NEW HOPE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW ON-LINE

Featuring reviews, letters, opinion and adverts, MONOMYTH SUPPLEMENT aims to be lively and open to all-comers. Reviews here include John le Carré, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (comics not the movie), a piece on using The Lord of the Rings as a psychological model, short fiction from A C Evans, and three poems including David Allan Lambert's WHEN YOU LAUGHED (complete poem):

	no critic so scathing
	no audience so full of scorn
	as your laughter when you withdrew
	your forced well-wishes just as I dressed to read
 
	innocence scalded
	fellow feeling precisely flayed
	I watched you dip my trust in acid
	killing with the same water that once tasted sweet

... a free press doesn't mean that everyone should publish everyone else's material, irrespective of subject matter, belief system or one's own editorial policy... support for a free press also implies support for wider societal freedom...

How I understood it, and perhaps I misunderstood... is that as a review/listings magazine, Hobnail Review, would exclude such (eg Nazi-supporting) magazines from listings. To my mind that goes against a free press — yes, give a bad review stressing that it was racist... or put a warning on the listing, but do not exclude... Anyone else got a view on this?

An excellent mixed bag of adverts, articles — PSYCHOLOGY AND THE COMMON UFO, PUNK COMICS — letters, reviews, interviews — with D Martyn Heath — even the odd poem — Eric Ferris and Aeronwy Dafies — making it a cross between a fanzine, a review zine, a listings zine and a poetry zine.

Cheerful and friendly, it provides an excellent forum for material with might otherwise have no home to go to. I liked Aeronwy Dafies' cat poem WILD AT HEART:

	Bravely the hunters
	savage a nouse

The newsletter/in-house magazine of Atlantean Publishing, which does sterling work with its booklets and its series THE BARDS, consists of four A4 sheets containing a welter of information, requests for submissions on a mass of topics, a lot of interesting reviews (for example one on book-decos) and a vibrant letter page. It's got that slightly batty, minority-interest slant with such diverse subjects as conspiracy theories, Arthurian legends and UFOs; and it certainly looks like the editor, DJ Tyrer, has a thing about the Grail. Different print sizes can be irritating, especially the miniscule ones which are off-putting and prompt you to skip the pieces involved. There are readable articles by Steve Sneyd on the 19th century fantasy writer, Robert W. Chambers, and by Robert Dando on Mel Brooks, who, we are told, like Orson Welles,

started at the top and worked his way down.