Poetry and "Literary" Magazines.

There's an article by Gary Dexter in this week's Spectator (2 April, p 18) about his unusual way of making a living, earning about £12 an hour, by offering  to recite by heart to passers-by a piece of poetry selected by them. He has a repertoire of about 150  poems. He decided which to memorise by asking people what their favourite poem was. Any poem mentioned three times would get on to his list. The Spectator has a good book review section, and also runs a weekly literary competition. This all set me thinking how we could each extend our reading by circulating magazines we have fnished with. If anyone else has any interest in this idea, please send me an e-mail* saying which magazines you can contribute for circulation, and which you would be interested in reading. To kick off, I subscribe to the Spectator and The Oldie, which also has good reviews and a literary competition, (in which our very own Gillian Southgate has had some success). I used to see Jonty Driver's old New York Review of Books copies, that often had very interesting articles of general interest in the area of politics, international relations, history, economics and science, as well as the arts, usually in the form of long reviews of a book or group of books. I now get the NYRB on line, to read on my iPad, so don't have a paper copy to contribute. I'd be interested in seeing The London Review of Books, The New Statesman, and other publications of this sort. Get in touch if you are interested. The Winchelsea Gardeners already ciculate  a Gardening magazine.

* lyoulten@aol.com