New outlet for light verse

If you enjoy light verse visit Lighten Up Online, a new quarterly webzine where we aim to publish the best of a genre which does not often seem to get the coverage it deserves. 

The first Issue is at   www.lightenup-online.co.uk  

Submissions are invited for future issues.

RUBBING THE LAMP is now available as an ideal stocking-filler for people with literate legs. If you've already opened all your Christmas presents, don't worry - Santa's Little Helpers have agreed to work on into the New Year in order to make Martin Parker's latest publication available to people of extra special taste and discernment. 

This follow up to PICK 'N' MIX includes a variety of  takes on love, life and disappointment, together with an extract from the Secret Diary Of Old Nokomis, the story of a schoolgirl heroine even more Brazil than Angela, a boy’s need to retrieve his mackintosh from beneath a sleeping girl, and a lover’s plea for cornflakes.

PICK 'N' MIX REVIEWED

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