Information is posted virtually every day, regardless of the date counter says, unless – Orbis 163 should be out next week, and I’ve had to switch from gardening to Spring cleaning…

Kudos 95

SPRING 2013
Runs mainly from the end of March right up to the end of June,
and beyond in some cases –

£5 (subs still £18/4 pa)
‘Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! …
And yet what a subtle magic there’

Verily, with Verulam, Wasafiri, HISSAC, Curry Mallet, and Flamingofeather

Wax poetic with Poetryspace, Poetrybox and Poetry Next the Sea –
Fish and Mslexia

All over the place again: Fakenham, Bridport, Buxton,Winchester, Wigtown, Yeoville, with Oxford at your service

with all kinds of people, Keats & Shelley and Barbara Pym,
David Burland and Tony Lothian, Mary Charman Smith and Sara Park,
not to mention Henshaw and MacLellan
(prosaic and poetic -though sounds more like solicitors…)

And if you want jam on it… here’s the First Page
Plus a few more tasty treats from Battered Moons, Bare Hands,
Vancouver Cherry Blossom, Grist, Fire Hazard, Nick Darke
Chalk the Sun, and of course, not forgetting Made-up Words

17th MERE LITERARY FESTIVAL
BIENNIAL OPEN POETRY COMPETITION
Closing date: JULY 12th
www.merelitfest.co.uk
or SAE to MLF, Lawrences, Old Hollow, Mere, Wilts. BA12 6EG
Proceeds to Mere & District Linkscheme (Re.Charity No: 1062328)