I always thought it was called "the North" because it is based in Yorkshire. I used to subscribe and I see that the copies I have each has a different quote. One has
"Bracing myself as the earth rolls / I lean against the North"
http://www.poetrycircle.com/index.php?topic=5939.0;all
and
It isn't just grass that's growing / But flowers supposedly rare inland in the North" - Stanley Cook, "An East End"
I can't find a reference to that poem, but I did find one to Stanley Cook
http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/ma...rd.asp?id=2315
So I guess, Rory, that their clever gimmick is to quote, on the title page, a bit of some poem where the north is mentioned, and capitalizing it, just in case some one doesn't get the connexion. Which is admirable and elucidating.
It is a fine magazine and worth re-reading these many years later. So I will take these two copies downstairs for tomorrow's breakfast cuppa. Thanks for mentioning it.
There is also a print journal called "If", (If Poetry Journal) and I assumed for obvious reasons, that it was a UK publication, but investigating now, I think it is US-based.
http://ifpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/...rint%20journal
It's a big ol' poetry world out there.