CURRENT ISSUE


JULY 2025



CONTENTS

Welcome 

Richard Dobbs: Word Wise

Keith Taylor: Pub Sign Awareness 

Jill Rundle: Sour Grapes 

Bernard M Jackson: Down, Down to Romney Town 

Michael Newman: Blackbirds

Wendy Webb: DESCORT Poetry Form 

Felix Sefton: Voices 

David Norris-Kay: Beyond Realms of Thought 

Bernard Lazenbury: An Eye For an Eye 

Letters 

News 

Phil Wilson: Wordsmithing 

Wendy Webb: ‘The First, The Only One’ by John William Haynes, 1859 

Jenny Brading-Palmer: The Staircase Waltz 

Susannah White: Diana Sperling ‘The Jane Austen of Art’ 

Sue Hassett: The Ruin 

Peter Davies: Drabble 

Anne Brown: Stardust 

David Norris-Kay: Music 

Nicky Wheeliker: Mixed Messages 

Phil Knight: Carrying the Banner For Labour 

Brian Webster: Midnight Walk 

Bernard Lazenbury: Drabble 

Roy Hewetson: Divorce 

Sue Hassett: In the Dark

Sue Hassett: Reflections on Time 

Phil Wilson: Batty Books