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WHAT'S NEW?
In response to constructive criticisms by several visitors (see Letters - Some Website Failings) we offer What's New as a short cut for busy readers who don't have time to wander round this vast site looking for new stuff. This will be kept up to date with the latest additions on top. Peter Harris writes about Surrealism, Trotsky and Me (Annexe) (added March 2010) Jack Debney's poem Covenant (Annexe) (added March 2010) We add to Jim Burns' essay on Henry Roth the Afterword to the 1964 paperback edition of Call It Sleep by Walter Allen (Archive/Prose) (added February 2010) Nigel Jarrett's jazz story Nights at the Misty Morning (Annexe) (added January 2010) S. Kadison's latest The Posh Girl and the Oik is added to the oeuvres complets (Annexe) (added Jan 2010) We trail the contents of the current issue 27 and add a subscription form (Coming Up) Alexis Lykiard re-writes his great Dunciad rant Questions Time and adds 9 new poems to his page in the Annexe (added Dec 2009) We have added a subscribe by credit card facility for those who find envelopes, stamps and a schlepp to the postbox too much of a hassle. (Contacts) A great survey of the poetry scene in the North East - North East Poetry - Debunking Some Myths by Keith Armstrong (Annexe) (added November 2009) The indefatigable Kadison does it again with A Sound Investment & Talking to the Dead (Annexe) (added November 2009) More Kadisons Katie Jameson - On Y Va and Subjective Evidence (Annexe) (added October 2009) Yet another Kadison (is this the reincarnated Maupassant?) Kim Rigard's Complaint (Annexe) (added October 2009) Four new poems by Mike Barlow - Prospect Street, Tremors, The Balcony, The Logic of Wires (Poetry) (added October 2009) A new Kadison story Castillos en España (Annexe) (Added October 2009) Five new stories by Ken Champion are added to his page. Art House, Religious Affairs, Fracture, The Beat Years and Semiology - this last appeared in PP23 but all the others are new to PP readers. (Annexe) (added October 2009) Alexis Lykiard adds a valedictory squib Buddy Language, on the Blair/Bush road-show, which is already starting to seem as distant as the reign of the Emperor Caligula (Annexe) (added September 2009) We also draw attention to Alexis's new website at http://www.alexislykiard.com Ken Champion's latest story Buntah is added to what we hope will become a collection (Annexe) (added August 2009) Alan Dent reviews John Murray's The Legend of Liz and Joe (Coming Up) (added Aug 2009) A new Kadison story EH? (Annexe) (added August 2009) John Murray's new novel The Legend of Liz and Joe plus links to his webpage and a recorded interview and reading (Coming Up) (added August 2009) Material related to the imminent Issue 27 includes Contents, Reviews, and Editorial (added August 2009) Peter Faulkner on Philip Lamantia: An American Original (Annexe) (added July 2009) Alexis Lykiard adds to his dysphoric memoires de la vie litteraire with a great squib on poetry readings A Winsome Woman - How glad northern oiks must feel to have spent their lives in factory. (Annexe) (added July 2009) Ken Champion's new story Vic (Annexe) (added June 2009) Alan Dent reviews poetry by William Wantling Only in the Sun and the Fix (Coming Up) (added May 2009) Two new poems by Alexis Lykiard Song of Senex the Cynic and Mercenary Colonials plus a major revision to Our Latest Logomachia (Poetry) (added May 2009) Alan Dent reviews Andy Croft's latest collection Sticky (Coming Up) (added May 2009) Alan Dent comments on Carol Anne Duffy's beatification in the Editorial to PP27 while Chas and Benny discuss other possibles in our additions to the Gallery (Coming Up) and (Gallery) (added May 2009) The phenomenologist Maurice Merleau Ponty analyses the paintings of Cezanne in Cezanne's Doubt (Annexe) (added April 2009) Alan Dent gives an insider's critical view on