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Roger Allen Blocked Drain
Edward Belleville Nairobi
Robert James Berry Brinjal
R. G. Bishop To Myself
Mercer Bufter Memorial Day
Antony Coleman Complex
Steve Davies Buon giorno
Holly Day Beneath our Feet
Patricia de Berker Valentine for Paul
Ann Egan May Bough
Roger Harvey Northman's Prayer
Jean Hathaway Sunday
Richard Hawtree The Old A3 Taken Up
Geoffrey Heptonstall The Acquisition of Love
David Hicks Blondin at Niagara Falls, 1859
W. E. Holloway February Fox
Peter Hughes Blackpool Earthquake
Antony Johae Diviner
Ashleigh John As Good as it Gets
Martin Jones Ghosts
Gloria Keeley Hobo Ride
Tim Love Immortal Words
Ayelet McKenzie Katy
Nick Monks Sunk Island - Hull
R. V. K. Nadeem A Power Cut
Julian Nangle The Hollow
Michael Newman Before the Fall
Leslie Philibert Love
Oxana Poberejnaia Three Ages of Water
Mark Rutter Swans
Gordon Scapens Number One Man
Megan Smith Mr Emmeline Pankhurst
Lee Starkey Prime
Stella Stocker Merewif
Val Tigwell Shortcut to Waterloo Station
Mark Totterdell Steam
Joanna M Weston Passages
Jeffery Wheatley Wet Lips
Reviews
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POEMS
Jim Alderson My Father, the Council House Zeus
Carol Argyris Bag Lady
Daniel Connelly Bella Roma
Martin Cook Fishmonger
Angela Croft Hanging Fire
Maureen Cullen Great Aunt
Kemar Cummings Lying in Wait
Simon French Origins
Sailor Recalls 200 Foot Wave
Alan Hardy Parent Killer
Chris Hardy January
Chameleon
Jean Hathaway Untitled
Michael Henry The Lancet
David Hicks By Breughel Light
Amy Huffman Without Reins
Chris James Across Britain by Unicycle
Antony Johae Black Gold
Ashleigh John Falling Awake
Michael Loughran Path Clearing
Jennifer McGowan Destrier
In Granny's House
Ayelet McKenzie Comfort Eating
Old
Andrew Mayne Blind Poet Visits
Nick Monks Meeting my New Sister
Michael Newman School Houses
Chelsea Owens Laurel
Miriam Patrick Saint Christopher at Breage
Riddle
Idris Pavieu With a Torch
Bilbao Airport, December 2011
Doreen Pearce Foul Words
Wendy Pratt God Creates Dog
Sye Sanders Chemistry
Gordon Scapens This was a Day
Pain Relief
K.V.Skene We Meet under Aristotle Bridge
Susan Skinner Hidden Words
Julie Stothard Bridging the Difference
Joanna Weston Portraits
Benjamin Waight The Destination of Words
A Single Subject
LIST AND FOUND
by Jeffery Wheatley
REVIEWS
by Stella Stocker


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Poems
James Aitchison The Seafarer Came this Way
Roger Allen On the Death of a Friend
Denise Bennett Daughter
R. G. Bishop Endangered Species
Norman Bissett Summer Walk, Glencorse
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodran Orchard Beach
Diana Brodie But Where is He?
Bob Cooper Mushroom Picking, 1989
Marti Cooper Loss
Jeremy Gadd On Reading a Letter
Anne Grant The Jug
Alan Hardy Snow Leaves
Jean Hathaway Which Sculptor?
Michael Henry Dinner at the Adelphi
Fred Johnston Lament
Believer
Aux Yeux Bandes
Charles Kennedy April
Daniel King Antarctic Pearlwort
Richard Luftig Archeology
David Mac Rain Voices
A. A. Marcoff Spring
K. R. Massingham Blackbird
Rosemarie Morton The Gardener
Robert Nisbet Rivulet
Tabitha Paschalis Balancing Act
Thor Pavlyuk Overnight Trains
Tom Pescatore Carolina Shores
Alan Porter From Six Sonnets on Love and Marriage
Donna Pucciani Illusion
Zbigniew Sas For the Unknown Clansman
Stella Maris
Alexandra Sashe From the cycle "Viennesse. Autumnal"
Gordon Scapens Spring
Belinda Singleton Breakdown
Ted Sludds From the Train
Joan Sheridan Smith Nostalgia
Michael Tanner Snails at Saint Michel en Greve
Michael W. Thomas Shannon
Jerry Twomey The Frog's Croak
Ballygobackwards
Susanne Wawra Pen on Paper
Geoff William A Realm of Small Pale Faces
Robin Lindsay Wilson I've Settled Somewhere
Reviews
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Poems
Norman Bissett A Bigger Picture
Martin Cook Venus Figurines
John Feakins A Corner of Some Paradise
   Ice
Alfred Gosschalk Difference Doesn't Always Make a Difference
Pauline Hawkesworth Piano Moments
Daniel Healy Recollection
David Hicks Connoisseur
   Co-ordinates
Ivy Hudson    Age-Related
A J Huffman Between Two Layers of Shatterproof Glass
Ashleigh John Cormorant
   Bullocks
Michael Lee Johnson Bowl of Petunias
Antony Johae Trio
John Lemmon Your Death
Tarquin Landseer The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
David Mac Poem
Terry Maher Trees
   The Salmon of Knowledge
Antoinette Mangion Questions of Sin
   Sisters
   Escapology
A A Marcoff Dancer
Nick Monks Night
   Swimming
   Anne 10
David Morgan Particle Theory
V. E. Morcom Coming Back
Sylvia Neumann The Wisdom of Snakes
Michael Newman Good News
Ali Pardoe The Person Behind the Photograph
    Catnip Boy
Peneli Half Awake
   Not According to Plan
Don Russ Making Angels
   A Year in the Townhouse
Gordon Scapens No Speech Required
Joan Sheridan Smith Corn Dolly
Fiona Sinclair Found
   New Girl

