Orbis 210, Winter 2024
Front Cover Artwork: ‘Bauble‘ by Tiffany Budd;
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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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Jingle Bells…or jingle tills, a those of you with a more cynical mindset
may immediately think; Speaking of which, who doesn’t agree with
Faye Boland: Nobody Wants to Die, and end up In ‘The Ferryman’s Arms’
(Doreen Hinchliffe); Tim Love reminding us that
After great pain, a formal fee.
Moving swiftly on, it is also the time of year for The Family Reunion,
tho Pat Farrington’s version is a bit unusual. But why not treat yourself:
Mrs Hitchcock Gets Her Hair Done,Juliet Humphreys tells us.
And Xmas can be mystical…
let Khadija Rouf tell you a tale about a Mermaid, or harken to
Frances Sackett’s Song of a Rug and The Music In The Attic,
which David Mark Williams describes.
And if you’re curious about what Nigel Kent means by Libre,
or with Brian Daldorph, what happens Afterwards,
you can always enjoy plenty of excellent poems,
look no further than this issue of Orbis
Featured Writer
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, 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.
Featured Writer: Richard Williams
First Born; Dualling;
This ambition has been moved;
Strategy Meeting;
Dick Waving in the Czech Republic
Poets include Owen Bullock; Anna Akhmatova Caught In A Bob Dylan Song;
Rosie Hadden,The Fairmer’s Horse;
Juliet Humphreys, Mrs Hitchcock Gets Her Hair Done;
Garth Luetkemeier, Earthquake; Martine Padwell, If you were a hat,
Neil Rathmell, I had been dead for some time;
Kathryn Takara, My Ghanaian Name
Prose from Jenny King, Parshrink;
Charles Osborne, Red Balloon Girl; Lorna Sherry, Dada
Translation: Belinda Cooke, Ночь by Marina Tsvetaeva
Past Master: Jocelyne Thebault on Guillaume Apollinaire
Orbis 209 Contributors also include
Dan Boland ; Maggie Butt ; Susi Clare; Gareth Culshaw; Bill Dodd;
Lori Drummond-Mundal; Mary Earnshaw; Cosmo Goldsmith;
Isabel Greenslade; Alan Hardy; Tim Houghton; Lani O’Hanlon;
Neil Rathmell; Julia Stothard; Katherine Swett; Peter Viggers;
Robin Lindsay Wilson; Nicky Winder; Mantz Yorke; Alessio Zanelli
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