March 2015 – Page 2 – Sabotage

Pamphlets Poetry

Trainspotters by Greg Freeman

March 17, 2015March 16, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter Greg Freeman, Indigo Dreams, Steve Nash, Trainspotters

– Reviewed by Steve Nash – Greg Freeman’s Trainspotters begins with a nostalgic tribute to a brother slightly at odds with

Play of Voices Poetry

Bountiful Instructions for Enlightenment by Minal Hajratwala

March 16, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter Afric McGlinchey, Bountiful Instructions For Enlightenment, Carolyn Forché, Cassandra of Troy, Kim Adonnizio, Lady Gaga, Li-Young Lee, Minal Hajratwala, The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective

– Reviewed by Afric McGlinchey – Bountiful Instructions for Enlightenment is published by The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective, one of

Chill Pill (Canada Water Culture Space, 26/02/15)

March 11, 2015March 11, 2015 websterpoet Adam Kammerling, Amy Acre, Ben Norris, Canada Water Culture Space, Chill Pill, Christian Foley, Deanna Rodger, Jack Hall, Jon Sands, Lettie McKie, Mike Galsworthy, Mr Gee, Raymond Antrobus, Roya Shadman, Simon Mole

– reviewed by Lette McKie – Amongst the huge array of spoken word in London, Chill Pill is hands down one

Fictionvale 2: I Call My Spaceship Trigger

Fictionvale Magazine #2: I Call My Spaceship Trigger

March 10, 2015March 10, 2015 dj4twinx Aaron Michael Ritchey, Andrew Knighton, Anita Learned, Bethany W. Pope, Bogi Takács, Dark Tower, David Ballard, Fictionvale, Firefly, James L Steel, Jason Allard, Jenna Barton, Lucy A Snyder, Mary Lou Klecha, Michael Faber, Mitch Richmond, Phillip K Dick, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, The Man in the High Castle, Venessa Giunta

-Reviewed by Bethany W. Pope– Fictionvale, edited by Venessa Giunta and Jenna Barton, is a bi-monthly short-story journal that focuses

Conversation Interview

“It’s all one enormous blancmange” – an interview with S J Fowler

March 10, 2015March 16, 2015 William Barrett aesthetic malingering, Anselm Hollo, avant garde, Caroline Bergvall, Chris McCabe, Christodoulos Makris, Cia Rinne, conceptual poetry, Dylan Nyoukis, Emily Critchley, errata, Hannah Silva, Holly Pester, J.H. Prynne, James Wilkes, Jeff Hilson, Keston Sutherland, modernism, Philip Terry, Raymond Queneau, S.J. Fowler, Sean Bonney, Tamarin Norwood, The Rottweiler’s Guide to the Dog Owner, Tim Atkins, Tom Chivers, Tom Jenks, Tom Raworth

-interviewed by Will Barrett- The following interview with S J Fowler was done over email. I’ve met Steven several times

Pamphlets Poetry

Oils by Stephen Sexton

March 9, 2015March 9, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter Anne Sexton, Ekphrasis, Oils, Stephen Payne, Stephen Sexton, The Emma Press

– Reviewed by Stephen Payne – In Stephen Sexton’s Oils, full of imaginative, lyrical, layered poems, ‘Long Reach’ is the most layered

Solstice Shorts Arachne Press

Anthology Short Stories

Solstice Shorts (ed. Alison Moore, Anita Sethi, Cherry Potts, Imogen Robertson & Robert Shearman)

March 8, 2015March 8, 2015 dj4twinx Aita Sethi, Alison Moore, Arachne Press, Cherry Potts, David Matthews, David Turnbull, Felicity Skelton, Helen Morris, Imogen Robertson, Jane Pickering, Margaret Atwood, Roald Dahl, Robert Shearman, William Davidson

-Reviewed by Felicity Skelton- Arachne Press, a small, inventive, company publishing mainly short fiction and poetry, held a festival on

Mount Island Magazine #1

Mount Island Magazine #1

March 8, 2015March 5, 2015 dj4twinx Ben Alshire, Bobby Dillan, Dalton Day, Frances Cannon, Jack Kerouac, Lisa Lanser, Mount Island Magazine, Robert D. Vivian, Sarah Gonnet, Steve Jr

-Reviewed by Sarah Gonnet– The first issue of literary magazine Mount Island encompasses an overall sense of poetry in its

Some People Have Too Many Legs by Jackie Hagan (Llanover Hall, Cardiff, 06/03/15)

March 7, 2015March 8, 2015 Anna Jamieson Cardiff, disability, glitter, Jackie Hagan, legs, Live Literature, Mab Jones, Manchester, Performance, poetry, show

-Reviewed by Mab Jones- TimeHop tells Jackie Hagan that it is two years ago today when she was making the

Peek by Paul Beckman

Collection Flash

Peek by Paul Beckman

March 6, 2015March 5, 2015 dj4twinx Eleanor Hemsley, flash fiction, Paul Beckman, Peek

-Reviewed by Eleanor Hemsley- Paul Beckman explores the relationships between the peekers and the peeked at in this creative collection