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Welcome to Stride magazine! A gathering of new poetry, prose poems, articles and reviews (or whatever takes our fancy), Stride is regularly updated with new contributions. Enjoy your visit.
Rupert Loydell, Editor

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Current Articles

JAMES McLAUGHLIN'S TREE
always nearly

FAB FABBRO
David Kennedy reviews Adrian Clarke

DEFLATED EGO 7
David Briggs on David Briggs

ANNOTATED NOTES FROM ABROAD
David Toop's Sinister Resonance

SPARSE SOUL
Damian Furniss and Jim Goar

SPLIT LOYALTIES
Rob Young's Electric Eden and
Brandon Labelle's Acoustic Territories

POEMS FOR GRAVE DIGGERS
Tim Peeler is betting on the monkey man

ARLENE ANG, JUDY KENDALL
& LINDA FRANCE
reviewed by Howard Giskin

CRAWL TO THE MAILBOX
John Cash, Dylan & Rimbaud
in new poems by R.L. Greenfield

A KIND OF CONFUSION,
A KIND OF REVIEW
David Grubb's The Fire Child

HURRAH, ARSE-HORNS,
LONG LIVE PERE UBU!
David Kennedy on Alfred Jarry

BURSTING THE BOX
Reginald Dwayne Betts' new book

MIXED REACTIONS
Paul Sutton on David Kennedy

DICTIONARY OF DRIFT
Exploring Restless Cities

WRITING THE LOVED WORLD
new books by Chase Twitchell,
Darragh Breen and Doris Jareva

PAUL SUTTON IS THE REAL THING
says Martin Stannard

GOOD STUFF
Jack Underwood's Faber New Poets 4

FISHING FOR BEGINNERS
new books by James Bell,
Rhys Trimble and Damian Furniss

STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL
new books by Peter Finch,
Michael Haslam and Scott Thurston

SOME UNCUT PAGES
An Unofficial Roy Fisher

THE 'CONSCIENCE-RIDDEN' TRADITION
OF BRITISH SOCIALISM
Prakash Kona on Alan Morrison

TREES HAVE SUFFERED FOR THIS
new Acumen and Faber pamphlets

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD MIND
A.C. Evans on an alien art work

THE POWER OF HAVING FUN
an interview with Steve Spence

START A FIRE AT THE EDGE OF DARKNESS
new poems by Ian Seed

POWER PLAYS IN THE LIFE WORLD
Cyberliberties and Controlled Vocabularies

SO MANY UNSAIDS
an interview with Paul Sutton

AMERICAN IMMORTALS
David Kennedy on Burroughs & Cage

FARM BOY
Todd Boss' Yellowrocket

MAGIC IS PESSIMISIM
TAKEN TO ITS LOGICAL CONCLUSION
New poems from Nathan Thompson

EROTIC POEMS
Ira Lightman on e.e. cummings

CAUSES FOR CELEBRATION
Four Zimbabwean Poets & Grace Nichols

BARKING AT THE SHAPE OF AIR
Ian Seed and prose-poem possibilities

THE METAPHORICAL PIRATE
Nathan Thompson on Steve Spence

CONVERSATIONAL TONES
Louise Gluck's Village Life

CATCHING THE CROSSLIGHT
Peter Gillies on Edward Hopper

ON CLASSIFICATION
On Alasdair Paterson

UNCAGED SEA
Scott Thurston on John Goodby

MADNESS IN HIS METHOD
David Briggs' new collection

UNORIGINALITY & SIMON ARMITAGE
Paul Sutton is Seeing Stars

GRIM MEMBRANES
Robert Fontella is With Deer

LOOPY LUPIN & TALITY TALES
from Duncan Gillies MacLaurin

CH-CH-CHANGES?
Lorca, Neruda & Tsvetayeva

APATHY FULL STOP
Nick Kent, Barry Miles and Identity Parade
fail to interest. Bob Hicok does

