Orbis 213, Autumn 2025

Front Cover Artwork: ‘The Cats Of Istanbul’ by Jan FitzGerald

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'What a beautiful looking edition ! Must get this. 

Congratulations on the magazine's longevity and high standards'

  (Anna Saunders, Director at Cheltenham Poetry Festival)

: ‘All the best to you, and to Orbis!’

(Glyn Maxwell; shortlisted for Best Collection in the Forward Prize)

'Best wishes for the journal - and congratulations on such a successful magazine over the years' (Joy Harjo, United States Poet Laureate)

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Associate Editor (Book Reviews): Maria Isakova-Bennett

Reviews by:

Philip Dunkerley; David Harmer; Jenny Hockey; D.A.Prince; Pauline Rowe; Andrew Taylor; Pam Thompson

Please note with new collections, press release in first instance

to the Book Reviews Editor - not review copies. And not to me,,,

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Contents roaming far and wide as ever, for example, Alle C. Hall and Kon Tiki, likewise,

Emmaline O’Dowd, who is also At sea, while Marjory Woodfield ventures Beyond Arabia. 

All a matter of Perspective, Teresa Heeks can tell you, but once back home,

would you like to find out about The Mermaid Of NW9, from Annemarie Cooper?

Or what exactly is Salvatore Difalco’s Buzz The Witty And The Fair?

Although, like Shamik Banerjee, you are sure to know all about A Poet’s Desk,

Then something to admire, with John McKeown, Her Gold Dress; never mind if you,

and Stuart Pickford, don’t know What Day Is It? Or, maybe, like L.B. Jørgensen, The Time(r)… Sorry.

Ah well, Aidan Fadden will tell you, anything can happen it seems, on our Rogue Planet,

so to finish with, and to whet your curiosity: Carole Glasser Langille

and Afraid is an adjective, to be – a verb.

You can find out more, in the latest issue of Orbis.

Featured Writer: Anne Osbourn

Praise Poem; Do we need to machine-learn orange in order to understand Autumn?;

Take my hand; REM; Elusions

Poets include Jan FitzGerald: The Cats Of Istanbul; Annemarie Cooper: The Mermaid Of NW9;
Salvatore Difalco: Buzz The Witty And The Fair; Teresa Heeks: Bricks; Trish Kerrison: Tether’s End;
John McKeown: Her Gold Dress; Stuart Pickford: Yellow Submarine

Prose from David McVey: Justice Delayed; Fiona Vigo Marshall: The Passeig;

Stephen Eric Smyth: Murramarra-Sha-na

Translation

 Judith Wilkinson, clouds in bassurels;

wolken in bassurels by Miriam Van hee

Past Master: Stephanie DuPont on Phillis Wheatley Peters  

Orbis 213 Contributors also include

Ruth Arnison; John Arnold; Denise Bennett; Amelia Dowler;

Philip Dunkerley; Wendy Goulstone; Lucy Hamilton; Oz Hardwick; Jenny Hockey;

Claire Louise Hunt; Chris Johnson; L.B. Jørgensen; Robert Kennedy; Clifford Liles;

Peter Lockhart; Mark Mansfield; Andrew Oram; Chiara Salomoni; Partha Sarkar;

Terry Sherwood; Michael Spinks; Miriam Sulhunt; Peter Sutton