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Issue #16 October 2009

This issue's picture is of a sculpture by, and in the grounds of the well-known sculptor, Heather Jansch. I was a poet-in-residence there for a day during the recent Devon Open studios project.  A couple of days later I moved on to a gallery in Kingsbridge, Devon where I was one of four Moor Poets who had responded to the art work of Anita Reynolds and Mike Glanville. We read our poetic responses at the open evening for this exhibition.

There is clearly a lot of potential for crossings into other artistic  areas, and despite the continuing gloom over the under-whelming status of poetry, there is still a lot of good poetry happening out there in one form or another. I have been very impressed by what I have been reading lately, just as I am sure you will impressed, intrigued, delighted etc etc by the  eclectic mix of poetry that I have selected for this the sixteenth issue which completes four years of Words-Myth  by the way. Say happy birthday everybody!   Graham

Contents

Featured poet: JIM BENNETT with four
poems
: "From End to Beginning",
"
The Intimacy of Strangers", "Sex in Six Poems and "Changed in Subtle Ways"

SERGIO A. ORTIZ
Illegal
The Problem With Boredom
The Sentinel
Water

ALAN PRICE
Chronos
La Strada Fini

JUSTIN ROBERTI
Neither Here Nor There

SUSAN TAYLOR
Breakfast With the Red Admiral
Cacophony
Crocuses

PETER WELTNER
Clothes Like a Dove

Contributor's Notes A--N
Contributor's Notes O--W

Hall of Fame--All previous contributors

D. J. CLARKE
Northcote Road

TAYLOR GRAHAM
Persephone's Season
Mystery of the Floating Coffin

NOELEEN KAVANAGH
Come Again
The Three Gorges

JAMES KILNER
Bequest

FRANCIS MASAT
As Is
A Scraping

ALLY MALINENKO
Brooklyn Curved Away