News

  • Hermegasmica, a poem by Andrew Nightingale, is now available as a free ebook on the Shearsman website. The poem is a non-linear murder mystery based in Manchester. Meet Alan Turing, Billie Holiday and Harry Haller (from Steppenwolf) on the same night in “Hermegasmica”, a shop that briefly appears in an old brick wall…

    [13-Jan-11 ]


  • Oversteps News 14

    [30-Nov-10 ]


  • Alwyn Marriage’s poem, ‘In Casa Tallone’, was included in ‘Reflections on Lake Orta’, published by Wyvern Works. To see video of her reading this poem, see

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxQlNn9EHNI

    [19-Oct-10 ]


  • Caroline Carver has won first prize in the Poems on the Buses 4 competition; and Anne Stewart and Ann Kelley were both commended.

    [19-Oct-10 ]


  • Alwyn Marriage and A C Clarke both had poems included in the anthology of bird poems, ‘No Space but their Own’, published by Grey Hen Press, 2010.

    [19-Oct-10 ]


  • Oz Hardwick has a poem in ‘The Iron Book of New Humorous Verse’, published by Iron Press, 2010.

    [19-Oct-10 ]


  • Ross Cogan had two poems in Assent (the new name for Poetry Nottingham), and has also recently had reviews published in Orbis and Acumen

    [19-Oct-10 ]


  • A C Clarke has two poems in the latest issue of Orbis

    [19-Oct-10 ]


  • Original Plus, a poetry press run by Sam Smith, editor of the The Journal, has published a pamphlet by Andrew Nightingale called The Black Madonna. The pamphlet costs £3 and can be purchased through the Original Plus website. The five poems in the pamphlet explore aspects of the lives and myths of Mata Hari, Ada Lovelace, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Isabelle Eberhardt and the Black Madonna in a variety of forms, both narrative and surreal, concrete and ekphrastic, lyrical and cut-up.

    [7-Oct-10 ]


  • Alwyn Marriage will be leading a poetry workshop at the Guildford Fringe at 10.00am on 30 October 2010.
    [23-Aug-10 ]