STRIDE
www.stridemagazine.co.uk

This site is the archive of Stride magazine for 1999-2015


As of May 2016 Stride magazine is published at http://stridemagazine.blogspot.co.uk/




COPYRIGHT
The copyright of everything published here remains the author's.



RUPERT LOYDELL is the author and editor of many books. You can read about his Shearsman titles here and his Knives Forks and Spoons titles here.

Current Articles

GEMSTONES & SNOWDROPS
Angela Topping reviews Edwin Stockdale

NEVER BORING
Martin Stannard and British Poetry

A POETRY BOOM AND BEYOND
Steve Spence is more confused than before

WORDS AND WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE
Mike Ferguson and Rupert Loydell swim

PURE ACT: THE UNCOMMON LIFE OF ROBERT LAX
reviewed by David Miller

MASH UP: THE BIRTH OF MODERN CULTURE
Rupert Loydell does the monster mash

WRITING BACK
Sarah Cave on Sarah James on Emma Bovary

DAVID GASCOYNE AND SURREALISM
Paul Sutton is a fish

WE APPEAR TO WALK IN AND OUT OF MIRRORS
David Grubb is gradually departing

RADICAL RE-ENVISIONING
Andy Brown on John Kinsella

COMMON GROUND
John Phillips and Ian Seed

DECONARRATIF FESSION
an interview with Daniel Y Harris

h.e/s.he scatology in 315 wor./d sec./tions
Gloria Mindock, Irene Koronas and Daniel Y Harris

NOT ONLY IN THE METAPHOR
Mike Ferguson is being articulated

UNCOMPROMISING

new titles by Sean Bonney,
Paul Hawkins and Rod Mengham


SOMEONE ELSE WAS DRIVING
new poems by Simon Collings

MOOT POINT
Neil Fulwood judges some books
by their covers


B SIDES, BOOTLEGS AND HEARSE STRINGS
Dean Meadowcroft's review round-up

A SHORT HISTORY OF BIRDS

Sue Burge's fluttering eclipse

POEMS FOR THE YOUNG AT HEART
Martin Stannard does not disappoint

WE DIDN'T GO TO THE CINEMA IN THOSE DAYS
Cliff Yates is inside the iceberg

OVER TO THE READER
three new titles from
Knives, Forks & Spoons Press

WHERE TO NEXT?
Anthony Caleshu, John Daniel
and Richard Thomas reviewed


'a mistake at the mortuary'
Rich Ives is embalming clouds

'the splosh got spilled'
Martin Stannard cannot find the words

'scroll sky parts cloudy day
'
Irene Koronas is justified with

'a wing or a bone in mercury'
Charlie Baylis' ruined sheet of notes

AN OPEN INVITATION
Andy Green's Notes are out of order

THE EDITOR'S PICKS 2O15

AS THE DARK DAYS CONTINUE
new poems by Steve Spence

HOME IS WHERE THE HURT IS
Neil Fulwood reviews Merle Bachman,
Tony Curtis and Anthony Caleshu


AT ODDS WITH ANY KIND OF LOGIC
from White Noise 3

IT'S OUR LIVES WE MAKE A MESS OF
more words from John Phillips

ALEATORIC POST-MILLENIAL TECHNO BLIZZARD
A.C. Evans on Daniel Y Harris

FROM THE FACE OF THE COMPASS

new poems by Sarah Cave

TRAVELLING LIGHT
Ian Seed's Fidelities

REPLACED BY IMAGES
David Miller's Spiritual Letters (Series 6)

POSITIONINGS & PASSINGS
Mark Goodwin's broken poem

BLOOD-DRUNK, TONGUE-MASHED
Daniel Y Harris is neglecting the merged and blurred

A FEW DAYS OF BACKGROUND LISTENING
Andrew Taylor finds the way home

RESTRAINED SCEPTICISM
Michael Rosen and Merryn Williams

SOUND AND VISION
Charlie Baylis takes the chromatic pulse

THE ADVERT OF ITSELF
Clark Allison offers Some Notes
on Robert Sheppard's History or Sleep