what's wrong with Education in Dr Prosser's Remedy (Annexe) (added April 2009) Poems by Miklos Radnoti translated by Thomas Orszag-Land - Deathmarch (Annexe) (Added April 2009) Do you really want to be a famous poet? Alexis Lykiard gives a horrible warning in his New Grub Street Revisited Taking the Poetry Road and Having a Poetic Time in the Sun (Annexe) (added March 2009) The latest Kadison story Mozart and Michael Jackson (Annexe) (added March 2009) Two more gems from the recently discovered oik genius Ray Blyde. His fine memoir My Life in Print and a short monlogue The Cypher (Annexe) (added March 2009) Our BOOKS section has been slowly growing without comment but we feel we must announce the appearance of the 400 page Penniless Press Reader - a selection from issues 1 to 26 for those who never saw the originals (now quite unobtainable) have lost them or who, having misplaced their magnifying glass, simply struggle with that odd font. Alan Dent reviews True Love Lies at the Manchester Royal Exchange (Theatre) (added Feb 2009) A new voice, Ray Blyde, is heard after 80 years of neglect. His Selected Poems are translated from the original oik with an introduction by Ken Clay (Annexe) (added February 2009) Poems by Thomas Orszag-Land - the translator of Andras Mezei's Holocaust poems which appear elsewhere on this site. (Annexe) (added Feb 2009) Several new squibs from Alexis Lykiard are added to his poetry page (Annexe) (added Feb 2009) Kadison's latest All You Need Is Love is a literary parable which crashes northern oik aspiration into metropolitan celebrity. (Annexe) (added 2009) The latest Kadsion school story Runt (Annexe) (added Dec 2008) John Hartley Williams translates La Baisse du Franc and La Stabilisation du Franc by Benjamin Péret and adds his own gloss in The Fall of the Pound (Coming Up) (added Dec 2008) Ambit appeals for subscribers following reduction in Arts Council grant (Coming Up) (Added Dec 2008) Alexis Lykiard wrestles with the bane of poets - printers - in An Embattled Book (Archive/Poetry) (added December 2008) Some Poetry additions - the Complete PP Peter Faulkner is added as are Fred Voss, Mike Barlow and Tanner's latest poems (Archive/Poetry) added November 2008 Five poems by David Betteridge (Annexe) (added November 2008) We thought (hoped?) Jaruzelski was dead but instead he's famous. His new TV soap Londynczyzy will be transmitted soon (Annexe) (Added Oct 2008) Three (!) new Kadsion stories Bramley and Trickson, These Days and Management (Annexe) (added October 2008) Alexis Lykiard writes about the American novelist Chandler Brossard (Annexe) (added October 2008) Our infrequent correspondent Sonia Treadgold (nee Whitehouse?) reports symptoms of cultural decline among the student population in The Lodger (Letters) (added October 2008) In man bites dog mode Alexis Lykiard savages lit critics in new long poem Questions Time. A Dunciad for our times? (Annexe) (added Oct 2009) Our page on Anatole Broyard is consistently one of the most visited. We add to this an unpublished letter by Alexis Lykiard which throws light on Broyard and his feud with Chandler Brossard. Bossard & Broyard (Archive / Prose) (added Oct 2008) In a short letter Charles Bukowski reflects on life and poetry in a letter we attach to Alexis Lykiard's earlier biog - On the Art of Writing Poetry (Annexe) (added Oct 2008) Yet more from the prolific S. Kadison (does this person have a day job?) The Far End of the East Lancs Road (Annexe) (added Oct 2008) A new Kadsion short story Linda Rosewall is Dead (Annexe) (added Sept 2008) A short story by Tom Kilcourse The Professional Musician (Annexe) (added Sept 2008) Ron Horsefield reports on France in Memoires of a Tourist (Annexe) (added Sept 2008) Reviews from Issue 26 (Archive / Reviews) (added Aug 2008) Jacques Prevert's hilarious Family Mementoes or the Slavedriving Angel translated by Alexis Lykiard (Annexe) (added