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Issue Five of Otoliths is now here. One year old and as lively as ... It contains work by Paul Siegell, Andrew Topel, Jordan Stempleman, Ernesto Priego, Paolo Manalo, Eileen Tabios, Jeff Harrison, Katrinka Moore, Corey Mesler, Raymond Farr, Steve Rodgers, Robert Lee Brewer, Mark Cunningham, Martin Edmond, Steve Timm, James Sanders, Audacia Dangereyes, Thomas Fink, Spencer Selby, Maria Zajkowski, Richard Lopez, Marcia Arrieta, Tom Hibbard, Matina Stamatakis, Louise Landes Levi, Márton Koppány, Anny Ballardini, Jill Jones, Craig Santos Perez, mIEKAL aND, Dax Bayard-Murray, Ed Schenk, MTC Cronin, Alana Madison, Alexander Jorgensen, Andrew Taylor, Carol Novack (& Stan Crocker), Stephanie Green, Maurice Oliver, Caleb Puckett, David-Baptiste Chirot, Derek Motion, James Maughn, Michael Rothenberg, Tom Beckett, Nick Piombino & Richard Kostelanetz.

The new edition of foam:e is now online. Poets featured include Michael Aiken, Marcia Arrieta, Chris Bell, Iain Britton, Joanne Burns, Sam Byfield, Jill Chan, Alison Eastley, Raymond Farr, Kristin Hannaford, Libby Hart, Anne Heide, Donald Illich, Carol Jenkins, SK Kelen, Misbah Khokhar, Heather Matthew, Vlanes (Vladislav Nekliaev), Maurice Oliver, Jody Porter, Ynes Sanz, Nathan Shepherdson, Louise Waller, Samuel Wharton, Les Wicks and Jena Woodhouse. And Les Wicks has put together a homage to poets who have either taken part in or will take part in the Festival International de la Poésie at Trois-Rivières, Quebec. Poets featured include Bernard Ascal, Gaston Bellemare, Maxianne Berger, Eric Charlebois, Sylvestre Clancier, David Fraser, Abigail Friedman, Paul Gilbert, Philip Hammial, Jill Jones, Marcel Labine, Martin Langford, Dyane Léger, Erik Lindner, Rufo Quintavalle, Daniel Samoilovich, Paul Savoie, Lambert Schlechter, Carolyn Marie Souaid, Jacques Tornay & Hyam Yared.

There's some good stuff available here from the archives of The Chicago Review.

The much esteemed Cordite is refreshed with issue number 25: Generation of Zeroes . And at last something to come home to, the sixth issue of Divan is finally on line. Some of my thoughts on blogging are here .

Belatedly, I should note: Issue Number Five of Melancholia's Tremulous Dreadlocks wherein, amongst many others, are these poems , and nthposition wherein these poems .

The latest and, sadly it seems, the last issue of Space is just out. The editor is Anthony Lynch, with David McCooey assisting. It includes: poetry by Peter Bakowski, Connie Barber, Annie Barclay, Craig Billingham, Grant Caldwell, Louise Crisp, Nathan Curnow, Stephen Edgar, Toby Fitch, Claire Gaskin, Paula Green, Hilaire, Jennifer Harrison, Matt Hetherington, Richard Hillman, Phil Ilton, Lisa Jacobson, Jill Jones, Paul Kane, John Kinsella, Anthony Lawrence, Louise Oxley, Dorothy Porter, Kimberley Rankin, Peter Rose, Robyn Rowland, James Stuart * paintings by Michele Burder * fiction by John Cameron, Gregory Day, Karin Francis, Fiona Hile, Joanna Kujawa, Alex Skovron. * essays by Madeleine Hamilton on the voyeur of Playboy pin-ups, Amanda Johnson on the road to nowhere in Australian painting, Lee Kofman on Odessa’s hard rain. * reviews from Lisa Gorton on two recent memoirs, James Ley on an ambitious first novel and Michelle Borzi on five recent Australian poetry collections G...