[Jerome Betts]

5June 2025 sees LUPO hitting its 70th issue with seventeen Spherians treading its boards, that is to say Melissa Balmain Jerome Betts, Terese Coe, Max Gutmann, Susan McLean, Chris O’ Carroll, Martin Parker, Alex Steelsmith and Gail White,
accompanied by new members Marshall Begel, Bruce Bennett, Dan Campion, Janice Canerdy, Daniel Galef, Julia Griffin, Steven Kent and Bruce McGuffin.

Among their subjects are New York’s Underground, the perils of unwashed fruit, a dog chaperone, a museum disaster, spelling, the trials of summer, an Australian leech, urban foxes, cuckoos, sushi, the climate crisis and much else besides, as well as the varied offerings of non-spherical and new contributors.

https://www.lightenup-online.co.uk/

[Melissa Balmain]

The perfect antidote to post-poetry-conference, back-to-reality letdown! Many thanks, as always, Jerome, for assembling so much delightful work and for including some of mine.