DOES YOUR ENGLISH LET YOU DOWN?
let Steve Spence help

OUTSIDE THE PORTHOLE INVISIBLE GLISTENS
Jane Holland's Adventure Sky

LARGE PATCHES OF SILENCE
new poems by John McKernan

HERE IS YOUR WORDLIST FOR THE WEEK
good luck from Nicholas Liu

RABBITS ON THE WHOLE
ARE RELUCTANT TO READ POETRY
writes Joanne Merriam

INFINITE DIFFERENCES
two new anthologies of women's writing

THE BAT GOD
David Chorlton is waiting for the sphinx moth

METAPHYSICAL BANANA PEELS
Robert Fontella on Boris Yankelevich

TROUBLES SWAPPED FOR SOMETHING FRESH
a review and unreview by Phil Brown

APPARENTLY...
Helen Ivory and Matthew Caley

THE ADVENTURE OF TAKING SILLY CHANCES
new poems by David Lawrence

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
Ben Wilkinson on new pamphlets

DETAILED APPREHENSION
Meredith Miller takes a blue pencil
to Brandi Homan

THEIR SHINE ALMOST CIRCLES
new poems by Simon Perchik

HISTORY AS KNOWLEDGE
George Szirtes' Hungary

FINE WINE!
drunk on Elizabeth Bletsoe

REMEMBERING & INTERPRETING
Frances Presley's Lines of Sight

CONFUSION IS NOT A CRIME
Catherine Walsh's Optic Verve

PHOTOGRAPHS & FRISBEES
Jane Routh makes Inroads

INTOXICATED
Steve Spence on Elisabeth Bletsoe

THE TOIL OF EROSION
Peter Larkin gets to the root of it

NOTHING LIKE LOVE
James McLaughlin 4 Jenny Joseph

THERE'S SOMETHING IN THERE?
John Mingay reviews five new titles

I STAY INDOORS AND LEARN WORDS
new poems by Martin Stannard

A YOUNG WOMAN'S WORLD
smouldering relationships & pubic shaving

CULTURAL GROUPINGS
New Turkish and Moroccan poetry

GOING BIG
Joanne Fulman's Pageant

CURSE YOUR BRANCHES
David Bazan's new way of thinking

THE ROOM MUST BE FILLED
Philip Roth, Jeremy Reed & Myung Mi Kim

ANTICIPATION CROWDS THE CACTUS CAKE
Jake O'Leary's Language of Excess

ARCANA AND OTHER POEMS
James McLaughlin is transported

ON AND ON AND ON
Molly Peacock's The Second Blush

ACROSS THE PURPLE HEATHER
Peter Gillies on Thomas A Clark

YOU AS ONLY I KNOW
a poem sequence by John Mingay

MAKING WAVES
Nathan Thompson is in Poemland

A BIG BIT OF BREAD
& PLENTY OF CHEESE
Philip Terry on Jeremy Over

THREE SEA-WINDS
AND ONE TATTERED COAT
new titles reviewed by John Mingay

MORE THAN FOURTEEN LINES
Camille Martin's Sonnets

GOD OF HIS OWN IMAGINATION
David Briggs' Fool

VISTAS AND TWISTED EXPLANATIONS
James MacLaughlin's Odes

DAVID NASH IS NOT YOUR FRIEND
But he might be your cousin

HOMONYMS MADE PALPABLE AGAIN
Sheila E Murphy's Vespers

WHERE IT'S AT
Recent art and music books

WHERE DEEPS OF FEELING ARE
John McKeown's Sea of Leaves

EARS FINDING THE SHIFT
New freedoms, new translations

SCATTERING DUST IS GOOD PRACTICE
Camille Martin's double sonnets

THE EDITOR'S PICKS 2009

UNNATURAL EVOLUTION
Tony Lopez's Darwin

A CONTINENT APPEARS
Mary Michaels' Tide

A CENTURY OF POETRY REVIEW
Jane Holland catches her breath

SHE DREAMED; HIS WORLD SHIFTED
Carolyn Hart's Aurora

ANDY WARHOL IS NOT YOUR FRIEND
But he might be your cousin

SEARCHING FOR TROLLS
The Dark Monarch and The Psychick Bible

PENGUINS IN PERIWIGS
and other new poems by K.J. Hannah Greenberg

ONE WORLD OR ANOTHER
Peter Dent's interlocking planes

DECEIVING WILD CREATURES
Steve Spence on Jeremy Over

ARE WE NOT DRAWN...
On the beach with Peter Philpott

IT IS THE SAME VOICE IN THE MOUTH
Ian Seed repeats the procedure

THE DOOR OF TALDIR
Bill Sherman on Paul Evans

MISTS & FLAMES
Abi Curtis' Unexpected Weather

THE SWEEP AND TUG OF LANGUAGE
Alan Halsey's Term as in Aftermath

AN ASSAULT UPON THE CITADEL
Robert Sheppard's Warrant Error

FROM THE BOOK OF RANDOM ACCESS
Alan Baker is crossing the great water

SOME STATIC HAS TAKEN HOLD
Simon Perchik needs more batteries

NOAH NEVER RESTS
Peter Gillies reviews The Ark Builders

THERE IS WAY TOO MUCH
ALLITERATION IN THE SEA
James McLaughlin is having language problems

