Riggwelter #31

Welcome to the thirty-first issue! Riggwelter keeps rolling on. This issue contains work by: Laura Amsel, Helen Anderson, Paul atten Ash, Ian Badcoe, Julia Biggs, Tony Cartlidge, Carys Crossen, Silas Curtis, Emilija L. Ducks, Laurie Eaves, Mike Farren, Ophelia Gilman, Debbie Hudson, Katie Hughbanks, Tim Kiely, Rebecca Klassen, Sarah Leavesley, Abby Morrice, Graham Mort, Jay Orlando, Lee Potts, En Ransome, Demi Smith, Yuan Changming and Caroline Zhang, and is edited by Jonathan Kinsman.

Review: Sikiliza by Bella Cox

There is a popular perception of modern younger poets (and more generally of modern younger people) that we are a self-obsessed bunch. This is a perception especially strongly held, I find, towards those poets whose work is frequently performed, or which blends generically with theatre or music, the idea being that ‘spoken word’ is a medium that deals more in earnest discursiveness and self-assertion than in the (impliedly) subtler and more mature world of ‘page’ poetry.