Poetry

Helena Nelson in the Friday Poem

An interesting interview with Helena Nelson in the Friday Poem. I happened to stumble on a link to this article in my Twitter feed. I thought I’d share it here having written about Happenstance Press in my From My Poetry Bookshelf blog post last weekend. It’s a really good interview. I wasn’t aware of The Friday Poem blog before. Looks like it’s well worth keeping track of.

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Poetry

From my Poetry Bookshelf – Tiger – Cliff Forshaw

In addition to books on my poetry bookshelf, I also have a lot of pamphlets, including this one by Cliff Forshaw, published by Happenstance Press in 2011. Pamphlets are a great way for poets who haven’t had a collection in print to pull together an initial selection of work, or for other writers to create a smaller thematic collection of poems. Tiger falls into the latter category. It is 22 pages long, and themed around…

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