Klepetar and Mice

Snakeskin Poet Steve Klepetar has published a new book: Speaking to the Field Mice.
It’s full of poems about stories, myths and magic.
If you go to the Amazon page, you can use the ‘Look Inside’ feature to read some of the poems.

April Snakeskin

The new Snakeskin will be coming online a little late – probably Wednesday or Thursday.

Paul Stevens

I am very sorry to hear of the death of  poet Paul Stevens, several of whose poems appeared in Snakeskin.

You can find Paul’s enjoyable poem, ‘Huh’ (and also hear him reading it) by clicking here..

Blogging in danger

The cobbled-together plans for British press regulation stray far beyond Leveson’s recommendations, to include blogs and other websites.
As Index on Censorship says:

“Bloggers could find themselves subject to exemplary damages in court, due to the fact that they were not part of a regulator that was not intended for them in the first place. This mess of legislation has been thrown together with alarming haste: there’s little doubt we’ll repent for a while to come.”

 

February Snakeskin

When we have a really good issue, and one bulging with interesting work, I sometimes wonder whether the best might not get lost among the good.

So, since February Snakeskin is now online, and contains a large number of lively poems, I am going to make sure that you don’t miss some that I like very much.

Annie Fisher’s Deathbed Poets I like more, I think, than any poem I have published in recent months.

BeccyPort is a poem new to me, and I think you really should read her two poems in this issue.

Alison Brackenbury is a long-standing Snakeskin favourite, of course, but this month her The Institute of Corrosion is rather special.

I’d also draw your attention to The Burning of Manuscripts by South African poet, Afzal Moolla. This is about the torching by militant Islamists of the Library of Timbuktu – a deeply depressing crime against human history and culture.

But there’s plenty more…

Bad writing

I enjoyed this analysis of Dan Brown’s worst sentences.

Happy New Snakeskin

We’re online – with an issue I’m rather proud of.

Poetic New year wishes to all our readers.

Online tomorrow

My apologies for neglecting the Snakeskin blog for a while, just leaving up messages about technical horrors.  But after that triple whammy of computer glitches and crises, I thought I’d give myself a holiday from the zine and come back refreshed in January.

So we are back tomorrow – and happily the glitches have not deterred some excellent contributors from sending in their work over the past few weeks. It’s one of the best issues for a while, I think.

A legacy of my technical problems is that some emails seem to be irrecoverably lost. I am particularly concerned about ones sent in October, containing poems not intended for the November ‘Childhood’ issue. If you sent poems then and haven’t heard from me, please do get in touch.

Now back to the final frills…

And it continues…

Just when I thought I was making my way out of techno-hell, two more problems have emerged.

The first is that the editor@snakeskin.org.uk email is not getting through as it should. For the time being, therefore, please send submissions and other emails to simmersgeorge@yahoo.co.uk .

The second is that my main computer has had a severe breakdown, possibly fatal. This means that uploading the complete Snakeskin archive has had to be paused for the moment. But we’ll get there in the end.

We’re back!

November Snakeskin is online.

On a new server, but still findable at http://www.snakeskin.org.uk.

Apologies for the break in service. Unfortunately the crisis happened over a couple of weeks when I was away from home.

All is now more or less sorted. The current issue is online, and the archive and other pages will follow tomorrow.

Let me know if there are any problems with accessing the site.