Orbis 209, Autumn 2024

Orbis 209, Autumn 2024

Front cover artwork: ‘Underworld’ by David Jones
Back cover, detail from image: www.davidjonesart.artweb.com

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Orbis 200: What a beautiful looking edition ! Must get this. 
Congratulations on the magazine’s longevity and high standards

  (Anna Saunders, Director at Cheltenham Poetry Festival)

Orbis 200: ‘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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Single issue: £6.00 (Overseas: £12/€14/$16); Subs: £20/4 pa (Overseas: £45/€50/$60)

Associate Editor (Book Reviews): Maria Isakova-Bennett

Reviews by: Philip Dunkerley, David Harmer, Jenny Hockey,
D.A. Prince, Theresa Sowerby, Pam Thompson

Please note with new collections, press release in first instance
to the Book Reviews Editor – not review copies.

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Literary journal that we are, still room of course for Dr. Basudhara Roy’s 
Littoral Dream, and I expect you, along with Sue Wallace-Shaddad 
will be Finding That Connection though perhaps at first a little Adrift,
like Kathryn Daszkiewicz. If so, join Gill McEvoy at The Sunday
Quaker Meeting, and then Mike Farren could introduce you to 
Lily, Edmund and boy, or Ian Harker, to The Shape-Shifting Ghosts
Of Byland Abbey; the latter may also make you wonder,
as does Nigel King:   Where is thy sting? Well, instead, you
and Linda Ann Strang  could be  Swimming The Sacramento,
or discovering why Kevin Bailey  is At Eastbury, Berkshire. 
And if you worry about it all going  To dust (Andy Oram),
or feeling Blue, maybe Sukrita Paul Kumar’s poem
can help, or Patrick Moran’s Robin –
 or any of those waiting for you to enjoy in this issue.

Featured Writers

More winning poems from the Red Shed Competition:

Heather DeLand, Bound for Greatness;
Lisa Falshaw, Love letter & Birds at Bempton Cliffs;
Mike Farren, Lily, Edmund and boy;
Ian Harker, The Shape-Shifting Ghosts Of Byland Abbey;
Nigel King, Where is thy sting?

Poets include Keko Prijatelj, His wife and himself;
Anne Sheppard, I sit here sipping pink champagne;
Linda Ann Strang, Ghost in the Jonquil;
Ping Yi Yee, The Blade Sings Life: Safety First

Prose from Rosie Adamson-Clark, A Woman Of Syria;
Anthony Head, Last Post from Tokyo;
Anne Sheppard, The Birthday Present 

Translation: Marc Tritsmans, Nadering; translated by John Irons

Past Master: A C Clarke on Paul Éluard

Orbis 209 Contributors also include
Anna Bowles; Attracta Fahy; Linda Ford; Bill Greenwell; Pauline Hall;
Chris Hardy; Betty Hasler; Derek Healy; DG Herring; Dr Kuli Kohli;
John Lanyon; Daphne Milne; Annie Klier Newcomer; Donna Pucciani;
Chris Scriven; Colm Scully; Michael Swan; Vivienne Tregenza

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