Katerina Sinclair Accounts
J P V Stewart Looking for a Green Star
Rosemary Wagner Wood-blind
Val Waters The Diary of an Insomniac
Benjamin Wolfe The Weight of Life
   Lead By Example

Jeremy Young The Dolls' House
   Relics
   El Al

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Christopher Allan Walls of All Kinds
   
Bloodline
Mancy Alwis Pigeon Perspectives
Norman Bissett Kamchatka
Mike Boland Peregrination
Philip Burton Head of the River
    The Knave's Grave
Pat Buik Old Man
A. C. Clarke Charles Stuart’s Executioner
Bob Cooper A Fear of Flying
Jack Granath Bedfellows
Gene Groves Fan
Joscelyne Hanby Nemesis
Tim Heavisides Desert Rats
Ashleigh John Songbirds in Winter
Tarquin Landseer Caribbean Port
Marlene Leach In a Peculiar Arc
Jennifer McGowan On the Single Line
   Idiosyncrasy
Niall McGrath Maintenance
A. A .Marcoff Aria
Michael Newman Something Lost
Miriam Patrick Triptych
Peter Philips With his Cousin
   At Pub with Poetry Chum
Susan Skinner Northumbrian Coast
Paul Stephenson On Being Tall
Richard Thomas Kingdom
Mark Totterdell Herring Gulls
   Adder
Tony Turner The Good Life
V. J. Waters Meeting the Wizard
Dulani Wilson Power B
Robert Lindsay Wilson Absent in Water
F. J. Williams Airport Drop-Off Zone
Gareth Writer-Davies Cider
Jeremy Young Arms and the Boy
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Poems
Christopher Barnes Limited Catering Ltd
Denise Bennett Fieldfare
   
Nostalgia
R . G. Bishop Visiting Time
Norman Bissett Whithorn
Lesley Carty Willow
Rohan Chhetri Elephants
Kitty Coles Your Bones
Andrew Collins Ward Ten
Martin Cook Window Pane
Robert Ensor Me,Myself, I, James Ensor (1860-1949)
Anne Grant Loch Awe
Chris Hardy What Had to be Done
Michael Henry Murmuration at West Pier
    Butterfly Raid with Baedeker
   Mrs Townsend's Vertebra
Ivy Hudson A Geranium Leaf Ringed with Dew
Antony Johae Cat in Kuwait
Peter Johnson Old Man Buys a Winter Coat
Noel King Exposé

Tim Love Daffodils
A. A. Marcoff The Aria of the Sun
   Stone:garden
Richie McCaffery The Coin with no Tails
Patrick McEvoy Lamping
Ashby McGowan A Whirlpool is not a Circle
Christopher Mulrooney On the Tracks at Paddington Station
Robert Nisbet Holiday: a Mid-Wales Street Market
Miriam Patrick At Kamierz
Cedric Pickin On a Quote
Chris Powici 47 Bus
   Moulihearn
   Kippendavie Road
Zbigniew Sas Eternal Circles
Anne Sherry Sugar Bread
Nicholas Shurmer Pistachio
Fiona Sinclair Lucky Streak
Belinda Singleton Answer
K. V. Skene The Passing Life of Post Offices
Joan Sheridan Smith Local History
Leilanie Stewart The Hole of Truth
Rosemary Wagner Hunter-gatherers
Val Waters Flight
Joanna M. Weston The Things I Leave my Grand-child
Geoffrey Winch Matters of the Heart
Landa Wo After the Tide
Reviews
by Stella Stocker


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Poems
Roger Allen And Rest
Philip Burton Grass of Parnassus
Kitty Coles The Hug
Sean Elliott Edgar and Sam
 
Examinations
Michael Henry Case History
 Taking the Ferry
Michael Jennings Marvels Beyond Me
Antony Johae Three Fen Shui Matters
Zoe Karathanasi The Dance of a Crane
Sarah Kayss Profound Scepticism
A. A. Marcoff Butterfly
 Snails 
 the weave and mood of dream
Jim McConalogue November
Brendan McMahon Reading
David Mcmullan Dawn String Blues
David R. Morgan Patriot
 The Difference of Dreams
 
