Orbis, a strong U.K. journal that recently published its 200th issue, is seeking submissions.
UK submissions, 4 poems + SAE (C5 if possible):
17 Greenhow Avenue, West Kirby, Wirral CH48 5EL
Overseas: 2 poems (no attachments);
carolebaldock@hotmail.com
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further info I've been asked to pass on:
Orbis always welcomes submissions, and unlike many magazines, we return work rather than rejecting it, more often than not with an invite to send more.
Subs: £19/4 pa (Overseas: £42/€50/$60)
Get a taste for Orbis – and get to know us even better: a whole year's worth as pdfs (OS: £12);UK: + 1 back copy of the actual magazine (£12, inc p+p)
Or if preferred, rather than pdfs: 2 back copies for £8
And welcome to join us online at the Orbis group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/5363...?ref=br_tf&epa
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Orbis 200, Summer 2022
'All the best to you, and to Orbis!' (Glyn Maxwell; shortlisted for Best Collection in the Forward Prize)
'Best wishes for the journal - and congratulations on such a successful magazine over the years' (Joy Harjo, United States Poet Laureate)
Without Small Press magazines, the majority of poets who are now household names wouldn’t be where they are today:
Carol Ann Duffy's poems appeared in Acumen and the Rialto early in her career,
and Orbis was one of the first magazines to publish Glyn Maxwell, shortlisted for Best Collection in the Forward Prizes.
Susan Wicks, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize:3 collections with Faber,
the rest, Bloodaxe, and most of them PBS recommendations.
Simon Armitage, former contributor (reviews and poems),'still has copies',
giving Orbis a mention in his Forward Prize winning collection, Kid,
Ahren Warner, Editor of Poetry London, had a poem in the magazine - aged just 15,
while Featured Writer (Orbis 171), Bethany W. Pope's collection Silage
(Indigo Dreams) was reviewed in The Guardian.
On the other hand, Orbis191 was the first magazine to publish Anne Symons,
whose poem, Corsetière, came second in the Readers’ Award,
while another debut, When Jesus Spoke to the Elephants by Ed Jones (New Jersey), was chosen as Joint 1st, Orbis 183
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Single issue: £5.50 (Overseas: £11.50/€14/$16); Subs: £19/4 pa (Overseas: £42/€50/$60)
Associate Editor (Book Reviews): Maria Isakova Bennett
Please note with new collections, press release in first instance - not review copies.
Reviews by Philip Dunkerley; David Harmer; Jenny Hockey; D.A. Prince; Pauline Rowe;
Theresa Sowerby; Andrew Taylor; Lynne Taylor
Front cover artwork: designed by Tony Murphy
And here it is – you got the big issue:
Guest Poets, Featured Poets – and most of the poets chosen by you. Yes, some doom and gloom but plenty of laughs along the way, some of it quite surreal.
Would you like to find out more, eg Something I learned from Great Aunt Ethel? Christina Buckton has the answer,
or why Lord Egremont decides to change course (Joy Wassell Timms), and how come Oz Hardwick is seeing Red – never mind Sam Smith
(facing a losing battle, you ask me): Cat and I, impassive, face to face. What's our Reviews Editor, Maria Isakova Bennett doing at Coburg Wharf looking South and North?
And David Harmer, busy Finding Stuart’s Bar, while Matt Bryden has adopted another identity it seems, when Clark Kent Revisits the Family Farm. Maggie Butt enjoys
the Last Swim of the Season, though not so much fun for Sean Howard, who is missing poems (berkhamsted, herts). Shall we join David Mark Williams for some Adventurous Knitting,
or Michael Henry at The Bookseller’s Lunch? And hands up all those, like Annie Klier Newcomer, who knew Antimony has two meanings, or what exactly is the Suburban Secret? Let's ask Eve Jackson, nicely,
So let's celebrate; every issue is special of course, but this one really is extra special...
Featured Poets
Hilary Mellon: Sleep; On Lensfield Road; The Sentence; The Busker
Michael Swan Ibex; tasting notes; rivers go where rivers go
Guest Poets: Simon Armitage; Gillian Clarke: Glyn Maxwell
Poems from: John Cassidy; The Big Dub: John Lindley, A Hutch Full Of Heaneys:
Nessa O’Mahony, Komorebi; Julie-ann Rowell Hether Blether
Prose from Katriona Campbell, Stelle cadente,Philip Dunkerley, Solution; Verity Oswin, Dark Flight; Denise McSheehy, The Plate Spinner
Translation: Laura Chalar: Fernando Pessoa
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