Front Cover Artwork: ‘Bookworm’ by Kelly Marie Davidson
https://www.art2arts.co.uk/kelly-marie-davidson
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Orbis 200: What a beautiful looking edition ! Must get this.
Congratulations on the magazine's longevity and high standards
(Anna Saunders, Director at Cheltenham Poetry Festival)
Orbis 200: ‘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, Theresa Sowerby, Andrew Taylor, Pam Thompson
Please note with new collections, press release in first instance
to the Book Reviews Editor - not review copies
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One arm tied behind my back? With a bad shoulder,
putting this issue together certainly took some doing – but here we are.
Besides, it’s not as if tricky experiences can’t inspire poems.
Or tricky people, characters if you will, like The family physician, described by Michael Henry. And What They Say, as Roberto Christiano says…
But while you and Christian Worby make an early start,
off before dawn, it’s even more so with Mark Czanik: Poem in August.
So how about joining Daniel Fraser at The Lough, or Enda Coyle-Greene,
In The Musée d’Orsay? Myra Schneider, admiring The Gold Mask in The British Museum; Maria Isakova-Bennett, and The Rose and the Plate?
And wouldn’t you like to know what Sue Davies means by Milooma? In the end,
be assured by Sue Johns, because the contents of Orbis will all Dovetail
Featured Writer
Roberto Christiano: Jogging
My 101 Year Old Mother’s Memory
Deep In The Woods; What They Say
Game Of Roses
My Computer Guy Tells Me That When
Poets include Aaron Aquilina (Common Snapping Turtle); Benson Bobrick (Samson); Patricia Brody (Lost Art); Mark Czanik (Poem in August); Paul Genega (RIP); Maria Isakova-Bennett (The Rose and the Plate); Marilyn Ricci
(Treat your fear); Christian Worby (off before dawn)
Prose from Mickey J. Corrigan (Young Blood); Sue Davies (Crush);
Mark Reece (Large boats)
Translation:
Karen Petersen, The Way of Things; Tibetan Poet: Geshe Tashi Dhondup
Past Master: Ben Keatinge on John Boyle O’Reilly
Orbis 212 Contributors also include
Ed Blundell; Claire Booker; Angela Brodie; Jim Conwell;
Terry Culleton; Christine Curtis; Alan Dixon; Simon Fletcher;
Ann Gibson; Jenny Hamlett; Sean Howard; Ralph Mold;
Katherine Noone; Gabrielle O’Donovan; Ali Pardoe; Jo Peters; Jenna Plewes; Mykyta Ryzhykh; K.V. Skene; Davide Trame; Paul Truan
Readers’ Award, Orbis 211
Joint 1: Janet Laugharne (Marginal); Harry Waight (Man is born on fire)
Joint 2: Julie Burke (Goldilocks: a reflection on a life of crime); Fíona Donaghey (The Children’s Sunshine Home); S. C. Flynn (Children of the ice); Eve Jackson (Sculpted); Jane McLaughlin (Chilli Pepper)
Joint 3: Rob McClure (The Relativity of Simultaneity); Sara McNeill (West Highland Way); Angela Martinot (What is that elephant doing in my dream?); Martin Zarrop (Lift)
Joint 4: Fran Bourassa (The Land); David Callin (On preparing a wren pole); Michael Foley (The old man and the wind); Natalie Fry (The Land Turtle)
Front cover artwork: ‘Underworld’ by David Jones
Front cover artwork: ‘Good Night Irene‘ by Van Renselar