SUBSETS OF EXPERIENCE
Guy Birchard's Hecatombs

GOOD GRIEF
Max Porter's Grief is the Thing with Feathers

WAKING THEN WAS LIKE DREAMING
new haibun by Mark A. Murphy

UNDERGROUND DREAMS
A.C. Evans gets visual

ALL COLOUR WILL COME TO COLLAPSE
Charlie Baylis is dragged gently to the shore

TAKING ON THE SUBLIME
David Hart on Kim Addonizio's Wild Nights

'NO IDEA WHAT HE'S ON ABOUT...'
Charlie Baylis on Pete Smith

A WORLD AWAY

Jane Routh on Kathleen Jamie

POSSIBLY TELLING
John Mingay writes in triplicate

FREEFALLING
Neil Fulwood on Bethany A. Pope

THE BONES OF THE STORY
James Bell is stuck on the wall

SUFFUSED WITH BLUE
David Miller's Spiritual Letters

FUMBLING, DISTRACTED, DRIFTING
follow Clark Allison's train of thought

from THE SILENCE INSIDE
meet Doctor Doubt

from TIME RHYME

Joel Chace is incandescent

JOHN GIBBENS 1959-2015
the lightness and darkness of living

NOTHING IS LEFT UNDONE
from John Gibbens's 'London Bride'

PRISING OPEN WALLS
Clark Allison on John Wilkinson

A GOOD COMPANION
Alan Halsey on Edmund Hardy

WITHOUT A DAY IN MIND
Simon Perchik's headlights are off

INTO DANGEROUS TERRITORY

A.C. Evans on Nigel Wood's take on John Dee

FOLLOWING THROUGH
Simon Collings on Vahni Capildeo

DIFFERENT ANGLES
Steve Waling on Kelvin Corcoran,
Alan Halsey and Claire Crowther

PRETTY IN PINK
Charlie Baylis on A.K. Blakemore

A QUIET DISCOVERY
poems i.m. Lee Harwood

ANATOMY, ATOMIZED
Noah Ross feels his heart

from Hariot Double

new poems by Gavin Selerie

SOMETHING TO BE RECKONED WITH
Steve Spence on Reading Barry MacSweeney

STRIPE MAN
two new titles about Sean Scully

THE BEAUTIFUL LIBRARIANS
Marc Woodward on Sean O'Brien

IT'S ALL IN THE TITLE

Sarah Hopkins reviews Elizabeth Burns,
Mary O'Donnell and Debbie Walsh

OF ICE AND MEN
Sue Burge makes moondogs dance

HOLD EVERYTHING DEAR
Three letters to the publisher of
Kent Johnson's I Once Met

SHOUTING ONESELF AWAKE
Norman Jope is keen to stay faithful

LINGERING AND LOVING
new titles by Tim Cumming, Antony Owen,
Marc Woodward and Fani Papageorgiou

