Years ago I used to edit a journal and, as with Oversteps, the work had to be done on a shoestring. Every quarter my lovely family, friends and neighbours would get together round my kitchen table to pack all the copies of the journal and send them out to the subscribers. Life, and technology, have moved on marvellously, and in sending out the Oversteps Newsletters I have done it by email.
However, this, too, can be fairly labour-intensive, so I am now moving on, and will in the coming months experiment with posting the newsletters on a blog. If you are reading this, you have already opened the blog. May I encourage you, please, to Follow the blog, so that you receive notification when I post a new one?
After a slight lull over the summer, I’m pleased to report that we have two Oversteps books out this week.
Prospero’s Bowl by Ken Head (ISBN978-1-906856-41-0) £8
Ken Head reviews regularly for Ink, Sweat & Tears. George Simmers, the Editor of Snakeskin, writes of Ken’s work: Ken Head’s poems give us life unvarnished, its difficulties, its pains, its consolations. True.
Spool by Robert Cole (ISBN 978-1-906856-40-3) £8
Robert Cole has lived in India, Mexico, England and France, and his poetry reflects these different countries and cultures. He was, for ten years, the Editor of the magazine Chimera.
All Oversteps books, along with a sample poem from each collection, can be seen on our website, and can
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Oversteps events coming soon
Several Oversteps poets wil be reading at the launch of Broadsheet as part of the Exeter Poetry Festival, 30th September
Alwyn Marriage is reading at the Prize-winners’ event at Ace Art Gallery, Andover on Thursday 3rd October
Christopher North will read at Spanish Tapas at the Torbay Poetry Festival on 24th October
Rebecca Gethin will read at the Torbay Poetry Festival on 28th October
Alwyn Marriage will be leading a workshop as Poet in Residence at Winchester Cathedral on 31st October
Alwyn Marriage will be reading in Winchester Cathedral on Friday 1st November, then discussing the Creative Collisions project with artists with whom she has been collaborating.
Recent prizes and other news
Simon Williams and Susan Taylor have launched a new poetry publication, called Broadsheet
Joan McGavin was Runner-up in the High Cross House poetry competition run by the National Trust
Ross Cogan was commended in the Ware competition
A C Clarke came second in the Segora competition
Christopher North was awarded second prize in the latest Poetry on the Lake competition,
and Michael Swan, Kathleen Kummer and Hilary Elfick were shortlisted
Alwyn Marriage won the BigUp Words poetry competition
Joan McGavin has become a trustee for the new Winchester Poetry Festival, starting in September 2014
Mandy Pannett has been appointed Poetry Editor of Sentinel Literary Quarterly
Alwyn Marriage is Poet in Residence at the Winchester 10 Days Arts Festival this Autumn
Prospero’s Bowl, by one of our new poets, Ken Head, will be featured in Issue 202 of the ezine Snakeskin.
Alwyn
Managing Editor, Oversteps
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