OWP No 95 – While Stocks Last
July 31, 2021
Author: KatNeocleousPoet
Katerina Neocleous is a poet and former co editor of the quarterly poetry journal, Obsessed With Pipework. She is published in multiple journals and anthologies. Message her directly for a copy of 'Wish' (Maytree Press 2019).
Bring Back An Elephant – straight from the press!
July 30, 2021
We’re excited to reveal the first pics of the new Flarestack title, Judy Tweddle’s elegant poemella (poems+novella), available with a new or current subscription of our quarterly poetry magazine Obsessed With Pipework, or £4.
Bring Back An Elephant by Judy Tweddle is a foursome reel, a gorgeous collage of individual poems connected by a persuasive narrative imbued with wisdom: Lawrence can’t paint but runs an art gallery; Elizabeth can and captures his heart. Beryl pieces things together and enjoys spreadsheets. Miriam finds her way as she goes blind. There is a stone elephant from Mahabalipuram. Two, in fact.
Having sorted through a lifetime of photographs, Judy Tweddle cut a circle from the ones she liked best and framed them. She found the resonances and juxtapositions pleasing. She realised that the same principle could work with her novel in progress. It is a tale of loss, perseverance, and loyalty. With dancing.
To buy your copy for £4: go to paypal.me/owppay or use account name Mr C H Johnson & the reference: charles.johnson72@aol.co.uk). Alternatively, make a BACS payment/credit transfer to Flarestack Publishing Starling Bank account 60-83-71 34031111.
Or subscribe to Obsessed With Pipework for £15 (£4.50 per issue) and get Bring Back An Elephant + 4 issues of poetry full of strangeness and charm.
UK pp is free, standard international costs apply to postage outside the UK.
The Forward Prize For Best Single Poem 2021 Submissions
March 3, 2021
Obsessed With Pipework is proud to announce that we have selected three poems, chosen from the qualifying issues, to submit to the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (£1,000). We considered eligible poetry from Issues 90 – 93, revisiting some excellent poems, which we have been glad to have published and shared with an ever-wider audience. This year’s judges are: Shivanee Ramlochan, Leontia Flynn, James Naughtie, Pascale Petit and Tristram Fane Saunders.
Join us over the next few weeks, as we share some of the poems that have graced us with their strangeness and charm this past year.
Issue 86, May 2019
June 7, 2019
Cover art by Graham Higgins, inspired by images from the poems in issue 86.
Here is a list of the poets and their poems:
Josie Alford: An Awfully Big Adventure;
Widemouth Bay
David Ball: The Diaries;
The Professional Writer
Ciaran Buckley: The footsteps;
The last god to leave
Louisa Campbell: Does it Jiggle?;
Exhibition
Kitty Coles: Collared Dove;
Kew;
Submersion;
Wasting
Claire Crowther: Sibyl at the School Gate;
Street Masters of Edinburgh
Elaine Dunn: Connoisseur of puddles;
Rosemary
Jackie Fellague: Carpe Diem;
Going over the mountain
Robert Hamberger: Blue wallpaper
Robin Houghton: Seeing the Small Picture;
Statistics;
The Metallurgy of Eddie Van Halen
Eve Jackson: From the Back Seat;
Paths
Peter Kenny: Thunderstruck
L Kiew: Bam;
The magic pudding;
Joe;
Undine
Michael Laskey: I gave her a pound;
Look-out;
1950;
Out;
What to Expect When You
Become a Window
Alan Lock: The Obvious room;
Together
Katerina Neocleous: After Beatrice
John Newson: Snow;
Towan Beach
Stuart Pickford: The Problem with Blue
Roddy Williams: The Coping Head
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