The New Sphinx - Issue 9

The latest edition of the excellent Sphinx - issue 9 – is just out. Sphinx is unique among poetry magazines because it doesn’t publish poetry. But it’s as full of good stuff as ever. This time, there’s a really interesting interview with Rupert Loydell of Stride magazine, an overview of artist/poet collaboration at Knucker Press, and reflections by Gordon Jarvie on self-publishing. Also an article by myself – on poetry blogging…

In addition, Sphinx’s new online chapbook reviews are now up at this link. My two are at the bottom – of Deryn Rees-Jones’s Falls and Finds and Ken Sutherland’s When the Fighting is Over. I love the “young reader’s” reaction to the second of these. Heh Heh. No danger of that young reader not getting straight to the point! Sphinx is excellent as usual and, more than almost any poetry-related magazine at the moment, well worth getting hold of.