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Bard #52 | |
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This is a very small publication, consisting of one A4 sheet folded into three. This issue contains poetry from ten poets, including Lillian Anderson and Steve Sneyd. The poems cover a range of topics and are written in a variety of styles, though most are very accessible to the general reader, for example, THE VAST CHAMBERS OF IMAGINATION by Paul Tristram: The vast chambers of imagination are there for all to use. Just take yourself a look inside there are many wonderful things to choose.Neal Wilgus uses repetition to interesting effect in HE WASN'T ALL THERE: he walked around the horses around the horses around around he walkedThis is an ideal publication to carry around in a pocket to read in a spare moment. | ||
| reviewer: Juliet Wilson. | ||
| Bard #53 | ||
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BARD is a long-liver, edited by David-John Tyrer from Southend-on-Sea. It's a bit of a minnow in that it is on 6 pages of folded A4, but manages to display very many short poems, including one from Tyrer himself. Grab your gun take aim Settle score with anyone Pause just to reloadwhich unfortunately left me unenthusiastic. The first 3-liner from Jan Oskar Hansen was impressive: the transitory saw and touched her yesterday now I need a spadeAlso some of the four contributions from Aeronwy Dafies struck a note: thrush settles on branch no sound nor movement at all gone in flash of wingBARD can be said to perform a useful service, displaying many short poems which otherwise would not appear in more portentous volumes, although its rationalisation via ISSN provision would have been welcome. | ||
| reviewer: Eric Ratcliffe. |