The Journal
'...an international magazine in the tradition of Poesie Europe, Ecuatorial, and Labrys. It publishes poems in English, in particular by English-language poets in exile, translations into English alongside the originals, interviews with poets, and appraisals of current poetry scenes...' Wolfgang Görtschacher
'A plainly elegant layout, making the most of its size to incorporate sequences and longer poems, articles and plenty of reviews .... The contents are global ... all saying what has to be said, in ways and words you wish you'd imagined. Shining intelligence, to brighten and inspire serious poetry lovers.' Orbis
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'Few publications deliver consistently good issues — The Journal is among them. Filled with well-written poems from some of the best contemporary poets I've ever read, The Journal is the definitive showpiece of the small press. Each issue also contains thorough book and journal reviews composed by writers whose love of literature is evident.' Hyacinthe L. Raven Via Dolorosa Press (USA)
'...interesting and experimental while avoiding the obscure and unnecessarily difficult. Add to the excellent selection of poetry, some interesting and insightful reviews and The Journal is a must for anyone who loves poetry and is not afraid of a bit of experimentation and the new insights that this can bring.' Juliet Wilson
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UK
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#26 The Journal - out now! -
has Rob Morgan pondering his education in poetry, Paul Sutton considering a millionaire's self-promotion, and reviews by Emma Lee, Andrew Taylor, Frances Thompson and Paul Lee.
It being The Journal's raison d'être there are of course also poems in #26
- by Bruce Ackerley, Christopher Allan, Kevin Bamford, Lance Calabrese, Terri Brown-Davidson, Reid Bush, David Callin, Michael Ceraolo, Eleanor Clare, Holly Day, Peter Day, Chris Deakins, Kevin Densley, Deborah Gordon, Mark Leech, Gary Lehmann, Genista Lewes, Paul Murphy, Naran, W. Dale Nelson, Carlos Nogueiras, Thomas Ország-Land, Matthew Porubsky, Miklós Radnóti, M. A. Schaffner, Tate Sherman, Nigel Smith, Jayne Stanton, Jocelyne Thébault, Carol Thistlethwaite, J.S.Watts and F.J. Williams
Enjoy!
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one of Bruce Ackerley's front cover poems from #26
Newfoundland
A house
on the stone shore
and in its dust
your name.
Much the kind of place
where one grows mute
on a honed detachment –
a little trappist
in his reeking plaid.
A box with a roof:
walls stripped
by the salt’s tenacity.
Zinc-greys
and in the sound
the hull
of a passing berg.
The fogs go on for years –
so plenty of time
to understand
how a dead heart
completes its mission.
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* poems in English please, or translations into English (about 6 at a time)
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editorial policy is '...to try to publish those poems — from wheresoever they may come — written with thought to what the poem is saying and to how it is being said. Also welcomed are poems that can travel, that can cross boundaries, that do not assume in their readers a shared knowledge nor a shared set of beliefs. And it will be a rare day when I take a poem about being a poet or about the writing of poems. Also, because my aim is to keep The Journal secular, any poem containing religious terminology will not be considered for publication....'
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