul Robinson
Geoff Stevens
Ken Champion
Lucy Winrow
Michael Lee Johnson
Richard Barrett
Michael Wilson
Sarah L. Dixon
Nigel Humphreys
Lincoln O'Neill
Neil Campbell
Helên Thomas
Natalie Williams
Featured Poet:
Mike Garry
WE ARE POETS!
by Helên Thomas
Multi-award winning poet and performer Helên's much anticipated collection for 7-11 year olds. Includes over 20 illustrations by Paul Neads.
"I love your poems so much, I think you deserve a treat," Year 1 pupil at Holy Spirit Primary School, Merseyside
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and
OCCAM'S BLUNT INSTRUMENT
by Dermot Glennon & Paul Neads
Occam's Razor states that the simplest explanation is usually the best - but is it? If you are tired of the mundane & decidedly unsuper natural world, then this book is for you.
Occam's Blunt Instrument - the most insanely convoluted explanation is usually the most amusing.
"Razor sharp," Salford Advertiser
"Utterly superb!" Marvin Cheeseman
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THE UGLY TREE |
BUY NOW/SUBSCRIPTION & SUBMISSION INFORMATION The Ugly Tree | Mucusart Publications | ISSN 1478 8349 | 148mm x 210mm | 48pp | £4.00 | Ed. Paul Neads The Ugly Tree is issued 3 times a year & welcomes unsolicited submissions. We do not discriminate between any forms of poetry and whilst we do have a penchant for the relationship of spoken & performance poetry to the page it is not necessarily our raison d’être. For submissions guidelines please see the relevant link. To get a taster of past issues visit the samples page - or better still, buy a copy!
James Hartnell, Write Out Loud review excerpt - Issue 17: In the beginning... City Life review excerpt - Issue 1: +++NEWS+++there will be no poetry competition in 2008 (it will return in 2009)+++see the link for Ballista magazine for our 2008 short story competition+++
Issue 4 of Mucusart Publications' speculative short fiction magazine, BALLISTA, is out NOW with news of our Short Story Competition with cash prizes. For further information, please click HERE Back to: The Library | Lit Shop | Reviews | Mucusart Home Page
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All other poets could benefit from reading these poems and noting the absence of cliché and bombast, the lack of arcane vocabulary and prolix phrases... There are many poems to which I shall return many times to taste the humour or the aural flow or the killer last line and wish that I’d written them.
I think the editor has the balance right in more than one sense. I recommend you buy it online immediately.
Recently, the UK Government Office of statistics launched an investigation to identify the most unequal ratio that it is mathematically possible to apply to any group... One paticular ratio trounced all others. The ratio of people who think they're poets to people who actually are. Full marks to The Ugly Tree for redressing the balance.
None of the poets featured here are bad enough to inspire crashing an open mic night with an Uzi. Some of them are actually (whisper it) pretty good.
Standouts include Tim [Cardiacs] Smith's scattered images and heart-on-sleeve politics, Brink's hilarious '12 Unnatural Practices of Country Folk' (any poem with the phrase "cup a squirrel's 'nads" in it has to be worth a mention), and the equally funny Arthur Chappell, whose 'Fetish' basically crossbreeds Pam Ayres and pornography. Roll on next issue...