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Writers who have not yet been published and those who are well experienced are equally welcome to send in poetry for consideration. Themes, subjects and styles are left up to the individual writer. The only rule is that your poem should not have been published or accepted for publication elsewhere.
Though submissions from anyone are welcome, we are particularly
interested
in submissions from women. As women ourselves we feel we want to
encourage
women to write in their own style about the issues that interest them
and
to offer them a realistic chance of publication. In addition we have
found
women to be consistently under represented in many of the existing
poetry
magazines and want to provide a space where they can see their work in
print.
Subscriptions for Dogs |
Rain Dog will come out of her kennel twice annually to serve
a little poetry and bark (creatively). A subscription costs £6.00
for the year. Single issues cost £3.50.
Please make cheques payable to Panshine Press and send to PO
Box 68, Manchester, M19 2XD. Click here
for a form to print out.
Submissions to the Dog |
Rain Dog welcomes submissions from anyone, though obviously she can't promise to publish everything she recieves. She's an avid reader though. She can't pay anyone at the moment but contributors will receive a free copy of the magazine.
Also, the writer of the best poem, as selected by the readers, will receive a book token, be invited to contribute to the following issue and can expect adulation from the masses generally. Those voted second and third will also receive book tokens.
Currently prizes are £20, £15 and £10 for the top three poems.
Have a look at our guidelines
and then send your poems to the address above with an SAE.
Alternatively
email your submission to me at rd_poetry@yahoo.com
and I'll see it reaches RD's friendly paws next time I'm down
the
kennel.
The Technicalities of being a Rain Dog |
Rain Dog is published by Panshine Press. It has 48
pages,
most of these devoted to original poetry. It also contains reviews of
recent
poetry / prose publications (2-4 pages). The magazine is A5 sized and
emerges
on March 8th and September 8th annually. Rain Dog gratefully
receives
the support of North West Arts Board.
The Keepers of the Flames |
We thought it might be helpful for people hoping to submit poetry to
Rain
Dog to know what kind of poetry we like reading here in the lair.
There
are two editors on Rain Dog, one is Jan Whalen and she
thinks....
| 'I like poems in all forms, though free verse is usually what my favourite stuff comes in. I like poetry which is startling and thoughtful and makes unexpected connections. Poetry which is not cynical and full of itself, but is intelligent and ultimately compassionate (rather like the Rain Dog herself now I think about it). I like funny poems but not those where wit is the only ingredient. I like poems by: Dorothy Porter, Gary Snyder, Paul Durcan, Mary Dorcey, Pat Boran, Paula Meehan, Maura Dooley, Michael Longley, Joan Johnston. I've also recently found god (Ian McMillan). Songwriters are a great influence on me too: Martin Sexton, Jimmy McCarthy, Luka Bloom, Dick Gaughan, it all goes into the big dog's dinner in the end........' |
The other editor is Suzanne Batty and she says....
| 'I like poetry written with passion and daring. I like work that takes risks with itself. I'm drawn to strong images and emotions although witty and iroinc poems can appeal to me as well. I read mostly contemporary poetry although I have a passion for, amongst others, Sylvia Plath and Spanish-speaking poets Federico Garcia Lorca and Pablo Neruda. My favourite contempoary writers include Medbh McGuckian, Selima Hill (poem), Alice Oswald, Les Murray, Kathleen Jamie, and in the field of songwriters, Elvis Costello.' |
Further more .....in a discussion about the poets we like, we both mentioned Jackie Kay, Carol Anne Duffy and Paul Durcan, oh and loads of other writers.
So if you think your writing would be of interest to us, please
let
us see it.
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