March by Andrew TaylorBuilding on his debut collection Radio Mast Horizon(Shearsman Books, 2013) Andrew Taylor takes the reader on a journey through landscapes and places such as the Welsh hills, the West Coast Mainline and the north docks of Liverpool. Travel is a recurring theme throughout these poems, alongside music and the seasons and the shifts they bring. From having coffee in quiet city centre cafs to travelling around complete rail networks, Taylor invites the

These are lines and stanzas and poems that signal wisdom beyond his youth

and Chris McCabe brings Villon into the 21st Century

After the war he became a popular broadcaster

It’s a book of gentle humour and savage irony

these poems chart a search for meaning in a disintegrating world

Meet Lela – a clever little girl who is also very stubborn

he is a deranged voice in the wilderness

is the issue’s Guest Writer

deceptively simple…her range is wide

Letters to Ted (2003)

is bound to give him

to their finest hour