MICHAEL GLOVER, responsible for both our first pamphlet, 'A Faint Dusting of Blue Hair', in far-off 2006, and our first book, 'For the Sheer Hell of Living' (2008) is about to burst into song again, this time from a publisher nearer home, Savage Poets Collective -
www.acmretro.com/savagepoetscollective - of his native Sheffield. 'Only So Much' will be launched on National Poetry Day, October 6th, and copies can be obtained from the publisher (£9.95).
15.9.2011

SAN MARCO POETS ON THE VAPORETTO. Filmgoers battling with steatopygous tourists on crowded Venetian public transport can be cheered by 'Poesie sul Vaporetto', a straight pinch from Judith Chernaik's 20-year-old London brilliant-wheeze 'Poems on the Underground'. The first batch of twenty included SMP's Patrick McGuinness (Montréal – OWB Booklet n.6), and the next round is set to include both Janet Fisher (Chopsticks – OWB Booklet n.10) and Jason Heroux (Black Coffee – OWB Booklet n.14). San Marco knows 'ow to pick 'em
2.9.2011.

PATRICK McGUINNESS has his first novel 'The Last 100 Days' (Seren) longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize. Current Ladbrokes odds are 14/1 – on the generous side, says our man with his ear to the tannoy.
25.8.2011.