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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. 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 (Coming Up) (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 (Coming Up) (added March 2008) Alan Dent reviews a Manchester Royal Exchange production of Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour (Coming Up) (added March 2008) Alan Dent reviews a recent production of Waiting for Godot (Coming Up) (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 (Coming Up) (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 (Coming Up) (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 (Coming Up) (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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