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HappenStance

A Poetry Chapbook Imprint

 

His Headmaster once told him he would end up playing the fiddle on street corners. Ian King’s comment? “Best career advice I ever had.”

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 Helena Nelson

Sphinx 6

 

In Sphinx 6: 

  • Main feature on the story of Sally Evans and Ian King, Diehard Publishers.

  • Nicholas Murray of Rack Press interviews himself.

  • Alan Tarling remembers Poet&Printer.

  • Tyne and Esk Writers doing it for themselves.

  • John Hardman on Fras and Julie Johnstone on Essence Press.

  • Michael K Gause on the pain and pleasure of publishing and being published, on paper and online.

  • Reviews, Savage Chickens and poems by Sally Evans and Ian King.

You can order Sphinx through our online shop, and pay either online or by post.

Website reviews to accompany publication of Sphinx Issue 6:

  • Some Poems by Ernest Dowson, Selected with a Foreword by Robert Nye

  • jimmy shand the motorcycle diaries, by Ken Sutherland

  • Smaa Spangs, Deutsch to Doric, by Mary Johnston

  • Alice, by Jane Weir

  • Transfer, by Alan King

  • Pillars of Salt, by Judy Brown

  • Simple Words, by Stephen Warrillow

  • The Theory of Everything, by James Wood

  • First Blood, by Patricia Ace

  • Some Histories of the Sheffield Flood 1864, Rob Hindle

  • Waiting to Burn, Angela Cleland

  • Slim Volume II, Irene Evans

  • unconcerned but not indifferent, the life of Man Ray, by Derek Adams