A CAREER
Luke Kennard's pet project

LOTS OF RISKS
Peter Jaeger and Peter Philpott

LANGUAGE LIVES!
David Hart reviews new titles

IN RESPONSE TO YOUR ADVERT...
An application for Destruction

'footsteps measured in millennia'
Peter Riley's DUE NORTH

THE MIXING OF THE LANGUAGE
Martin Anderson and John Berger

MIST AND METAPHYSICS
Richard Berengarten and Geoffrey O'Brien

ADVERTISMENT
A Kick Up the Arse of Poetic Farce

GOING DEEPER
John Daniel and Jane Spiro

TOY BALLOONS
Andy Brown on Wislawa Szymborska

PANDA DIPLOMACY
new poems by Damian Furniss

A LIFE OF EXTREMES
Ian Seed on William Wantling

MAVERICK VOICES
Poems for the Millennium vol. 5

CORN ON SPEED
All Betts are off for John Mingay

ITSELF

Simon Collings on Rae Armantrout

PAINTING PICTURES
Charlie Baylis reviews Annie Freud

WE ARE NOT OFTEN WHERE WE ARE
David Grubb's Thunder Cracks the Heart

PAMPHLET PANDEMONIUM
recent poetry pamphlets reviewed

THE LIFE OF IMAGES
Charles Simic's selected prose

TIME TO GET GOING
John Ashbery's Breezway

GLEEFUL SAVAGERY IN THE CLAY
Jack Clemo's Selected Poems

ISNESS AND NOTNESS
Richard Berengarten, Tom Chivers, Peter Sansom

POLITICAL PROPERTY
Paul Sutton is a man of string

CONVEYING THE NECESSITY
Shazea Quraishi, Kim Moore, Philip Gross

UNDERSTANDING THE TERRAIN
Sarah Hopkins reviews new books by Isabel Galleymore,
Angela Gardner, Rosie Jackson and Isabel Palmer

OUT ON HIS OWN
Jane Routh on Colin Simms' Hen Harrier Poems

A HIGHLY SPECIFIC PROBLEM
new poems by Steve Spence

GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT
Charlie Baylis on Clive James' poetry

MIXED METHODS
new books by Barry Tebb, Tim Allen,
James Turner and Tom Jenks

MORE THAN WE DESERVE
David Hart on J.H. Prynne

SOLE UNDERSTANDING PHANTOM
Ian Seed's Glass Touches

CRITIQUE WITH CELEBRATION
More sonnets from Peter Hughes

NIGHT TERROR DUCK FEATHERED
new poems by Sarah Cave

DISCRETE OBJECTS
Stephen Emmerson's Comfortable Knives

STILL TRYING OUT THE LAST VERSION
Simon Collings is out west

ANTIDOTES

Charlie Baylis' cup is for vowels

LOTS OF TREES
Sarah Cave on Peter Larkin

ACTION SCORE GENERATOR
Steve Spence on Nathan Walker

COMMON NOTES
Martin Caseley on John Deane

ALL WE GHOSTS SHOULD WISE UP
from The Co-Ordinates of Doubt

RECREATIONAL SHOOTING
Andy Brown on Tom Raworth

KINSHIP
David Hart reviews four new titles

SUNLIT STONES & THUNDER TREES
Jay Ramsay is echoing the smoke

SURFING THE VOID
Charlie Baylis on Sam Riviere

NEW YORK SCHOOL PAINTERS & POETS

Martin Stannard is dazzled

A FIRST FIREWORK DISPLAY
Neil Fulwood on Iain Banks

INSTANCE TO INSTANCE
Aiden Semmens, John Milbank, Stephen Bett

THE CHIMERA OF PASSION
Paul Stubbs on Paul Sutton

MODERN LIFE IS RUBBISH
Charlie Baylis reviews in a blur

EFFACING THE EGO
Andy Brown on the road north

COW PUCKERED UP
FOR ROUND OF APPLAUSE

Mike Ferguson finds his Lovehearts

ERUDITE AND UNPRETENTIOUS
Steve Spence on Mark Totterdell


SILENT HIGHWAYS AND LAS VEGAS
'Viva Exurbia' says Phillip Clement

SIX KINDS OF QUIET
David Grubb is painting angels

FRACTURED IMAGES FLOAT FREE
Peter Gillies reviews Steve Spence

HOOKS IN CASE OF TREES
Peter Larkin's populations of attachment

INFORMATION DRENCHED ANXIETY

Paul Sutton interviews Rupert Loydell

THE SMOKE OF OLD HOPE

new poems by Donna Pucciani

PAPER AEROPLANES
Simon Armitage and Martin Stannard take flight

THE LAST WORD IS GOLD
Charlie Baylis is in San Francisco

PAINTING OURSELVES IN CORNERS
Ron Riekki leans against the summer

AN ACT OF FAILURE
Paul Sutton interviews Paul Stubbs

THE QUALITY OF ATTENTION
Jane Routh reviews

WHAT'S THE BIG IDEATION?
Joel Chace is standing outside science

SHADES OF COOL
Jon Thompson's Landscape with Light

IN CASE OF THIS. IN CASE OF THIS.
Sheila Mannix's case was not unique

SOLITUDES
AND QUANTUM POETICS
David Hart is doubtful

A TEST FOR POETS

How well will you score?

