The latest issue of the on-line literary magazine The Pedestal Magazine features fine reviews of Age of the Demon Tools by Mark Spitzer and Eye-sensing by David Jaffen. Check the magazine and the reviews out at www.thepedestalmagazine.com. Tom Bradley’s Even the Dog Won’t Touch Me will be reviewed in the next issue.

Poetrywivenhoe. Wivenbooks, 2008. An anthology of poems from the Wivenhoe Poetry Competition selected by Joan Taylor, Pam Job, Peter Kennedy and Mike Harwood. 6 pounds. For more information contact Mike Harwood at mike.j.harwood[at]btinet.com.

My family and I spent a wonderful two days at Wivenhoe, near Colchester, as guests of the Creative Writing Department, the University of Essex. Wivenhoe is a beautiful little town situated on a river in Boudicca country.

Words Count. Mike Harwood. A collection of poems by the poet laureate of the Black Buoy Inn, Wivvenhoe. For more information contact Mike at the above e-address. Jesse