July 2022

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Editor Carole Baldock has also provided proofs with editorial suggestions for every contributor for the past 20 years…

 

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regardless of what the date counter says
(because I keep forgetting to update it), unless –

I’m busy wondering how come Idris Elba
claims it’s Summer which inspires his poem
rather than an awful lot of money
from Booking.com?

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Orbis 200, Summer 2022

All the best to you, and to Orbis! (Glyn Maxwell;
shortlisted for Best Collection in the Forward Prize)

‘Best wishes for the journal – and congratulations on such a successful magazine
over the years’ (Joy Harjo, United States Poet Laureate)

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Subs: £19/4 pa (Overseas: £42/€50/$60)

Associate Editor (Book Reviews): Maria Isakova Bennett
Please note with new collections, press release in first instance – not review copies.

Reviews by Philip Dunkerley; David Harmer; Jenny Hockey; D.A. Prince;
Pauline Rowe; Theresa Sowerby; Andrew Taylor; Lynne Taylor

Front cover artwork: designed by Tony Murphy

And here it is – you got the big issue:
Guest Poets, Featured Poets – and most of the poets chosen by you.
Yes, some doom and gloom but plenty of laughs along the way,
some of it quite surreal. Would you like to find out more,
eg Something I learned from Great Aunt Ethel? Christina Buckton
has the answer, or why Lord Egremont decides to change course
(Joy Wassell Timms), and how come Oz Hardwick is seeing Red –
never mind Sam Smith (facing a losing battle if you ask me):
Cat and I, impassive, face to face. What’s our Reviews Editor,
Maria Isakova Bennett doing at Coburg Wharf looking South and North?
And David Harmer, busy Finding Stuart’s Bar,
while Matt Bryden has adopted another identity
it seems, when Clark Kent Revisits the Family Farm. Maggie Butt enjoys
the Last Swim of the Season, though not so much fun for Sean Howard,
who is missing poems (berkhamsted, herts).
Shall we join David Mark Williams for some Adventurous Knitting,
or Michael Henry at The Bookseller’s Lunch? And hands up all those,
like Annie Klier Newcomer, who knew Antimony has two meanings,
or what exactly is the Suburban Secret? Let’s ask Eve Jackson, nicely,
And celebrate; every issue is special of course, but this one really is extra special…

Featured Poets

Hilary Mellon: Sleep; On Lensfield Road; The Sentence;The Busker

Michael Swan Ibex; tasting notes; rivers go where rivers go

Guest Poets: Simon Armitage; Gillian Clarke:Glyn Maxwell

Poems from: John Cassidy; The Big Dub: John Lindley, A Hutch Full Of Heaneys:
Nessa O’Mahony, Komorebi; Julie-ann Rowell Hether Blether

Prose from Katriona Campbell, Stelle cadente, Philip Dunkerley, Solution;
Verity Oswin, Dark Flight; Denise McSheehy,The Plate Spinner

Translation: Laura Chalar: Fernando Pessoa

Orbis 200 Contributors also include

Daragh Bradish; Alison Chisholm; Gladys Mary Coles; Terence Culleton;
Brian Daldorph; Patrick Deeley; Gail Dendy; María Castro Dominguez;
Attracta Fahy; Martin Figura; Simon Fletcher ; Isabel Greenslade;
Max Gutmann; Kevin Higgins; Jenny Hockey; Gaia Holmes;
Jack Houston; Fred Johnston; Christine Lao; Rupert M Loydell;
Gill McEvoy; Afric McGlinchey; Jennifer A McGowan; Tom Moody;
Lani O’Hanlon; Jo Peters; Jenna Plewes; D.A. Prince; Frances Sackett;
Myra Schneider; K. V. Skene; Ewan Smith; Christopher Southgate;
Theresa Sowerby; Pam Stocker; Andrew Taylor; Lynne Taylor; Karla Van Vliet;
June Wentland; Robin Lindsay Wilson; Chris Woods; Stephen Yeo

 

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