I don't usually write about the magazines I read, but I've not written about Stand for a while. It's landscape A5, 144 2-column pages - 7 pages of reviews (2 books), a 10 page essay on Isaac Rosenberg, about 40 pages of stories, and the rest is poetry.
Compared to other magazines I've recently read (Poetry Review, North, etc) it's rather conservative. The layouts aren't fancy and the bios don't list disabilities and conditions. Some names (e.g. Roger Garfitt, Josh Ekroy) have been around a long time. I don't recall seeing Stand pieces in the yearly anthologies of poetry and prose.
Angus Gaunt's story did little for me. Sarada Gray's story is fun - thanks to a time-machine the narrator meets George Orwell (who "had a bit of a rep for being Eeyore-ish" but was ok after all). Elliott Burnett's story is stylish, though I couldn't quite follow the plot.
George Moore's "The Dylan Thomas Poem" ends well with "words/ tumble out of their swings like children". Antony Mair's 3-page landscape poem is beyond me.
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