This issue is dedicated to the people of Xaouen, Rif, Morocco.



Dear Poets and Readers,

§   Our April edition  introduced Richard Vallance's masterpiece Sappho's Odes.
These Odes have been entirely reconstructed through the poet's imagination from the existing fragments in their original Greek form. As the work is quite extensive (six Odes), their full publication is done serially and concludes in this issue with Odes IV through V.

§   We are sorry to say farewell to our contributor Mike Burch, author of The HyperTexts, who will always be welcome back. Yet, pleased to introduce, as a new Resident Poet, our old friend, worldwide web famous, the one&only Jim Dunlap. We look forward to his regular contributions, together with Canadian Helga Ross and Sara Russell with her Norris Cartoons.

§   Featured poets this month include --in random order:
Andres Fisher, Ian Thorpe, Richard Vallance, Amparo Arrospide and Leland Jamieson. Thanks to us all.



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π]γχυ δ΄ εμαρες σνετον πησαι 
π]ντι τ[ο]τ΄͵ γρ πλυ περσκθοισα 
κλλος [νθ]ρπων λνα [τνδρα 



§    A full perusal of Poetry Life and Times is quite a read & bear in mind there are ten years of Archives --yes we are now running for more than ten years--, accessible to the devoted reader, whilst at our friendly link section, access can be gained to further poetry sites.


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ANNOUNCEMENTS





Looking forward to your submissions for next August 2008 Issue of Poetry Life and Times.

Please remember this time the formats preferred will be sonnets, villanelles and haikus, preferably, rather than free-verse, though it might not be an absolute restriction. Thanks.


FORWORDS 94, Wed 21 May 2008

Spoken word, poetry, live literature events in the Sheffield area for the coming month. For information on forwords, listings and
subscriptions, visit http://www.access-space.org/forwords/.








Canadian Zen Haiku canadien ISSN 1705-4508

Published quarterly, is one of the world premier haiku journals in print


Sonnetto Poesia ISSN 1705-4524

is the only international quarterly sonnet journal in the world from

Aux Éditions Describe Adonis Press, Ottawa, Canada

The editors are looking for fresh approaches to the sonnet form
in the twenty-first century, composed in contemporary English

For more information on submissions
please contact the publisher at:  vallance22@gmail.com




SFPA

The Science Fiction Poetry Association


Poetry
    Upcoming Themes-
  • January/February 2008: Open.

  • March/April 2008: Surreal, humorous, emotions.

  • May/June 2008: Escape, memory, transitions.

  • July/August 2008: Open.

  • September/October 2008: All dark poetry issue (all genres).

  • November/December 2008: Prose poems (limit 500 wds max-3 cents/wd). Bruce Boston, guest editor.



§ Looking forward to your poems... you can join our poets and readers group at youtube and watch some very interesting videoclips and animations with poems set to music, by Christina Rossetti, Emily Bronte, William Blake and many others. You are welcome to upload your own clips (it's extremely easy).

Please remember to follow our  submission guidelines: Only original poems and articles will be considered for publication.

Further notices for contests and reviews: Check Poetry Life and Times interactive files.


If you are submitting poetry, you can also contact us at our postal address: Robin Ouzman, 50 Constable Place, Sheffield S14 1AX, Great Britain.

For a Link and banner Interchange: check our Friendly Links.

Poems should be in plain text either as attachment to an email (*.rtf or *.doc) or  in the body of an email, with a small jpeg author picture attached, also a bio, wictures are best at a maximum of 520 pixels across, otherwise they take ages to arrive by email, especially in bitmap or TIFF format. We recommend that poets click here for the submission guidelines  for full details, and please, always use a spellchecker.





Best regards, Wishes and Love from the Editors.



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