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Unread 01-02-2020, 10:35 AM
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Default Potcake Chapbook #6, 'Wordplayful', is now out

'Wordplayful' is the 6th Potcake Chapbook from Sampson Low in the UK, featuring international formal poets. This one is a little different from the earlier ones in the series: puns and puzzles, poems that can be read vertically or in reverse, wordplay in a variety of forms... but, yes, all formal poems, stuffed full of rhyme, rhythm and rich language.

Returning Potcake poets are Marcus Bales, John Beaton, Ed Conti, Daniel Galef, Chris O'Carroll, George Simmers, Alicia Stallings, Rob Stuart and myself; newcomers are Sam Gwynn, Bob McKenty, the unlikely Noam D. Plum and the elusive Dervla Ramaswamy. Mini-bios and photos for most of them are on the Potcake Poets page.
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Default Alban Low update

Alban Low has again provided all the art work, but he will now be taking a five or six month break to work on other things, especially the annual Art of Caring exhibition which opens in St George's Hospital in Tooting in London in May, and moves to St Pancras Hospital in July - or at least it did in 2019. But Alban promises to re-engage with us in the early summer, by which time we may have more idea of what further Potcake Chapbook themes to pursue.

And it all depends on what poetry I run across, online, in books, or in emails. Must be formal, should be previously published, needs to be in the spirit of the other Potcake chapbooks.
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'Wordplayful' is very good - the best Potcake yet.

Sam Gwynn's backwards villanelle, Daniel Galef's alphabet of crossword clues and Chris O'Carroll's sonnet of homonyms and homophones give real delight, but the star turn is Rob Stuart's 'The Colour of her Riah', a translation of Housman' 'The Colour of His Hair' into the gay slang, Polari.
I'm very fond of the original poem, and, amazingly for a pastiche, this adds another level to it.
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Congratulations to all.

These little books are delightful, Robin.
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Congratulations! Keep 'em coming.
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I love these books.
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