In Sphinx 4: 

• David Tipton’s remarkable enterprises: Rivelin and Redbeck Presses

• an interview with Doug W Gray of Aberdeen’s Koo Press

• some background from Michael Laskey on Smiths Knoll ‘mentoring scheme’

Plus:

·       new presses – Perdika and White Leaf

·       Hilary Menos and Matt Merritt write about the difference a chapbook publication can make

“And the pamphlets, when they came, were little orange darlings, their smooth glossy covers spilling out of the brown paper package, smelling of newness and promise, and with my name on the front. Bliss!” (Hilary Menos)

Website reviews to accompany publication of Sphinx Issue 4:

• Liz Cashdan, The Same Country, Five Leaves 2006

• Ken Champion, Cameo Poly, tall-lighthouse 2004

• Gill McEvoy, Uncertain Days, HappenStance 2006

• Simon Robson, Moleskin Man, Grosvenor Road Books 2006

• Caroline Ackroyd, Toad Lichen, Littoral Press 2006

• Jessica Harman, My Journey as an Unharmonious Being, Flarestack, 2006

• Basil Du Toit, 24 Fragments from a Love Affair, Blue Touchpaper Press, 2006

• Ciara MacLaverty, Seats for Landing, Dreadful Night Press 2005

• Sheena Williamson, Nude; Suit; Voice, Blue Touchpaper Press, 2006 The review of these three poetry chapbooks has been withdrawn at the request of the author who is in process of re-editing all her poems into a prose format.

• Pam Thompson, Show Date and Time, Smith/Doorstop Books, 2006

• Cathy Grindrod, Still Breathing, Five Leaves, 2006

• John West, Walking Amongst Women, Picaro Press 2006

• Into Glasgow: Translations and Responses, Mariscat Press, 2006

• Paul Batchelor, To Photograph a Snow Crystal, Smith/Doorstop Books, 2006

• George Philp, Confessions of an Occasional Poet, Akros Publications, 2006

• Richard Wink, Stress, The Blind Press, 2006

• Lesley Harrison, Sea Stories, Pinkfoot Press 2005

• Pauline Rowe, Playing Out Time, Driftwood Publications, 2005

• Dorothy Lawrenson, Under the Threshold, Perjink Press, 2005

• Foyle Young Poets of the Year 2005, When the Thunder Woke Me, The Poetry Society, 2006

• Anna Davies, Wind Tied Door, Modwena Pamphlets, 2006

• Mary Michaels, Assassins, Sea Cow, 2006

• Cath Nichols, Tales of Boy Nancy, Driftwood Publications, 2005

• Ed Reiss, Now and Then, Smith/Doorstop, 2006

• Andy Murray, Bone Notes, andywhistle@yahoo.co.uk, 2005

• George Wallace, when i was dead, Flarestack, 2006