WELCOME TO ACUMEN'S WEBSITE
Did you plant the sunflowers and are they growing?
Send some photos of your results
and I will put the best up in the website. Mine were planted late (due
to work on the anthology)
and are only about 25inches high (30 this week!). I gave some to my youngest grandson:
his are way above his head.
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Definite date for your diary:
28th October -- 1st November 2010
TORBAY POETRY FESTIVAL
on the English Riviera
The new TORBAY POETRY FESTIVAL
website
is now live on
www.torbaypoetryfestival.co.uk .
All the programme is now up plus news etc.
and photographs are promised within the week (or two/three/four?),
or
email for a programme and fill an order form in.
Download the Competition entry form.
Buy tickets through our secure on-line Shop using all major credit cards.
See some of the tantalizing views of Torbay, on the English Riviera.
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acumen 67 is still
available.
Great poems from Dannie Abse, Ruth Padel, Michael Longley,
Peter Porter and many more.
Also a discussion on how poetry is being affected by
the electronic age. This is a theme to be continued in discussions
at the Torbay Poetry Festival when three people who present
poetry in different ways discuss with the audience
how they show poetry to the world.
Plus another freebie to celebrate our 25th anniversary.
NEW POEMS from acumen
67 (posted 25/07/10)
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2010, sees acumen
reach its 25th birthday
and Torbay Poetry Festival is ten years old.
To celebrate its birthday, acumen
has published an anthology
chosen from the first 60 issues.
A gourmet feast of poetry.
If you haven't subscribed from its earliest issues,
buy the anthology to see how the magazine --
and its editor -- have developed over a quarter of a century.
One contributor called it 'the Palgrave for the 21st Century'.
The anthology is now available to purchase
at £9.99 a copy + £2.00 p&p
for over 300 pages of readable poems from many poets.
‘The time has come to reformulate the old dictum. We propose “Poetry is news that you don’t get on the ten o’clock news”. There are good poems in First Sixty ... you can receive a signal through the crackle of current events.’ -- Times Literary Supplement.
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NEW! NEW! NEW!
acumen occasional
pamphlets for 2010
are now available. See 'events' for more details.
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ABOUT THE MAGAZINE: acumen's 25th birthday year -- 2010 'Over the years, acumen has just got better and better'. Dannie Abse. 'A beacon of invention in the west, acumen's guiding light is valued throughout the wider world of letters. Printing the best, and not necessarily the most celebrated, is its policy.' Peter Porter. 'acumen's longevity is down to its editor's clarity of vision and generosity of spirit. It is that rare beast, a genuinely successful and inclusive poetry magazine.' Brian Patten. 'Congratulations to acumen on its 25th anniversary. Long may you continue to publish good poems and interesting articles.' Wendy Cope. 'Congratulations on the much loved and aptly named acumen.' Penelope Shuttle. 'acumen is invaluable for the range of original poems it publishes, for its support of translations and for the seriousness of its reviewing. Its special features and interviews serve the cause of poetry in a way few other magazines manage.' Alan Brownjohn. 'Happy 25th birthday.' Andrew Motion.
acumen is published three times a year (January, May and September), A5 perfect bound, with at least 120pp per issue. To find out more about the editors, their books and their readings, press side-button About Us. Contact us e-mail or snail-mail via Contacts. Subscribe to the magazine on-line at Subscriptions. To submit poems without exasperating editors read the guidelines on Submissions. Please do not send e-mail submissions without prior agreement.
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acumen 67 is NOW OUT! PLEASE send all books for review to the Book Reviews Editor at Swansea. |
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CONTENTS
acumen
67
Editorial
State of the Art of Poetry in the Electronic Age .Poems: Alwyn Marriage, Terry Quinn, Fiona Moore, Jonathan Taylor. Interview with Anne Stewart. Poems: James Coghill, John Daniel, Jean Atkin, Michael Longley, Ian Caws, Roy Cameron,C.J.P. Smith, William Oxley, Norman Buller, Michael Henry, L. D. Brodsky. The End of Mystery? – James AitchisonPoems: Roger Waterfield, Laura Soloman, Joseph Allen, Rhona McAdam, Caroline Natzler,Ruth Padel, David Gill. Responses. Poems: Norbert Hirschhorn, Angela Stoner, Derek Adams, John Wood.A Travesty of Swans – Martin Green.Poems: William Baer, Hugo Williams, Greg Moglia, Michael Jennings, Wynn Wheldon.Nine Lives Lived to the Full – Patricia OxleyObituary – John RetyPoems: Derrick Porter, Jeremy Page, Alec Hamilton, Peter Porter.Reviews: Belinda Cooke, William Bedford, William Oxley, M. Wynn Thomas, John Killick,Russell Hargrave, Fred Beake, Nigel Jarrett, C.J.P. Smith. Poetry Comment.
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