NEW HOPE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW

An independent small press poetry review

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This page last updated: 14th December 2007. 		Raw NerVZ Vol.X #2

This Canadian publication is a treasure house of delights. It is a quarterly of haiku and related material, containing amongst other forms; haiku, senryu, tanka, sequences, renga and haibun. It is full of apposite graphic work and a variety of concrete poetry forms.

It is with real regret that I have subsequently learned that there are just two issues left and then the magazine is to fold. I do hope not.

Within its 54 pages there are well over an hundred pieces of work, making it difficult to select and under-line pieces for comment. Entirely subjectively then: Stanley Pelter's

    
	inthe landofnod of course godis asodof anidea
Anne McKay's
	A child rolls a hoop into autumn
	yellow slickers at the outdoor market
and an extended hai-bun by Garard John Conforti THE LOST DAYS Contains wonderful phraseology
the lost days of women coming and going in and out of love
the lost days of childhood lost in the woods
the lost days of rebirth and spring and flowers withering in the autumn
S.B.Friedman:
	breathing in the space between snowflakes vernal
		equinox: tasting the green of fresh peas
Dick Pettit & Helen Robinson's THE BALCONY, a long inter-wrapped piece is a musical dialogue of related ideas which is a significant work.

Jean Michel Guillaumond's:

	The distance between you and me a pinch of salt
Contributors are asked to name a favorite piece. H F Noyes' suggestion of Ruby Spriggs'
	Switching off the lights switching off the shadows
reveals to us, as Noyes says,
that we can have an experience over and over and yet see only half of what is actually going on. If you believe the shadows to be of no account, talk to a painter
George Swede's
	gr ad ua ll ym yd epre ss ion
		fi ll sw it hst ars
in it's brevity and arrangement is perhaps counterbalanced by THE NOODLE SUTRA (a contemplative hai-bun) by Michael McClintock (which is also printed as a supplementary insert to the magazine). One word per line it is 138 lines long!

As I suggested at the beginning, this publication is a veritable box of delights for constant dipping into, and as the title page suggests SEASON TO TASTE.

reviewer: John Cartmel-Crossley.