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In this magazine
ISSUE 6
Summer/Autumn 2000
Featuring… SELIMA HILL ◊ CANDIA MCWILLIAM ◊ GILLIAN ALLNUTT ◊ LESLEY GLAISTER ◊ JENNI MURRAY
Special
AGENDA: Poetry
The problem with poetry
Poetry makes up only two per cent of the book market, but it gets fifty per cent of the public subsidy available to literature. Debbie Taylor asks why so few people buy contemporary poetry.
INTERVIEW
Poet Selima Hill talks to Debbie Taylor
FEATURES
Pressing on
Mel Ashby and Jo Littler explore the role of the feminist presses in today’s ‘post-feminist’ world
Written in the stars
Is your sun rising in Jupiter? Is your moon setting in Saturn? Astrologer Bee Smith on how the celestial bodies can affect your writing success.
Best buddies
Every wished you had personal trainer - for your writing? A guide for getting the help you need, by Jennifer Bryce and Sheila Bolsover
Dolly girls
Research suggests that girls would rather be nurses than writers. Maggie Black asks why.
MIND AND BODY: Ideas from the id
An introduction to the rules governing unconscious thought by Freudian psychoanalyst Rosine Perelberg
Regulars
NEW WRITING: FIRE
Poetry and prose selected by Candia McWilliam
POETIC FORMS
Linda France's tutorial on poetic forms:
Rhyming couplets with a specially-commissioned example by Gillian Allnutt
BEDSIDE TABLE
What Jenni Murray likes to read
Plus…
STARTERS
Nuts & Bolts, First Person Singular, Getting Started in…, The Slush Pile
CREATIVITY
The Blank Page - workshop with Margaret Wilkinson
Word Surgeon with Dr Ingrid K
BOOKS
Literary analysis, Small Press Fiction, Best Ever Books by Women, Publishers' List profile, Mslexia book reviews
DIRECTORY
Everything a writer needs to know: competitions, submissions requests, grants, courses, events, contacts, venues
THE Mslexia ARCHIVE
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Features on the website
BOOKS
What to read, what not to read: Mslexia readers & reviewers give their verdict on the latest books, plus our celebrity guest reveals what's on her Bedside Table. Explore Books
THE Mslexia INTERVIEW
We find out what makes a successful author tick in this in-depth one-to-one on the highs and lows of writing and getting published. Read from the current Mslexia Interview
NEW WRITING
Sample the best freshly-picked writing as chosen by our guest author and read her essay; plus - we announce the new submission theme. Go to New Writing