Walking You Home
Kristine Ong Muslim Antiprayer, 12
Robert Nisbet
Into the Spring
Edward O’Dwyer
The Dark and the Wind
 
The Ones That Got Away
Miriam Patrick At Jackson’s Boat
 Gargoyles at Sydling St Nicholas
Ehud Sela He Must Have Smelled A Rat
Anne Smith Capricorn
Valerie A Smith Dream
Jacqueline Souza Blue-penciled Time
Julia Stothard On Call
 The Ornamental Jugs
Adam Taylor Aliens
 Cliff & Clouds
Mark Totterdell Butterflies
Anthea Tulloch
Favour
Joanna M. Weston Starlight
Reviews by Stella Stocker

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Poems
Christopher Allan
Lunar
Patricia de Berker Pantoum for Peter
Michael Binnie
Birds 
 Happiness near Brighton

Norman Bissett Counteroffensive
Robert Bone Washed In the City
Nick Burbridge
Resurrection Reel 
 Friends and Relations

Martin Cook
Over Black Rock
David Cooke The Temple of the Sacred Tooth
Andrew Geary Big Man
A. Grant Auto Stop
Richard Halperin Two Russian Girls Laughing
Michael Henry I Await the Letter
David Hicks
The Novice 
 Upsurge

Robert Hodkinson Man in the Moon
Ivy Hudson Route for Approaching Humbaba the Mountain Frances Jessup
The Sunlight on the Snow
Ashleigh John
Beachcomber 
 Veteran
Huw
Lawrence Song of the Water Birds
Robert Leach
Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata
Eric Leat Bikes
David Lewis
County Town
Anne Lewis-Smith Airborne Division
David Morgan An Empty Verse
Robert Nisbet Morgan's Hedge
Ilse Pedler Summer Storm
Cedric Pickin
The New Rocking Chair
Gordon Scapens Moon
Tony Turner What Did You Do in the War, Father?
Val Waters Lost
John Younger
Looking Back at the Present 
 Blue Bedroom Blues

Poems And History by Jeffery Wheatley
Reviews by Stella Stocker

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Poems
John Arnold Down the South-West Lines
Jonathan Attrill The Ruse
Denise Bennett The Brute
Patricia de Berker Epithalamium
Michael Binnie Grieg's Piano Concerto in Calcutta
Peter Branson Nomad Pat Buik Godmother
Nabin Kumar Chhetri The Balloon Wallah
Martin Cook My Neighbour Harry
Bill Dodd Landscape with Figures
Naushen Eusuf Afternoon
Diana Gittins We be Hens
Michael Greavy Blackley Crem
Mary Guckian Our Round Bush
Michael Henry Miserichord for Robin
Ivy Hudson Near, Though Far Away
Reena Kutty A Rainy Day with my Daughter
Tim Love The Poet's Complaint
David R. Morgan Jesus in Marmite 
 Shaman's Song 
 Oi
Ian Mullins Fireflies
Michael Newman Tour of the South Cotswolds
Carolyn Oulton After Melissa Gave Me a Leaf on the Way to School
Peneli Space Probe
Cedric Pickin The Moor
John Ringrose Looking for the Dome . . .
Brenton Rossow Market Dog
Gordon Scapens As Old as Winter
Susan Skinner Musings on Home
Anne Smith Silences
Joan Sheridan Smith September Walk
Marcus Smith Sitting for a Moment
Jacqueline Sousa That Year
Geoff Stevens Skellig
Morgan Sushetski Ladder to the Moon
Geoff Tomlinson To Joy, the Comic Muse
David Tuohy Pal 
 Serious
Sylvia Villa Things
Val Waters Dancer in the Dark
Diana Webb Detained by Snails
Joanna M. Weston Old Worship (Kyrielle)
Geoff William Dylan
Liang Yujing Tiananmen Bush
Reviews by Stella Stocker

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Poems
Norman Bissett Poem Found at B & Q
Ken Champion Old Money
Martin Cook Burial Mound
Lesley Dickson The Park
Alan Dunnet In the Lap
Sean Elliott Our Ghosts
Anne Grant Pre-Natal Man 
 Fragments
Simon Gross Home Baking
Nick Haigh I Wanna Dance with a Statue
Dave Hall Taisssez-Vous 
 Wide Awake
Kerrie Hardie Gulls in the Morning
Chris Hardy Lemnos
Michael Henry A Tingle of Excitement
Ivy Hudson A Speechless City
Eve Jackson Passing Time 
 Cowrie
Michael Jennings Norfolk Visitation
Deborah Mason The Dark Angel and the Ugly Duckling
David R. Morgan Mid-Life Crisis 
 Edward Ashby Smith
Giles MorganStonehenge
Michael Newman A Sense of Loss
Miriam Patrick Hagiography
Donna Pucciani Distant Cousin
K. V. Skene Upon Walking the Thames Path from Abingdon to Oxford
Anne Smith Irish Soda Bread
Jenny Steel Love
B. J. Walklate The Farmhouse
Val Waters In Death's Shadow
Wendy Webb Heavenly Proportions 
 Cafe Morello
Nigel Williams Small Holding
Reviews by Stella Stocker