SPECULATRIX
Chris McCabe's latest reviewed

SPEECH IS OPTIONAL,
WRITING'S A MUST

Peter Dent is never at a loss

BETWEEN THE CHOLERIC
AND THE MELANCHOLIC

we find Daniel Y Harris

SUCKING IN THE SIXTIES

Charlie Baylis on Rosemary Tonks

LITTLE WHITE BULL
Steve Spence on John Muckle on British fiction

TAKEN FOR GRANTED
Martin Stannard on Dylan Harris and D.E. Oprava

THE EDITOR'S PICKS 2014

EVERY POET PAINTS HIMSELF

David Pollard's Self Portraits

A SLOW GAME
Lee Harwood's The Orchid Boat

NOT EVERY MAN KNOWS
WHAT HE SHALL SING AT THE END

Mark Strand, 1934-2014

THE GARBAGE CAN KID
David Lawrence pulls licorice from his ear

TRUTH MY ARSE
Martin Stannard kicks the rootball
of experience into touch

THE DEFIANCE OF DUST
Norman Jope hymns the past

INSIDER ART
Tim Allen's unsociable sonnets

SINK OR SWIM
'Five poets are out in coracles...'
Sarah Cave supervises


LIGHTING NOW HIDES NOTHING
Paul Sutton braves the spotlight

POETRY WE NEED
three new translated volumes

TONIGHT THE SUMMER'S OVER
Belinda Cooke on the damage done
to Rory Waterman


NO MORE BLANK CLOUDS
Charlie loves Elizabeth

HOYOOT
Phillip Clement on Tom Pickard

ANGELIC ACTIVISM
Norman Jope on Jay Ramsay

WELCOME TO BEFUDDLEMENT CITY
Martin Stannard is confused

FUTURE DAYS
Norman Jope on David Stubbs on krautrock

'NOT ONLY IN DREAMS'
Phillip Clement on David Harsent

SOME SORT OF NIGHTMARE MEMORY
Paul Sutton on Jesse Glass

NUCLEAR SOUNDS
Charlie Baylis on the Faber New Poets

EIGHT PAMPHLETS
reviewed by Geoff Sawers

MAKING TIME
Alan Garner's Red Shift finally on DVD

BACK TO BIRMINGHAM
Martin Caseley on Roy Fisher

ENTHUSIASTIC AND ERUDITE
Steve Spence goes to hell with Philip Terry

CLOSE TO THE EDGE
Andy Brown's Exurbia

FFFE, DUH, UHH, RIGHT
from James McLaughlin's Revelation

A PURELY OPINION BASED PIECE
five untitled sonnets by John Lowther

SILENCE IN PROGRESS
John Mingay is about to have

DEAR READER

This is not what you are meant to be doing

from
FALLING OFF
new poems by Paul Sutton

SIGNS OF LIFE
Martin Stannard takes tea with Alan Halsey

TOP OF THE LIST
Martin Stannard on Paul Violi

AN INSTINCT FOR VOICE
Sirkka Turkka and Ihor Pavlyuk

MANIFESTO AND INTERPRETATION
Sam Richards and Kelvin Corcoran

STATEMENTS AND PRAYERS
Ilya Kaminsky and Jay Ramsay

FOUR FOR THE FLOOR
from Nine Arches Press

BLANK CLOUDS
Charlie Baylis grapples with Terror

LIFE AFFIRMING
Belinda Cooke on Thomas Kinsella's Late Poems

MODERN ROMANTICISM
Phillip Clement reviews three new titles

THE CROSSING OF PATHS
new books from Carrie Etter, Tim Allen,
David Greenslade and Peter Dent


TRANSLATIONS, TRANSFERENCE AND RESPONSES
Poems from The Poetry Translation Centres
and Deryn-Rees Jones' Helen Thomas

