British poet Adrian Manning on Outside the cave

English poet and publisher Adrian Manning writes on Facebook: 'Been reading this selected poems book by Gary Cummiskey again. I have to say it is a collection of amazing poems and some of the finest poems I have read in a while.'

Outside the cave in Leicester

Well, the new year is certainly starting with some good news --  Outside the cave and Thunder on the highway have now reached poet and publisher Adrian Manning in Leicester, England! It's great news that outgoing international mail is finally reaching its destination - without needing the expensive services of couriers! Now I am just hoping that incoming internal mail will start coming through.

The Odd Magazine #20 is out!

Great news - a stunning issue of The Odd Magazine has landed in cyberspace!

Do have a wonderful time going through this stellar issue, curated in a time when the world needs to fight the odds, more than ever before:

Odd Poetry: Adrian Manning, Arja Salafranca, Brian Rihlmann and Wayn F.Burke

Odd Shorts: Charlei Swailes, Gary Cummiskey, Kari Gillespie, Robert Keith and Yrik-Max Valentonis

Odd Art: Collaborations: Don Yorty-Md Akram, Jan Theuninck-Herman Van Rompuy, Margarita Serafimova-Milen Neykov , Neeti Banerji (Text and Art)

Odd Video: ‘Round Around’ – a film by Yogi Rajput

Odd Interview of Benoit Delaune by Gary Cummiskey (in English and French)

The latest issue of Graffti

I have five short poems in this recent issue of Graffiti, published in Kolkata, India, by poet Subhankar Das.

Graffiti is a bilingual poetry journal. Other poets in the English section are Adrian Manning, Henrick Aeshna, Jayeeta Bhattacharya, Jay Passer, John Dorsey, Linda King and Neeli Cherkovski.

In Naked Field: a chapbook of poems by Gary Cummiskey

The eagle has landed ... my copies of my latest chapbook, In Naked Field, published by Concrete Meat Press in Leicester, England. Thanks to publisher Adrian Manning and to French poet and collagist Bruno Sourdin, who supplied the cover art.

To order contact Adrian Manning at adrianmanning@yahoo.co.uk.

Dye Hard Interview: Adrian Manning: A poetic microcosm

Adrian Manning is an English poet and micro-publisher. He has had a number of chapbooks published, including Wretched Songs

For Out of Tune Musicians, Down At The Laundromat, Bring Down The Sun(with Henry Denander), These Days, Days Like This (with John Dorsey) and 13 Poems from the Edge of Extinction. His poems have been published around the world and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He is the founder of Concrete Meat Press, a micro-press that publishes poetry broadsides and chapbooks.

He lives in Leicester, England.

DH: How and when did you start writing poetry? I am curious about the contemporary poetry scene in England. I regard most English poetry as conservative. Is there a strong ‘alternative’ poetry/literary culture there? 

AM: I started writing when I was a teenager, about 17 or 18. I had a notebook in which I used to record my thoughts about my confused worldview at the time. It was sort of like a diary but the thoughts took on a poetic prose form...Read more.