A CHIDE'S ALPHABET (fur Sum)
  A Chide's Alphabet | Second Chiding | Third Chiding | Fourth Chiding | Fifth Chiding | Sixth Chiding | A Page About | Contact and Submissions | Guest Book | A Siren in the Annexe  

Edited by David Bircumshaw

A MODEST PREFACE

Follow the links above to navigate the site: this section pomps an introduction and parades a poem by Randolph Healy, the second, and longest, chiding is comprised of work by Candice Ward and Trevor Joyce, chiding three is inhabited by Alison Croggon and David Bircumshaw, whereas the fourth belongs to Robin Hamilton, the fifth chiding is delivered by Emma Lew and, last but most definitely not least, the sixth chiding is by Ian Davidson.


A CHIDE'S ALPHABET
(fur Sum)

An alternate assembly

Edited by David Bircumshaw
cheepstuff@hotmail.com
david.bircumshaw@ntlworld.com

(copyright the authors, 2001)

Acknowledgements are due to various publications in which some of these poems have previously appeared


A MODEST INTRODUCTION

The point of this magazine is to gather together disparities, poetry that is outside conformity but not necessarily repeating the polar opposition of mainstream/avant-garde and all the other over repeated war-cry binaries.

For this first, and fundamentalist, manifestation, I have chosen to keep prose content to a minimum, hence its fundamentalism, though a future, and prose supported expansion is planned. But for now, I wanted to present the reader with the vexatious questionable fragile presence of poetry in its unprotected self.

Here endeth (mostly) the prose.

David Bircumshaw


****************************************

STOP PRESS

New Enhanced Chide with Unexpected Prose.

View A SIREN IN THE ANNEXE a new review of British poetry through the nineties, as but lately delivered by Mr Andrew Duncan at the Cambridge CCCP.
ISSUE ONE, MAY 2001
St Martin of Leicester (above)

RANDOLPH HEALY

Flight

the tip of the tongue the small of the back
a city crowded unequally
difference identity
two sides of a right triangle
joined by a star so faint
the cries are indistinguishable

however fast he races
past workers leaving the factory
past waves crashing on the shore
past a robbery and a birth
sweet sour salt bitter

unable to outpace the dates

camphor musk floral mint
ethereal pungent putrid
seven keys broken in their locks
never again to open


********************************************

Send an email

Bardic Geographies
The magazine currently presented is about the equivalent of 40 A4 (UK) pp long. Most of the poetry here is new, though some has been previously published, and anyone viewing the material is reminded that although it is free for personal use, the authors do assert their moral right to copyright.

A Chide's Alphabet (for Sum) is an international magazine of the latest poetry, issue 1 features Trevor Joyce and Randolph Healy (Eire) Candice Ward (USA) Alison Croggon and Emma Lew (Australia) Ian Davidson (Wales) Robin Hamilton (Scotland) and David Bircumshaw (England)

A Chide's Alphabet (Online) ISSN 1475-6110

A Chide's Alphabet (Print) ISSN 1475-6102

Link to the CCCP site

Go for the CCCP


Back to index