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“A rhyme must have in it some slight element of surprise if it is to give pleasure; it need not be bizarre or curious, but it must be well used, if used at all” Ezra Pound from ‘A Retrospective’. Nudge #12 Taking the wintery and challenging subject of ‘snow’ write a poem with at least five verses using rhyme. They
Di Slaney is a Nottinghamshire-based marketer, publisher and smallholder. She co-owns Candlestick Press. Di has been published in a variety of magazines, was shortlisted for the 2014 Bridport Prize and won the 2014 Brittle Star Poetry Prize. Jonathan Doering lives in West Yorkshire with his wife and son and teaches English. His work has also appeared in: Cascando, Sheaf, LitSpeak,
The Short Story is Dead! Long Live the Short Story! That phrase, ‘the king is dead, long live the king,’ used to irritate me as a kid. It never made sense – it does now, but it didn’t then. This is probably due to the fact that people used it to talk about Elvis Presley so it really didn’t make
So we ran a wee competition called #pimpmystar. We had some slight seconds issue 34s for sale at the reduced price of £3 and asked you to use the (slightly marked) covers to come up with your own, individual issue 34 covers – and tweet them, pinterest them or facebook them. We had a good bunch of people buy copies
