ARTEMISpoetry

This magazine is a platform for the best in women's poetry today. Edited by Dilys Wood with a rotating co-editor and poetry editor, it includes a very comprehensive review section, poems by well-known and up and coming poets, essays, interviews, articles, artwork and news.

Issue 4, co-edited with Anne Stewart with Alison Brackenbury as poetry editor is in now available. It includes: 'My Life in Poetry' by Anne Stevenson, an appreciation of U A Fanthorpe by R V Bailey, Part 1 of a Survey of ambitious poetry by contemporary women poets by Dilys Wood and Myra Schneider, reviews by Penelope Shuttle, Rose Flint and others, poems by many well-known and up and coming poets. For more about ARTEMISpoety and the Second Light Network see

www.secondlightlive.co.uk

Myth, Magic and The Future of Poetry

A brilliant essay by Grevel Lindop which looks at the potency of myth in poetry and in particular in contemporary poetry and the relevance of all this to people living now and in the future.

http://grevel.co.uk/tag/myrs-schneider

Staple Magazine

Editor Wayne Burrows is turning this into a serious and comprehensive literary magazine with short fiction, a range of poetry, articles and a comprehensive review section.

http://www.staplemagazine.co.uk/

Some Outstanding Poetry Publications

Edward Hirsch The Living Fire New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2010

Gwyneth Lewis Hospital Odyssey Bloodaxe 2010

Mark Roper Even So: New and Selected Poems Dedalus Press 2008

Anne Cluysenaar Batu-Angas: Envisioning Nature with Alfred Russel Wallace Seren 2008