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Bard #25 | |
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Bard is an A4 size pamphlet which advertises the other booklets and magazines published by Atlantean Publishing. The nine poems contained in this pamphlet are mostly quite short and diverse. JEAN-CLAUDE IN THE PARK by Christopher Barnes is perhaps the most arresting — an excerpt: You bottleneck the air with a crack and the ink of hot coffee tinctures pollen, a brain-shaped fungus.A 4-liner ANIMAL RIGHTS by D J Tyrer makes the point: Life disrepected, injected, infected, Lies spoken, trust broken, hate awoken, Tortured nights, animal rights, Protest songs against animal wrongs. | ||
| reviewer: Ron Woollard. | ||
| Bard #32 | ||
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Here is a well-made folded sheet printed both sides with 13, mainly short, poems. I would pick out PLAYING THE RACE CARD by Geoff Stevens, great in original ideas: A horse is only a pantomime bicycle flesh thrown over a skeleton frame is a lawnmower and a muckspreader working in tandem. It should not go out at night without lights or ride on pavements or be wheeled across pedestrian crossings. And not knowing these things does not excuse it from breaking the law. Unless of course it claims to be a racehorse.Of the THREE BRIEF POEMS by Chris James, the last appealed: Hush is that the sound of dying butterflies?ICEBERG by Dale Key, contains the novel idea of getting below the ocean surface 'vast as a glacier' and viewing 'paraffin Africa' from this position. A theme of the underside of continents as if they were thus available is intriguing as a poetic fantasy far from geological truth. | ||
| reviewer: Eric Ratcliffe. |