New In: Frida and I Don't Know What I'm Writing About by Stephen James

Prolific Manchester writer Stephen James has sent us a couple of tiny zines, Frida and I Don't Know What I'm Writing About. You can find out more about him and his work over at http://folknwords.tumblr.com/.

New In: Power to the People

Power to the People is a "home-made, cut & paste, Old Skool arty-farty free poetry fanzine" by Mishi Morath, a Dulwich Hamlet supporter. Apparently Mishi saw a link to the All To Nah post on this blog and was inspired to produce his first poetry zine. Nice one!

The zine contains loads of poems about football, the police, war and everything between. 

New In: A Series of Poems About, Inspired By, and Written in Manchester and London (And some other zines too!)

Stephen James has sent us these three zines of his to add to the collection. Thanks Stephen! You can find out what he's up to on his excellent blog.

New In: The Chapess #4

The brilliant Cherry Styles edited The Chapess now has a fourth issue (it's a special 26 page A4 edition), and we've got a copy of it in the library now! It includes contributions from the following people:

Aimee Wall
Alexis Gross
Kara Jesella
Sara Sutterlin
Daisy Lafarge
Liz Kinnamon
Stella Lueng
Sarah Todd
Grace Denton
Jesse Riggins
Lauren Crow
Charlotte Mellor Meecham
Alice Slater
Beth Maiden
Anneliese Mackintosh
Charly Morris
Hannah Buckman
Cherry Styles

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New In: Nothing Really Mattress/Speaking Ill of the Dead and Am I a Stick Man? by Stephen James

We're slowly working through a backlog of zines here! There'll be loads to come on the blog in the next couple of weeks, I promise. These two, by Manchester based writer Stephen James, have jumped the queue because we wanted to tell you about a nice event you can go to that he'll be reading/launching his new self published book at.

You can also see Salford Zine Library favourite Zach Roddis there and there's some bands playing too. Best of all, it's free! Pop along, why don't you.

You might also have seen a bit of buzz about there being a Northwest Zinefest in November. There'll be more details announced soon so keep your eyes peeled! Follow @nwzinefest for all the latest news. Also, if you have loads of chairs and tables that you can let us borrow for the day, get in touch.

New In: Hand Job Literary Zine - Spindles & Ball Screws

The fourth issue of Hand Job is bigger and better, full of revolutionary writings, some that will make you think and others that make you smile. This issue is filled with the usual as well as a comic strip, quiz and crossword!

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New In: Adventures in Menstruating Poetry + Comic Special #1

This super special split issue of Adventures in Menstruating by Chella Quint is half poetry, half comic. We managed to pick ourselves a copy of this up at the Leeds Zine Fair where we picked up loads of other zines too. I'll be posting as many of them as possible up on here over the next few days!

Meanwhile, take a look at the Adventures in Menstruating site while you're waiting.

New in: Gaudy Verse II

"The second issue of Gaudy Verse features poems about artistic young dons, dancefloor catastrophes and smartphones that won't let you out of their sight."

You can buy yourself a copy of Gaudy Verse 2 on Etsy for £1.50.

New in: English Chicago Review Issue 3

Issue three of The English Chicago Review features poetry from Rowland Bagnall, Rebecca Bird, Jonathan Butcher, Jim Conwell, Alan Corkish, Anthony Costello, Craig Coyle, Stephen Devereux, Doug Draime, Brett Evans, Andy Fletcher, Chris Hardy, Aideen Henry, Richard Hughes, Nigel Jarrett, Allan Johnston, PD Lyons, Mary McCollum, Tim McLafferty, Ottilie Mulzet, Robert Nisbet, Jon Plunkett, Laura Potts, Wendy Pratt, Kieran Setright, Maria Taylor and Lucy Winrow.

http://englishchicagoreview.blogspot.co.uk/

New in: Hand Job Issue Two

"Hand Job is a literary zine that has a range of poetry and short stories from around the UK, as well as sporadic illustrations throughout. Issue 2 features writing on a range of subjects, from OFSTED, to people drowning."

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New in: Gaudy Verse

Gaudy Verse is written by Orla Foster and contains poems about things like "the pleasure of piling gherkins between three slabs of bread", looking for jobs, gap year students and Chris Martin.

You can buy a copy from A Closed Caption's Etsy page.

http://aclosedcaption.wordpress.com/

New in: David Shit: Poems 2012 - 2013

A selection of poems from 2012 - 2013 about desire and its place within the constant flow of life and death, not only as experienced by us day to day but also seen with the forensic eye of a scientist or the long view of a historian.

David is an unpublished writer from Sydney and mainly writes poetry and short articles. He is interested in the physical world, and how the story of science tells us this, forms and influences our emotional worlds.

http://davidshit.net/

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New in: Turbulence Magazine issue 14

Turbulence is a printed poetry magazine established in 2009 seeking to publish the best poetry it can find. It started out in Hull, East Yorkshire, a city described by Peter Porter as "the most poetic city in England" and is now based in Oxford.

Issue 14 features poetry from David Andrew, Aaron Anstett, David Bellusci, Byron Beynon, Ken Champion, Joe Eldridge, Chris Fenton, Andy Fletcher, Kathy Halliday, Scott Hartwich, Anne Higgins, Maria C.G. Hofman, Fred Johnston, Ric Lee, David Lewitzky, Mary McCollum, Robert Nisbet, Kate O'Shea, Bethany W Pope, Pam Riley, Stephen R Roberts, Anthony Ward and Lucy Winrow. The cover artist is Susan Duncan.

www.turbulencepoetry.blogspot.co.uk

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