The Wolf 13, October 2006: poems, reviews, interview and launch audio
Issue 13 of The Wolf is dated October 2006. Its page lists an audio recording of the issue launch, 51 minutes 28 seconds long, made on 9 October 2006 at the Poetry Society with James Byrne as host. Seven writers read: Niall McDevitt, Mark Leech and Ahren Warner, together with Anne Rouse, Robert Stein, Linda Black and Fiona Curran.
Five poems are named: The Tumulus Mutters by Mark Leech, Hearing the Heart by Sally Read, The Octagonal Tower by Sandeep Parmar, Birmingham by Niall McDevitt and Vanishing by Richard Marggraf Turley. The review list covers Penelope Shuttle's Redgrove's Wife from Bloodaxe, plus Tanure Ojaide's Delta Blues & Other Songs (Kraft Books), Okot p'Bitek's The Defence of Lawino (Fountain Publishing) and Kofi Anyidoho's PraiseSong for TheLand (Sub-Saharan Publishing).
The issue summary names an interview with August Kleinzahler and an essay by Niall McDevitt, Contra Avante-Garde, and puts the number of new poems at over thirty. Images came from Photodebut, described as a non-profit organisation.
Poems in this selection
- The Tumulus Mutters
- Hearing the Heart
- The Octagonal Tower
- Birmingham
- Vanishing