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Poetry - Fiction - Arts - Criticism - Culture

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(Fra Angelico. Max Beckmann. Walt Disney. Andy Goldsworthy. Mark Rothko. Rainer Maria Rilke. The Gulf War)

ï Each year, Crescent Moon is publishing Passion magazine, four collections of poetry, fiction, reviews, and essays on fine art, cinema, music, politics, philosophy, the media, feminism and many kinds of criticism drawn from around the world.
ï Many writers are being published for the first time here, while others are established writers, who are featured in publications throughout the world.
ï Well-known poets and artists such as Andrea Dworkin, Richard Long, V.S. Naipaul, Peter Redgrove, D.J. Enright, Penelope Shuttle, Colin Wilson, Ronald Blythe, Edwin Mullins, Geoffrey Ashe, Alan Bold and Jeremy Reed are featured.
ï The work ranges from the passionate, erotic and spiritual, to the humorous, polemical and incisive, but it is always entertaining.

Passion is totally committed to being full of emotion. (Krax magazine)
I very much enjoyed Passion, there is a lot of good work in there. (Understanding magazine)

POETRY FROM PASSION MAGAZINE

Silently you trace out

the big white freak kiss of sun

X-ed on my tanned back,

then touch me lower, where the clouds

of me are all dew and shock.

Let us practise our nuptial arts.

Let us embrace and if when you come into me

our sighing cannot be heard

for the sweet growl of thunder overhead,

then let the sky speak for us,

conversing in both fire and rain.

Penelope Shuttle, from 'Nuptial Arts'

A ladder telescopes into the sky,

a pear-shaped ruby balanced on the top.

I notate Michaux's drawings. Jane gets thin

by thinking herself vertically

into the scarlet anemone's stem,

the one that visibly draws on water

to combat entropy. All the way up.

The window opposite's a cat's square eye,

a rectangular buttercup.

It stays there half the night. I've seen the man

collect and recollect a glass

attempting to kill consciousness, too high

to enter sleep by a white door

and float bareback above a violet fish

so fluent it is water.

Jeremy Reed, from 'Space Cake'

PASSION MAGAZINE

In previous issues of Passion magazine:

Book and arts reviews include:

King Lear at Stratford; Helene Cixous; Rilke; alchemy; Aldous Huxley; youth culture; Alison Wilding; Luce Irigaray; Goddesses; children's books; astronomy; menstruation and dreaming; St Ives and Cornish art; Rimbaud; Holderlin; painting and poetry; Ted Hughes; cinema, radio and television; French poets; Robert Graves; pop music: P.J. Harvey; Lush; Dead Can Dance; Banco de Gaia; Khalifa Ould Eide & Dimi Mint Abba; Suede; Sabres of Paradise; lesbian philosophy; Andrei Tarkovsky; John Cowper Powys; children's books: sculpture; feminism and gender studies: Maggie Humm; Elizabeth Grosz; Susan Suleiman; Russ; erotic fiction; new queer theory: Camille Paglia; lesbian eroticism; Differences; fetishism; new art books: Mary Miss; Egon Schiele; Barbara Hepworth; Richard Diebenkorn; Brice Marden; Frank Stella; alchemy; colour; landscape; censorship; French cinema; Michelangelo Antonioni; Peter Greenaway; Bernardo Bertolucci; new literature books: D.H. Lawrence; Lawrence Durrell; Michael Hamburger; children's books: whales; nature; art; science; puzzles; history; black holes; world atlas; Roald Dahl; Tony Ross; Dr Seuss; Richard Scarry; new books on Nietzsche; Sir Thomas Browne; music books: The Beatles; the Sex Pistols; New Order; The Cure; The Smiths; ambient; punk; rave culture; Disney's Lion King; new erotica; the return of Thomas Hardy; Dante; Arthurian romance; Joseph Cornell; John Ford's The Broken Heart at Stratford; Shakespeare; drugs; Petrus Christus; pop music and fandom; sensuous geography; journals & magazines.

