Tears in the Fence
an independent, international literary magazine
Tears
in the Fence is a community of poets, writers and readers that are
exploring different literary ways forward. It is marked by openness and
difference rather than closure and by humanitarianism rather than any
dogma. Each issue has poets and writers from around the world,
translations and a substantial critical section with essays, reviews,
articles and commentaries.
News:
Issue 54 is now available and Issue 55 is being compiled as you read this.
Issue 54 features poetry, translations and prose by writers including
Carrie Etter, Ziba Karbassi, John Kinsella, Gerald Locklin, Catherine McMamara, Jeremy Reed and
Seán Street.
The critical section features
Jennifer K. Dick on Michelle Naka Pierce,
Nigel Wheale on Peter Riley,
John Welch on Fawzi Karim and
D. M. Black, Steve Spence on Tim Allen and Rupert Loydell,
Nathaniel Tarn on Lindsay Hill,
Barry Hill & John Wolesley and Anthony Barnett’s Antonyms on Aimé Césaire and D.S. Marriott.
We welcome
Dzifa Benson to Tears in the Fence as
website editor. She has been a regular reviewer for the magazine for
many years now. She will also be co-ordinating our future events and
editing this newsletter. She welcomes contributions to the blog and
newsletter as this is a vehicle to link and unite the community of
writers and readers that support the magazine. We welcome literary news,
notices, details of events, festivals and conferences as well as
competitions and other literary related information that might be of
interest. Dzifa blogs at
Small Objects of Desire and
Sister Siren's Room.
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Please buy a copy for a friend, subscribe and donate to the magazine through the
website. Please pass on this newsletter to anyone you think might be interested.
Julia Swindells:
I am grateful to Jonty Driver for advising Julia Swindells to submit
some poems to the magazine. I greatly enjoyed working with her on the
development of her poems and discussing the civic responsibility of
being a poet. She was an engaging and enthusiastic woman eager to learn
about modern poetry and criticism. I think that she enjoyed our critical
connection. We corresponded regularly right up to her death. I miss
here correspondence.
‘Narghile Visions’, published in issue 54, was the last poem that she
worked on with my notes. Sadly, Julia resigned her position as Professor
of English at Anglia Ruskin University and took her own life by
drowning in the river Cam on 29 October 2011. Lisa Jardine wrote an
obituary in
The Guardian.
Donations:
We would like to thank the following for their donations to the magazine:
David Ball
Blair Ewing
Chris Hardy
Gary Lechliter
Pauline Suett Barbieri
Jackie Sullivan
George Ttoouli
Jessie Volk
We are determined to ensure that the magazine thrives during these
difficult economic times. Thank you for your help in supporting the
magazine.
David Caddy, Editor
