NEW HOPE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW

This anthology is attractively formatted in a yellow cover decorated with the Happenstance motif, containing 43 poems by nearly that many poets, a few being credited with two poems each.

Generally I would describe the poems as light-hearted, often with simple humour, occasionally boring and ultra-juvenile re sex (excepting the more subtle poem ZABB by Martin Cook)

Many have unusual aspects, with death as a subject gratefully absent. Most are entertaining although none are memorable in any technical or classic sense.

Some poems make their point with disarming simplicity, such as CARNAL KNOWLEDGE by Andrew Belsey. One would have to be a bit of a curmudgeon not to feel a snicker of approval for

 
	I suppose we went a bit too far
	In the back of our old car
	Because we had to disentwine
	When we got that parking fine.

	They sent his body to Kirkcaldy
	By parcel post express.
	His wife said, That's the first time Pat's
	Come home to this address.