170+ A6 pages. Fiction 14 pages (a Rilke story). Poems 38 pages. Re-Reading 22 pages. Arts 18 pages. Insolence & Triviality 20 pages. Reviews 52 pages. The pieces are written by "TD", "HG" etc - you need to consult the "Key to contributors" to see who did what. Carrie Etter, Karen Solie, Martyn Crucefix and Vona Groarke are among the contributors. Each poet wrote a review.
At the launch the editor Tristan Fane Saunders said he'd rather things be wrong than boring. He pointed out that "The Little Review" which lasted from 1912 to 1929 once contained 12 blank pages because the submissions hadn't been good enough.
"The Music of the Spheres" by David Wheatley is fun. The reviews/articles are a good read too. One review of a recent poetry collection has "In attempting to move further from tatty old theology towards the prestige of literature [] he can't seem to leave behind theology's verbosity and woolliness. It often dribbles into bathos ... it's quite an achievement to get so much repetition and redundancy into such a short poem".
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