August 2008) Kadison's latest horror story Somethin Bad (Annexe) (added August 2008) Ken Champion's short story Semiology (Archive/Prose/Fiction) (added August 2008) Andras Mezei's poems Testimony: Voices of the Holocaust translated by Thomas Land (Annexe) (added August 2008) Alan Dent reviews Edward McKinnon's Killing Time in Arcadia, Martin Epada's Crucifixion in the Plaza de Armas, and Jon Anderson's Seeds of Fire (Reviews) (added Aug 2008) Another front-line report from the battlefield which is Education. S. Kadison's Your Mum (Annexe) (added Aug 2008) Alan Dent's theatre reviews are now collected on a new page - Theatre (added July 2008) Seven New Poems by David Craig (Annexe) (added July 2008) The prolific S. Kadison imagines an educational dystopia unrecognisable to any New Labour pedagogue in Lets Kill the Teacher (Annexe) (added July 2008) S. Kadison's latest story Lapdancing in the Gulag (Annexe) (added June 2008) Alexis Lykiard's memento mori and search for Malcolm Lowry Sixties Time (Annexe) (added June 2008) Tanner's poetry from Issues 24 & 25 (Archive/Poetry) (added June 2008) Fred Voss's three poems from Issue 25 - The Role of a Lifetime, Zappos and One Hair's Breadth Away (Archive/Poetry) (added June 2008) The Editorial to the Forthcoming Issue 26 (Coming Up) (added June 2008) John Hartley Williams critique of the TS Eliot lecture of 2004 by Don Paterson No Rhyme No Reason (Archive/Poetry) (added May 2008) John White's essay The British Way of Life from issues 3 & 4 (Archive/Prose/Politics) (added May 2008) Jack Debney's story Out Goes the Bonny One (Archive/Prose/Fiction) (added May 2008) Bob Beagrie's poem Premature Resurrection (Archive/Poetry) (added May 2008) Selections from James McGonigal & Hamish Whyte's Virtual Memories (Archive/Poetry) (added May 2008) Tom Wood's story Buttocks and Erections from Issue 4 (Archive/Prose/Fiction) (added May 2008) Fran Virgo's squib on the Literary life today Heigh-ho-on-Wye (Coming Up) (added May 2008) The missing first page of Andy Edge's story Room on Top is now added (Prose/Fiction) (added May 2008) The latest Kadison story Birtwhistle & Beethoven Just Won't Do (Annexe) (added May 2008) Alan Dent reviews Leon Rosselson's recording - A Proper State (Archive/Reviews) (added May 2008) Alexis Lykiard latest collection Unholy Empires is now available (Coming Up) (added April 2008) see also Men of Straw, Was the Butler Sore?, Our Latest Logomachia and Episode in the War Against Error from this collection and on Alexis's page on this site. Tom Kelly's series of Geordie poems (Annexe) (added April 2008) S. Kadison's latest story THE STICKLER (Annexe) (added April 2008) DHL considered his Introduction to Memoires of the Foreign Legion by Maurice Magnus his best writing as writing (Annexe) (added April 2008) D.H. Lawrence's Autobiographical Sketch (Annexe) (added April 2008) Chapters 39 & 40 of Dan Billany's The Trap (Annexe) (added April 2008) Chapter VIII of Alexander Baron's novel From the City from the Plough (Annexe) (added April 2008) Alexis Lykiard's review of Bukowski's Novels originally appeared in Jim Burns' magazine Palantir in 1981 (Annexe) (added April 2008) Alan Dent reviews the Library Theatre Manchester production of David Edgar's Testing the Echo (Theatre) (added March 2008) Alan Dent reviews a Manchester Royal Exchange production of Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour (Theatre) (added March 2008) Alan Dent reviews a recent production of Waiting for Godot (Theatre) (added 2008) We replace the now redundant poster for Liber8 with Ken Clay's review of that event. (Coming Up) (added March 2008) Alan Dent reviews the Collected Poems of Alun Lewis (Archive/Reviews) (added Feb 2008) Yet another story from the prolific pen of S Kadison Guilty. Is this a real person or some infernal literary machine such as the Dumas co-operative or, in our own day, Jim Patterson? (Annexe) (added