The current Snakeskin is a double issue, so the next one (no specific theme, all contributions welcome) will appear in January.

The theme of the February 2010 Snakeskin will be

WORK

including housework, homework, yard work, paid work, any kind of work.

It will be guest-edited by Jessie Randall. Please send her up to six poems on the topic. No
previously-published poems. Simultaneous submissions are allowed. No
attachments; poems should be in the body of the email.

The deadline is December 1.

Jessy Randall's email is :
jessyrandall@yahoo.com

Poems for other issues should as usual come to editor@snakeskin.co.uk.

George

By the way -

When you send poems - please do make it clear that it's poems you're sending . 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. Usually.

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*Snakeskin poets in print*

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

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L. Fullington has published several books with Lulu, including How Different the Distance.
George Simmers's latest collection (available from Lulu.com) is Light.




Also available:
An Essay on Rhyme and other Verses.

Jessy Randall has published  a full-length book, A Day in Boyland, with Ghost Road Press. More information here.


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Helena Nelson has edited Unsuitable Companions, an anthology by many hands, matching the mood of her own Unsuitable Poems. Her Starlight on Water is published by Rialto.

Check out Helena's  publishing imprint: www.happenstancepress.com

 

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Ken Head's Listening for Light is available from Poetry Monthly Press


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Rubbing the Lamp is Martin Parker's latest colection of (mostly) light verse. Sample and buy via  www.martinparker-verse.co.uk

Leonard Kress, Sappho's Apples, HarrowGate Press, 2000
85 pages, $10.00. Available from:
www.amazon.com 
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Gregory Leadbetter's The Body in the Well is published by Happenstance Press.

Rose kelleher Rose Kelleher's new collection has an introduction by Richard Wilbur.

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Maggie Butt's Lipstick is published by Greenwich Exchange.

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.

Poets wishing to submit their work should simply e-mail it in this direction.