June 2015 – Page 3 – Sabotage

Magazine Poetry Short Stories

Paper and Ink #5: Damn the Man

June 10, 2015June 10, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter Abbie Foxton, David Roskos, Erica Plouffe Lazure, Harriet Creelman, John Dorsey, Joseph Ridgwell, Lance Nizami, Martin Appleby, Megan Pattie, Paper and Ink, Steve Nash

– Reviewed by Steve Nash – Issue 5 of the punk DIY zine Paper and Ink sets its sights on

Pamphlets Poetry

Exodus in X-Minor by Fox Frazier-Foley

June 10, 2015June 10, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter Exodus in X-Minor, Fox Frazier-Foley, Steve Nash, Sundress Publications

– Reviewed by Steve Nash – Fox Frazier-Foley’s Exodus in X-Minor is an elusive, unsettling work that embeds often direct

Collection Poetry

Dark Islands by Tom Chivers

June 9, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter Bethany W. Pope, Test Centre, Tom Chivers

– Reviewed by Bethany W Pope – Tom Chivers’ Dark Islands is a long sequence of poems taking the reader on a

Online Magazine Poetry Short Stories Translation

Tender #6

June 6, 2015June 6, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter Bonny Cassidy, Ellen Addison, Émilie Gleason, Fie Norsker, Flaminia Cavagnaro, Harriet Moore, Holly Pester, James O'Leary, Kate Kilalea, Kathryn Maris, Kimiko Hahn, Marthe Jung, Rachael Allen, Rachel Benson, Rebecca Perry, Sarah Boulton, Sarah Potts, Sophie Collins, tender, Yukiko Motoya

– Reviewed by James O’Leary – Tender is a quarterly journal edited by Rachael Allen and Sophie Collins, seeking work

Festival Live Literature Spoken Word

Bloodlines by Talia Randall (The Roundhouse Last Word Festival, 26/05/15)

June 5, 2015June 5, 2015 websterpoet Bloodlines, Last Word Festival, Lettie McKie, Roundhouse, Talia Randall

– reviewed by Lettie McKie – (Director: Rachel Blackman) “Welcome to my mind…” The floor of the studio theatre at

Festival Spoken Word

Quiet Violence by Sophie Rose (The Roundhouse Last Word Festival, 28/05/15)

June 4, 2015 websterpoet Last Word Festival, Quiet Violence, Roundhouse, Sophie Rose

– reviewed by Catherine Heath – Performed by a single woman wearing a striped top, a top-knot and self-proclaimed “too

Essay Pamphlets Poetry

Word Play: Finding Innovation in Small Press Poetry from the Texas Borderlands

June 4, 2015June 9, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter Adela Najarro, Daniel García Ordaz, El Zarape Press, Ha Kiet Chau, Larry D. Thomas, Laura Cesarco Eglin, Maria Miranda Maloney, Mouthfeel Press, Split Geography, Texas Borderlands, The Goatherd, The Poet Mariachi, Woman Come Undone, You Know What I'm Sayin'?

– By C.A. LaRue – In this age of social media and multiculturalism, language is more fluid than ever before.

Collection Saboteur Awards Short Stories

Jebel Marra by Michelle Green

June 4, 2015August 8, 2015 dj4twinx Cath Barton, Comma Press, Jebel Marra, Michelle Green, Saboteur Awards 2015

-Reviewed by Cath Barton- The Darfur region of Southern Sudan in the Nile Valley of North Africa has been riven

Announcement Saboteur Awards

Saboteur Awards 2015: Best Novella, Best Short Story Collection, Best Collaborative Work and Best Magazine

June 3, 2015June 3, 2015 dj4twinx #Losslit, Agnes Marton, Aki Schilz, Aliya Whiteley, Amina Alyal, Angela Readman, Anneliese Mackintosh, Any Other Mouth, Bare Fiction, Chloe Caldwell, Close As Second Skins, Don't Try This At Home, Evangeline Jennings, Georgia Carys Williams, Guardian of the Edge, Heidi James, Jacqueline Saphra, Jebel Marra, Kit Caless, Lighthouse, Mark Andrew Webber, Melanie Rees, Michelle Green, No Christmas, Oz Hardwick, Prole, Quintin Forrest, Richard T. Watson, Saboteur Awards, Saboteur Awards 2015, Sarah Miller, Second-Hand Rain, Selkie Singing In The Passing Place, Shooter Literary Magazine, Tales of Modern Stupidity, The Beauty, The Mesmerist's Daughter, The Migrant, The Missing Slate, u.v. ray, When I Lay On My Back I Saw Nothing But Naked Women, Women

-In which Richard T. Watson– rounds up the Best Novella, Best Short Story Collection, Best Collaborative Work and Best Magazine

Saboteur Awards Seasonal/End of year

Saboteur Awards 2015: Best Spoken Word Show, Regular Spoken Word Night, Spoken Word Performer, and One Off Event

June 2, 2015 websterpoet 2001: A Space Ode and Ditty, Bad Language, Bang Said the Gun!, Can't Care Won't Care, Chimene Suleyman, Colin Davies, Dan Cockrill, Ella Gainsborough, Evidently, Fat Roland, Hannah Silva, Heart Poems for Children’s Heart Week, Henry Raby, Hollie McNish, Holly Corfield Carr, Jackie Hagan, James Webster, Jo Bell, JP Daly, Kieren King, Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston, MINE, OE by Max Barton, Oz Hardwick, Project U, Rebecca Goss, Ross Sutherland, Say Owt Slam, Schlock!, Some People Have Too Many Legs, Sophia Walker, Standby for Tape Backup, Stu Freestone, The 52 Project, Unthank Books, Words and Women

– In which James Webster sums up Best Spoken Word Show, Regular Spoken Word Night, Spoken Word Performer, and One