NEW HOPE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW ON-LINE

STAR*LINE is the journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and as such it carries reports from the SFPA, such as in this issue, the SFPA Financial Statement, the results of members' ballots on elections and annual dues increases, and various other announcements including a change in editorship. The change is effective immediately, but new editor Tim Pratt's first issue will be 25.5. In spite of all this 'business' there is also plenty of genre poetry having science fiction, fantasy and/or horror themes and content.

The level of quality of the writing is high and includes work from names well-known to anyone familiar with current genre poetry. This issue opens with a two-page obituary and tribute to Keith Allen Daniels, a chemist, engineer, and founder of the SF imprint, Anamnesis Press. Following this are longish poems from Tim Pratt and Kendall Evans called 9 ARGUMENTS FOR BLOWING UP THE MOON and A TAPESTRY OF UNICORNS. The former is full of wit and humour but in the end it approaches the saltiness of the tears of a clown whereas the latter is an ekphrastic journey through the fantastic but then again:

	The tapestry is old, its colors
	bleed into our world.