Literary reviews by Tim Love.
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Showing posts with label Rory Waterman and Nick Everett (eds). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rory Waterman and Nick Everett (eds). Show all posts

Tuesday, 14 May 2013

"New Walk 6", Rory Waterman and Nick Everett (eds)

An illustrated A4 magazine with 6 pages of stories, 30 pages of poems, 9 pages of reviews, 9 pages of essays/review-essays, and 4 pages of author bios/interviews. The 2 essays are about Lowell and Rosmarie Waldrop. Poetry ranges from rhyme to prose poem - Matthew Welton, Christopher Reid, etc. Even within pieces, there's a range: the prose (by Jonathan Taylor) is rather poetic and has embedded poetry; Reid's poems don't need the line-breaks.

Most of the authors (amongst them editors and ex-editors of magazines/presses) have published at least one book. That's not always a recipe for success but in this case there's barely a so-so contribution. Its masthead describes it as a magazine "for poetry and the arts" though maybe there are too many pictures for my liking.