Our latest issue of Urban District Writer, poetry about urban life today often in a beaty-manner, has Paul Tanner in an irreverant pose on the front cover and poems by Tanner, our poet of the year Bobby Parker,Henry Blake, Brendan Hawthorne and your truly. Simon Robson does a short prose piece entitled My Dad Was Rock &
Roll, and Lucy Winrow gives the lowdown on New Brighton.Rachel Burns and Frankfurt’s Mark Turk complete the proceedings.See what was found on a visit to Margate’s Dreamland after a period of 50 years.
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Purple Patch is doing nicely thanks to all you fans, but if you haven’t seen the latest issue, no.121,there’s the tongue-in-cheek attack that we call the Gossip Column, poetry from amongst others
Mike Newman, John Terry, John Stocks,Jane Moreton, Norman Bissett, Kate Edwards,Sam Smith,Mike Ellwood,Terry Quinn, Geoffrey Winch and Harriet E. Rose.

A must is the annual Best of the Small Press Poetry Scene lists, with The Slab winning best mag. spot, Bobby Parker best poet, Gwilym Williams best Collection. Freefall, USA, was best overseas mag. Get a copy for the full ist £2 from me at 25 Griffiths Road, West Bromwich B71 2EH. You could well be in it.

Info from Geoff Stevens, editor PP and UDW