 The Yellow Crane J. Brookes 20 Princes Court The Walk Roath Cardiff CF24 3AU UK #20 Before commenting on this review please read the FAQ page Home page Notes for publishers Want to be a reviewer? Anthologies. Books. Audio. Magazines. Software. Video. Artefacts. Web design by Gerald England This page last updated: 8th May 2004. |
The Yellow Crane #20 | |
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Light, dry humour is present in this issue, eg Jonathon Price's FROM THE MISSING DISC (HOSPITAL RADIO) OK, there's Neil Finn, Fat Boy Slim or Mel and Kim, Duran Duran, Brotherhood of Man, Gilbert O'Sullivan, we've got Sheryl Crowe, Status Quo and Suzi Quatro, Chris Rea, Tears for Fears, perhaps you'd prefer Britney Spears...listing anything but what the patient wants to hear (the repetition of Britney Spears throughout which suggests the DJ's personality stops this merely being a list poem) or Kathryn Daszkiewicz's GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE which ends: Your DIY gave a whole new meaning to what's known as shelf life Predictably, it all came crashing down around my ears.and a touch of black humour in Paul Henry's THE DIRECTOR'S CUT: Not so much the double chin the beer-gut or the jaded grin but his very life - at the mercy of her clinical eyes...Sheenagh Pugh provides a more usual YELLOW CRANE poem in THE GARDEN OF THE LAST NIZAM where ...bare, unpruned rose branches straggle to a single bud. The fountain is choked with leaves. Weeds force apart the wall's cracks, overgrow the paths that are going back. No-one walks here...and what seems to be straightforward description is working as imagery and showing rather than telling. YELLOW CRANE looks for well-crafted poems and will publish the lesser known alongside established names. | ||
| reviewer: Martin Grampound. |