Chris addresses new readers of poetry … The Recent Pathology of Poetry Read more: The Recent Pathology of Poetry tags: poetry , publishing , pathology …

A message to Our Readers 30th May 2008 We are emerging from a period when published poetry has been the well-managed art of an isolated and notoriously small elite into a more expansive and deregulated market focused outwards towards its audience. Poet …

Erin Belieu offers a simply knockout review of Don Share?s Squandermania in the Boston Review . It is also heartening to encounter a poet who is willing to risk writing a book that not everyone will have the patience to explore. There is something ulti …

The Robert Burns Centre saw the welcome return last week of two well-kent writers who took part in a Short Story Evening. Linda Cracknell, who has been involved with the CREATE Team doing workshops in Dumfries and Galloway schools, and Sara Maitland, G …

How chuffed am I — I’ve been invited by the wonderful people at Frank O’Connor Prize to attend their awards festival in September! They have asked me to take part in a round-table discussion on the short story. I am so pleased to be invited; what a fa …