RECTANGLES NOT COTTONREELS
Phil Maillard is running full

LONDON: GHOST AUTOPSY
from Nick Scammell's sequence

HEY, DEAN YOUNG!
Tom Craze is experiencing a sugar low

ANIMALS ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS
"I wish he had written much more."

REMARKABLE
Botsotso. An anthology of contemporary
South African poetry

IAN McKEEVER AND ALAN GOUK
Rupert Loydell tries to get the overall picture

THE BACKWOODSMAN
Martin Caseley on Robert Frost on campus

POETRY AS A MIRROR OF THE NATION
David Kennedy reviews Voice Recognition

NEVER SITTING STILL FOR LONG
Steve Waling on four new collections

KNOWLEDGE OF TREES
Angela Topping on Peter Street

PABLO NERUDA WANTED TO
John Levy talks to spiders

SETTING THE IMAGINATION TO WORK
Rob Mackenzie is left feeling slightly lyrical

YOU ARE ALIVE & CAN THINK
despite the evidence, says Martin Stannard

A MODE OF MIND
David Hart tussles with more translations

A PASSAGE TO MORE THAN INDIA
Phil Maillard on John Gimblett

BLOGGER & BLATHER
Bill Greenwell doesn't get it

UPBEAT & DOWNBEAT
Betsy Sholl & Kevin Goodan

WHAT IS A POET WITHOUT A WINDOW?
Lauren Witts looks out

REINVENTING THE LANDSCAPE
Chris McCully & Matthew Welton

MEDITATIONS, SPECULATIONS, FRAGMENTS
Bill Greenwell on 3 new collections

THE SEA'S NOT LEVEL
declares Glenn R. Frantz

UNSETTLED OR INDEFINITE
James McLaughlin gets experimental

AS IF
Brandon Roy's Unusual Zoo

NO TRUTHS LIKE THE OLD TRUTHS
Gary Boswell on Adrian Mitchell & John Agard

MY OWN DEAD & NAKED POET
thinks Mark Goodwin

KEEPING SALT SOLVENT
Phil Brown on Luke Kennard & Tom Chivers

TALKING ABOUT ART
Recent art books, July 2009

A NOTE ON PROCESS
by George Ttoouli

SECRET MEANINGS
Ben Parker on 3 new collections

THE MARMALADE MY FRIEND IS ALL ON ME
confesses Nathan Thompson

NOWHERE'S FAR
Phil Bowen is strangely contemporary

SLIPPERY STUFF
Marina Tsvetaeva's New Selected Poems

THE PALACE OF OBLIVION
George Ttoouli on Peter Davidson

DON'T COUNT ON DECENCY
The Chronicles of Dave Turnip

A RIVER MIGHT EMERGE AS A METAPHOR
Jesse Garrick's Storied Rivers

LANGUAGE AND THINGS
Steve Spence on Giles Goodland

THE OLD DEVIL
R.S. Thomas' letters

INTERVIEWS & OVERVIEWS,
BIOGRAPHIES & BULLSHIT
Recent music books, June 2009

TWENTY MINUTES IN MANHATTAN
Michael Sorkin's New York

A GUIDE TO THE PERPLEXED?
Steve Spence on Philip Kuhn

DID WE SEE WHAT WE THOUGHT WE SAW?
Peter Dent skips the clear out

VISIBLE, AUDIBLE, TRUE OR FAITHFUL?
Larissa Miller & Augustus Young

MEMOS TO SELF
A is for anything you want it to be

FAITH & TRUST
Gardening with Cole Swensen

THE TASK IN HAND
David Hart on new translations

HOWLING IN THE DARK
at The Migraine Hotel

SOMETHING FROM NOTHING
new poems by Daniel Y Harris

PROBLEMS WITH HUMANS
Adrienne Rich's essays

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