SNAKESKIN:

A first for Snakeskin this month, with the inclusion of soundtracks to accompany three of the poems. An experiment, really, to make sure that we could do it, even with the most basic recording equipment (and that excellent free software, the Audacity recording programme).
We'd like to hear from anyone who finds that the recordings don't work from them - they seem to be good in Internet Explorer, but Firefox may need plugins. Are they OK on a Mac, or on geeky Linux-type systems? Let us know.
Apologies to anyone who gets a sense of deja-vu. Yes, two of the poems are not of recent vintage, and can indeed be found in my Essay on Rhyme collection. They just seemed to be suitable ones to try out in front of the microphone.
We're hoping to include more sound files in future. Maybe even some videos. Watch this space.
I'd very much like to hear from poets offering sound versions - but please contact me first, before sending several megabytes of .mp3 files as an email attachment. We need to sort out technicalities before any recordings can be considered.

Keep sending text poems as well. They will always be our first priority.

George

By the way -

Do make it clear that you're sending poems. I get so much junk mail with surreal titles these days that I delete quite a lot unread. There's only so much of your life you can spend reading adverts for Viagra, or business proposals from Nigerians. Put "poems" or "poetry" or "Snakeskin" in the subject line, and the mail will get through.

Alison Brackenbury's Singing in the Dark is now published by Carcanet - and is terrific.

Jessy Randall has three chapbooks available: Slumber Party at the Aquarium, Because Mona is in the Psychiatric Hospital, and Broken Heart Diet. She has a full-length book, A Day in Boyland, forthcoming from Ghost Road Press. More information here (http://personalwebs.coloradocollege.edu/%7Ejrandall/).

Happenstance Press has just published Gill McEvoy's first pamphlet Uncertain Days - Highly rated.

Martin Parker has published PICK 'N' MIX, a bagful of assorted love, lust, indifference and Allsorts in verse that is not always as light as it first seems. Inventive and wry. Sample and buy via www.martinparker-verse.co.uk

Lisa Zaran has published The Blondes Lay Content. Isn't that a good title? It's published with the Lulu Press.

Helena Nelson's Starlight on Water is published by Rialto. She has also just published a pamphlet of Unsuitable Poems. You will enjoy them. Check out www.happenstancepress.com

Andrew Belsey has published "Four-Line Poems", a collection of over 100 of his four-line epigrams, jokes, lyric reflections, etc. (Look at a sample of them.)
The pamphlet is available from The Llwynywll Press, 2 Llwyn y Grant Terrace, Cardiff CF23 9EW
Price £4.

Leonard Kress, Sappho's Apples, HarrowGate Press, 2000
85 pages, $10.00. Available from: www.amazon.com or www. harrowgatepress.com

Bruce Bentzman, our soliloquising suburbanite, has published a story collection through Xlibris. Find it and order it on www.amazon.com

If you've any suggestions for improvements, or any other comments on the zine, the editor would be very pleased to hear from you.