Sheila Chapman writes:
The Flux was its usual
self on Saturday night: skewiff, tilted, slanted and full of poets. We greeted each
other with immortal lines like, ‘nice to see you’ and ‘god it’s been a long
time’, sipped/glugged our drinks, nibbled nuts and partook of divine cheese and
pickle sandwiches.
The poetry and
readings were divine too with ten artists taking to the floor to celebrate the
launch of Endymion by Flux Gallery Press. Endymion is an Arts and Poetry
magazine which is packed with poems, reflections, critique and illustrations.
This first edition focuses on romance, not just the romance of love but romance
in its broadest sense.
As the Foreword to the magazine says:
‘In its original
historical context the word romantic encapsulated a richly nuanced set of
meanings ranging from the revolutionary to the notion of the sublime. Above
all, it stood for the complex of emotional and psychological responses that
defined a new conception of humanity characterised by a heightened sense of
individualism'.
Each of the people who
read last night had contributed to the magazine and they brought it to life
before us. Their readings reflected its wonderful variety taking us through a
range of emotions as well as perceptive observations, inspired language,
evocative imagery and great good humour.
Iakovus Brown, Dave
Cooke, Cathy Galvin, Lisa Geddes, Tony F Griffin, Dougla Houston, Linda Marshall, Ian Parks, Ian Pople, Pam
Scobie, and Angela Topping were
the readers.
Des the Miner played
their hearts out and we talked, laughed and listened our way through the
evening. As an audience member said:
‘Superb. Convivial,
intelligent, wonderful atmosphere’.
Endymion can be bought
on Amazon, and Kindle is coming soon, subject to the resolution of some
software problems!
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