Poems include:

Jeremy Reed's 'Space Cake' and 'Fruit Dish'
D.J. Enright's 'A Register of Diverse Deaths'
Penelope Shuttle's 'Riverside' and 'Wolf'
Peter Redgrove's 'Electrical Sisters'
Arseniy Tarkovsky's "Under the heart of the grass" and 'Ode'
Michael Kelly's translations of Catullus and Villon
D.H. Lawrence's 'Bavarian Gentians'
Lynda Silva's 'Woolworth's, Stuckey's and Tastee Freeze'
Peter Finch's 'Why Does This Work?'
Edwin Mullins's 'Sahara Children';
Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'Ode to the West Wind'
Ronald Blyth's 'One Afternoon'
Hilary Bergen's 'To the Quiet Boy in My French Class'
Rupert Loydell's 'Stone Angels'
Wendy Morgan's 'Pink Butterfly Barrettes'
Melanie Votaw's 'Lovers'
Maureen Sherbondy's "She was so wild"
Wendy Morgan's 'Bagels in the Morning'
Thomas Hardy's 'Wessex Heights' and 'The Sign-Seeker'
John Keats's 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'

Essays include:

Kelly Ives on sexuality, art and pornography
Andrew Jary: "To Hell and Back Again: Arthur Rimbaud"
John Madden on "The Lipstick Boy: Jeremy Reed"
William Malpas on Richard Long
James Pearson: "Sixties Stripes: The Paintings of Frank Stella"
Stuart Morris on the art of Max Beckmann
Miriam Chalk's "Wild West Poet: Percy Bysshe Shelley"
Louise Cooper: ""Dance, dance, dance to the radio": Joy Division and New Order"
A.H. Ninham: "Love & Religion in John Donne's Poetry"
B.D. Barnacle on "Alexandria Revisited: The Alexandria of Lawrence Durrell, C.P. Cavafy, Edmund Keeley and Others"
D. Simon Eade: "Mors Osculis: Symbolism and Decadence"
Jeremy Robinson on Thomas Hardy and Luce Irigaray
Joanna Finn-Kelcey: "Lady Chatterley's Lovers: Eric Gill and D.H. Lawrence"
Margaret Elvy: "Women as 'Mere Chattels': Marty and Grace in The Woodlanders""

(Richard Long)

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Passion is a new journal, launched in February 1994. Each issue will appear on 1 February, 1 May, 1 August and 1 November. Subscriptions are £13.00, or £3.50 for one copy.

Please contribute! We aim to publish reviews on many subjects, including cinema, literature, music, concerts, books, theatre. We will feature essays on many subjects, including politics, psychology, science, media, arts, literature, philosophy and feminism. Articles on ideas or speculations are welcome. We will also print short fiction.
Passion is looking for thought-provoking, passionate, incisive, polemical, ironic, lyrical and hilarious work. Generally, we prefer non-rhyming poetry. No rubbish, trivia, party politics, sport, hobbies, etc, please.
Well-known poets and artists such as Andrea Dworkin, Richard Long, V.S. Naipaul, Peter Redgrove, D.J. Enright, Penelope Shuttle, Colin Wilson, Ronald Blythe, Edwin Mullins, Geoffrey Ashe, Alan Bold and Jeremy Reed are featured in the first issues.
If you have an article or essay or poem that hasn't yet found a home, do send it. If you know of other people who would be interested in contributing or subscribing, do tell them, or send us their names and addresses.
If you have a WP or computer, please set your manuscript in 10pt Times or an equivalent, good-looking, serifed typeface, A5-size (text in an area 11 x 17cm maximum).
Please enclose an S.A.E. Do not send U.S. stamps: we can't use them to mail from the U.K.
Please use IRCs (International Reply Coupons).
Please ensure your full name and return address is enclosed, and that you write in block capitals.
Please DO NOT send whole manuscripts: up to 6 poems, or two sample chapters plus a synopsis or treatment, is sufficient.
We aim to reply to submissions within three months. Material will not be returned unless specifically requested, and accompanied with an S.A.E.
You will receive a complimentary copy.
And please subscribe!

Submissions to J. Robinson, Editor, Passion at
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PUBLICATION DETAILS

Launch: Passion was launched in February 1994.
Published: Passion appears on 1 February, 1 May, 1 August and 1 November.
Readership: anyone interested in literature and the arts; poets and writers; librarians.
Subscriptions, UK: £2.50 each. Subscription £10.00 (institutions £15.00) inc. p & p.
Subscription, US and foreign rates: $4.00 each. $17.00, institutions $25.00 (inc. p & p).
Editor: Jeremy Robinson.
Reviews: John Madden.

ISSN 1352-3473.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication data available.

Printed in Great Britain.

Average no. of pages per issue: 50.