ONE FOR SORROW
Simon Jenner's Two for Joy reviewed

SIGNIFICANT
David Hart reviews two new titles

I LOVE YOU YOU'RE A BOOK
Lucy Harvest Clarke's BABA

from ABSENCES

Ian Seed will not tolerate intruders

HALF-LIFE
Belinda Cooke reviews Michael Hulse

SURREAL TRUTH & OTHER PLEASURES
four new Arc volumes of translated poems

GEMS AND ASSES' HEADS
John Ashbery's Collected French Translations: Prose

HIDDEN, UNCOVERED, WASHED ASHORE
Alisdair Paterson reviews

CODE-OBJECTS FOR THE EPHEMERAL
new poems by Harry Guest


HEARING VOICES
new books by Bill Lewis and Jay Ramsay

THE PHYSICAL AND THE ABSTRACT
new books by James Davies and Nathan Thompson

WHO ARE THE MEN WHO MADE US THIN?
Steve Spence finds it hard to navigate

JAGUAR VARIATIONS
David Chorlton is one of the chosen few


A DAVID MILLER SPECIAL

1. A review of Reassembling Still
'A beautiful vision' says James Davies

2. An interview with David Miller
questions, questions, questions

3. 'The Notes that We Hear'
for David Miller


IT WOULD BE NOBODY'S FAULT

Scott Kinder-Pyle's contingency plan

ALPHABETICAL INSTRUCTIONS
compression poems by Iain Britton

THE POETICS OF THE CROOKBACK

new poems by Hazel Smith

IN A FORM OF SUSPENSION
Pansy Maurer-Alvarez reviewed

THREE BRITISH BIRDS
by Stephen Meek

NOT WHAT YOU MIGHT EXPECT
Steve Spence is minding his Ps and Qs

LESSON NUMBER 1

Andy Brown on John Ashbery's translations

AURORA BOREALIS SCREENSAVER
Camille Martin slam dunks her trope

A FIGURE FLITS IN & OUT OF MIND
James Davies on Scott Thurston

THINGS TO BE GRATEFUL FOR
Carrie Etter and David Scott

READING THE CENTURY
new books by Alan Baker, Anne Carsons,
Ian Seed and Chrissy Williams


CAUGHT UP IN THE MOVEMENT
Tim Allen, Alasdair Paterson and Ron Silliman reviewed

VERSIONS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE
Peter Dent is making a dash for it

ARCABOLENO RAINBOW
David Hart is curious

NO MORE WHORES IN BABYLON
Surrealist poetry in Britain

ACROSS HISTORY
Richard Berengarten's Manual

SCENES OF ABANDONMENT
Phil Bergerson's American Artifacts

WRITING & REWRITING PLACE

Isabel Galleymore on Falling into Place
and Maps & Legends


REFRESHINGLY NOW

Simon Smith and surface dazzle

EPICS OF OPTIMISM
Martin Stannard is a scribbler of hope

RELAXATION AND CONTROL
Steve Spence on Philip Terry's Advanced Immortality

HOW TO WRITE ABOUT WRITING
David Kennedy on John Hall on Performance Writing

KING ITCHY BLEACH
SETS HIS WATCH BACK TO 1967

Andy Darlington behaves badly

DOWN TO EARTH

singing and squatting poems

PROPERLY TASTE THE LEMON

Andrew Taylor is tracking the movement

LOCKED ROOM MYSTERIES
Alasdair Paterson is Waiting for Bluebeard

THE BODY WAS INDEED COLD
Rodney Wood stretches toward the impossible

OVER THE TOP, AGAIN
Martin Caseley reviews John Greening

TRAVELLING SOUTH
Tony Lucas catches at the ragged edge

AN ASTONISHING CONTRADICTION
Tom Jenks' Streak Artefcats

FACE THE MUSIC
4AD, David Sylvian and punk 45s

THE EDITOR'S PICKS 2013





   

Archive
previous articles