Call for poetry Kalyna Review

Submissions requested for the Kalyna Review - this includes poetry and  fiction (including translations), photography, prints and art.

The act of reading allows us to migrate on a brief looping journey into someone's imagination, someone else's culture. The poetry and prose collated [in the Kalyna Review] open several different worlds to the reader. ...So step into our leaky little linguistic boat and enjoy the ride. Who knows where you might go and who might lounge in the bows beside you?

You can find full details here http://www.kalynareview.com/submissions/4574690274

poetandgeek.com Issue 9 - the myth issue - is out now

Helen Shay considers Orpheus on the underground. Steve Komarnyckyj ponders the saints and the seabirds in liminal Edinburgh and beyond. Rob Yates translates. Josie Tutty dips a toe in the Styx, while Ed Waverley discovers Atlantis.

And John D Robinson sneaks in the closest thing to prose to ever feature in p&g.

We invite you to cross over to the other side...

New work from Steve Komarnyckyj, Judith Taylor, Lou Siday, Josie Tutty, Nick Monks, John D Robinson, Helen Shay, Robert Ferns, Phil Wood, Rob Yates, Kat Soini, Laura Carter, Dave Migman, Ed Waverley and Ashby McGowan.

Read the full issue here http://www.poetandgeek.com/issue9/issue09.html

Issue 9 poetandgeek.com coming soon

The mythic issue 9 poetandgeek.com washes up on the shores of 2015 with new work from Steve Komarnyckyj, Judith Taylor, Lou Siday, Josie Tutty, Nick Monks, John D Robinson, Helen Shay, Robert Ferns, Phil Wood, Rob Yates, Kat Soini, Laura Carter, Dave Migman, Ed Waverley and Ashby McGowan.

If you cannot wait for its enwebification, try older issues at http://www.poetandgeek.com/magindex.html

The raspberry's eyelash available now

Pavlo Tychyna (1891-1967) one of a generation of supremely gifted Ukrainian writers who came to be known as the "Executed Renaissance" because most of them died at the hands of the Soviet regime during the 1930s. Tychyna survived by writing collections of hideous Stalinist doggerel. In later years, as the political climate relaxed, he was able to rediscover his talent and produce work which was both supreme poetry and acceptable to the regime. He always remained haunted by the repressions of the 1930s during which millions of Ukrainians died in the terror famine of 1932 to 1933.

His book translated and edited by Steve Komarnyckyj is available now from Poetry Salzburg books.

More information from http://www.poetrysalzburg.com/psr.htm