WHERE else in the world would you get a magazine like this for €5 ? The contents for the first issue of The Poetry Bus Magazine breaks down as follows.....77 pages, 36 poets,48 poems, 11 illustrations, 2 translations, 1 song, 1 pull-out colour print and one (possibly) life-changing experience in reading it.
Here's the list of contributors.
Chris Alba
Niamh Bagnell
Ronald Batteson (The Watercats)
Carol Boland
Kate Dempsey
Morgan Downie
Emer Fallon
Rachel Fox
Liz Gallagher
Rody Gorman
Peter Goulding
Jack Hayes
Vicky Ind (The Watercats)
Fred Johnston
Colm Keegan
Tess Kincaid
Jeanne I. Lakatos
Joyce Little
Aoife Mannix
Heather Martin
JoAnne McKay
Kat Mortensen
Jane Moss
Nuala Ni Chonchuir
Padhraig Nolan/Scalder
Karen Nowviskie
Maggie O'Dwyer
Dominic Rivron
Susan Sanford
Evie Shockley
Barbara Smith
Stephen James Smith
George Szirtes
Pat Thistlethwaite
Mags Treanor
Nancy Uhrhammer
Hilary Wakeman
John Wakeman
Tríona Walsh
Terresa Wellborn
Saint James Harris Wood
Zachary Monroe Costello Wood
Soon, soon, soon coming like real soon to a planet near you ! Look to the skies!
(Poetry Government health warning, 'Be aware, The Poetry Bus Magazine can be dangerously addictive') Do not read The Bus and operate machinery at the same time, poems may go up and down as well as across the page. Poetry Bus Magazine is a licensed susidiary of TFE global enterprises. Your home may be lost if you can no longer find it.
How soon?
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Ah, Rachel, like really really soon.We are hoping to print next week. Thanks for asking!
ReplyDeleteI am in severe danger of dying of excitement. What exalted company!
ReplyDeleteThe Bus!!!
ReplyDeletePerhaps before you print you could correct the spelling of UHRHAMMER. Yes, that's two, count'em 2 H's.
A ball & chain, this name!
Woo hoo, I love alphabetical order!!!
ReplyDeleteFirst person that's got mine right first time!
ReplyDeleteAnd, er, Uhrhammer? That's a legend of a name!
The Bus! Yay! Hold on . . . . I'm not on it? :(
ReplyDeleteI hope you're contributing yourself now!!
ReplyDeleteWhat away to go Titus, and ALL the poets are ready-salted, er, I mean exalted.
ReplyDeleteYes I got your name right, but Nancy's wrong and left out Heather and Emer altogether!! Doh!
Yes, Nancy, I'm really sorry.Thanks for pointing it out though, phew!
ReplyDeleteYou're on now Pure Fiction, that's a pure fact!
ReplyDeleteApologos.
I was rejected Pete, them's the breaks!
ReplyDeleteNo problem. Happens absolutely all the time. With several misspellings possible, I can actually keep track of what organization sold my name to what advertising company!
ReplyDeleteEek! I'm appearing alongside actual poets!
ReplyDeleteBring it on! I'm still watching the skies. It's still raining but is that a rainbow over Meath?
ReplyDeleteThanks Nan!
ReplyDeleteThat, Argent, is because you have written a great poem .So you are alongside them and they are alongside you. Cosy!
ReplyDeleteThere's always a rainbow over Meath, Kate!
ReplyDeleteAwesome news! I'm honored to be a part of it, too.
ReplyDeleteI want a copy!!!!!!
Phew - Thanks :) Can't wait to see it. Any date yet???
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