(Egon Schiele, Lovers, 1917)

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PAGAN AMERICA

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Passionate poetry from North America

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Crescent Moon is publishing two collections of poetry each year drawn from all over North America, the Pagan America series. Many poets are being published for the first time, while others are established poets, who are featured in magazines and anthologies throughout the US, and who give poetry readings.
The poetry is passionate, erotic, religious, humorous, manic and always entertaining. There are many surprises in these anthologies, which read as an alternative 'state of the nation' to that put out by the government and the media. The Pagan America books record the secret life of America.
One collection a year features women's love poetry, the other is a mixture.

Pagan America is published in March and September. ISSN 1354-1056

POETRY FROM PAGAN AMERICA

I breathe clear skies Arms stretch out

at full stride My open chest pours sky

this side of the hemlock hedge Every current I ride

Running tendril twine I return my body fire

around my long fingers, air, water, earth

growing longer This womb of each wonder

Bound in gleaming leaves I touch touches me

roots seize my feet I'm always coming home

pulling me into earth

Janice Bishop, 'Home'

You fly out of me

Like a bullet out of a heated gun.

And, as if from a wound,

Inflicted in the holy strife,

Your sacred water spurts out

In its great universal run.

And I bathe in it,

And get recharged with life

For many, many more

Joyous years to come

Hanna Rubenstein, from 'Eternal Spring'

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Please send me issue/s

You can e-mail, telephone or post your details to us.

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Each book is £4.99 or $9.00. Subscriptions per year are £10.00 or $17.00 (institutions £15.00 or $25.00) Prices include postage and packing. Earlier collections are always available. If you know of other people who might be interested in Pagan America, please send us their names and addresses.

Our magazines and books are available direct from Crescent Moon, or from State Mutual Book and Periodical Service in New York (17th Floor, 521 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10175-0105, USA). (Please make cheques payable to Crescent Moon in GB pounds sterling, US dollars, Eurocheques, POs or International Money Orders).

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Please contribute!
Pagan America is looking for passionate, lyrical, original work. Generally, we prefer non-rhyming poetry. We consider short fiction.
If you have a WP or computer, please set your manuscript in 10pt Times or an equivalent, good-looking, serifed typeface, A5-size (text in an area 11 x 17cm maximum).
Please enclose an S.A.E. Do not send U.S. stamps: we can't use them to mail from the U.K.
Please IRCs (International Reply Coupons).
Please ensure your full name and return address is enclosed, and that you write in block capitals.
Please DO NOT send whole manuscripts: up to 6 poems, or two sample chapters plus a synopsis or treatment, is sufficient.
We aim to reply to submissions within three months. Material will not be returned unless specifically requested, and accompanied with an S.A.E.
You will receive a complimentary copy.
And please subscribe!

Submissions to J. Robinson, Editor, Pagan America
at
CRESCENT MOON PUBLISHING
P.O. Box 393, Maidstone, Kent, ME14 5XU, U.K.
tel: 01622-729593 (UK)
01144-1622-729593 (US)
0044-1622-729593 (Europe)

E-MAIL AND INTERNET
cresmopub@yahoo.co.uk
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LIST OF VOLUMES

vol. 1: Pagan America: An Anthology of New American Poetry (ISBN 1-871846-31-5)

vol. 2: Love in America: An Anthology of Women's Love Poetry (ISBN 1-871846-51-X)

vol. 3: Mythic America: An Anthology of New American Poetry (ISBN 1-871846-96-X)

vol. 4: Sex in America: An Anthology of Women's Love Poetry (ISBN 1-871846-37-4)

vol. 5: Religious America: An Anthology of New American Poetry (ISBN 1-871846-82-X)

vol. 6: Desire in America: An Anthology of Women's Love Poetry (ISBN 1-871846-77-3)

vol 7: Mystical America: An Anthology of New American Poetry (ISBN 1-871846-29-3)

vol. 8: Romance in America: An Anthology of Women's Love Poetry (ISBN 1-871846-34-X)

vol 9: Holy America: An Anthology of New American Poetry (ISBN 1-871846-39-0)

vol. 10: Lust in America: An Anthology of Women's Love Poetry (ISBN 1-871846-44-7)

vol. 11: Sacred America: An Anthology of New American Poetry (ISBN 1-871846-49-8)

These earlier collections of Pagan America are currently available. Each book is £4.99 or $9.00. Subscriptions per year are £10.00 or $17.00 (institutions £15.00 or $25.00) Prices include postage and packing.

PAGAN AMERICA

NEW EDITIONS OF NEW POETRY FROM AMERICA