Feb 2008) John Daniel's memoir Grown Up War is completed - (Annexe) (added Feb 2008) In our progress towards Viz magazine we float Gallery - a subtitled selection of pix (added Feb 2008) A further instalment of John Daniel's Memoire adds to his opening chapter (Annexe) (added Feb 2008) Andrew Darlington's story Derek Edge Declares Peace is finally completed and added in Archive/Prose (added Feb 2008) Two Stories by Joe Urso The Colosseum and Summa Vita (Annexe) (added Feb 2008) Alan Dent reviews the Royal Exchange version of ROOTS (Coming Up) (Added Feb 2008) Four Poems by R.L. Hughes (Coming Up) (added Jan 2008) The latest Kadison story TITBIT (Annexe) (added Jan 2008) A squib on the Hain debacle Fly Away Peter in Coming Up (added Jan 2008) Review of Allison McVety's collection The Night Trotsky Came to Stay (Archive/Reviews) (added Dec 2007) Two new Kadison stories Pedder's Plan and The Seducer's Tricks (Annexe) (added Dec 2007) An Introduction to the Spanish poet Jose Luis Gallego (added Dec 2007) Ellen Karatzaferi's story set in Nazi occupied Greece A Loaf of Bread (added Dec 2007) Alan Dent looks again at the radical playwright in Clifford Odets and the American Theatre (added Dec 2007) Bill Griffiths, in a piece worthy of HP Lovecraft, describes a Geordie town taken over by The Psychic Fifth (added Dec 2007) Norman Jope writes about his affair with supermodel Claudia Schiffer - An Accessible Venus (added Dec 2007) Frederick Lightfoot sees his family anew following the death of dad - Family Portrait (added Dec 2007) Elizabeth Howkins' funny short story set in a surgeons' canteen - Bon Appetit (added Dec 2007) Andy Edge describes the traumas of office life against the backdrop of Czecho '68 - Room on Top (added Dec 2007) David Craig's short account of trek in the Lake District Last Suppers - Wainwright it ain't (added Dec 2007) John Lucas gives a fascinating tour d’horizon of the plight of fin-de-siecle Reds (fin de 20th century that is) in his letter On Radicals, Freedom, And The Need Of Being Awkward (see Letters). The ongoing discussion with the editor concerned the now notorious issue 23 which had no attributions. If you feel like chipping in to this barney then write. (added Dec 2007) The mad Polish plumber poet Stefan Jaruzelski argues against Sarko’s savage attack on French pensions in The Condition of the Working Class in France (see Archive / Prose / Fiction – surely a category mistake?). His encyclopaedic knowledge of the lesser known corners of 19th century French Lit astounds as always. (added Dec 2007) The complete reviews from the forthcoming Issue 25 are on site – including poetry by Jim Burns, Mike Barlow and Andy Croft whose Ghost Writer is now in print after appearing exclusively on the site. Reviews also cover Alexis Lykiard’s latest update on Jean Rhys and a new collection Judging by Disappearances. (added Dec 2007) A new contributor Rick Brown appears in Coming Up with his poem Highgate. (added Dec 2007) Another new voice is Martin Domleo whose poem Old Bill will appear in issue 25 out shortly. (Coming Up) (added Dec 2007) Editor Alan Dent reviews the Manchester Royal Exchange production of A Conversation by David Williamson (Theatre) (added Nov 2007) A new section BOOKS provides links to small press publishers and Amazon to help anyone wishing to read more of our contributors’ work. This section is vestigial at the moment – something of a building site – but will expand soon with the launch of Penniless Press Publications. (added Nov 2007) I suppose we should, logically, announce here the installation of What’s New. And, at the risk of getting entangled in a self-referential paradox or infinite regress, also announce the announcement…(this is getting silly! Ed) (added Dec 2007) We do, however, identify the originators of this page in Some Website Failings (Letters) (added Dec 2007)
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