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Chimera 1
Chimera 1 featured Danny Abse, T.Anders Carson, Sonja Besford, Alan Brownjohn, David Constantine, Elena Dahl, John Heath-Stubbs, Robert Minhinnick. William Oxley, Jeremy Reed, Heather Reyes, Geoff Stevens and Philip Wilson.
Chimera 2
Chimera 2 featured John Heath-Stubbs, Adrian Mitchell, Carole Satyamurti, Tony Lucas, Tim Cunningham, Jeremy Reed, Derek Adams, Steve Sneyd and Geoff Stevens. Literary Magazine Review, (from the University of Wisconsin) said about Chimera Two : "Nothing in the issue had the faults of much writing in most American independent literary magazines. Very interesting..."
The launch date was 12.03.2005.
Chimera 3
Chimera 3 featured A. Lee Firth, Adrian May, Alistair Noon, Antonin Artaud, Ashok Niyogi, David Greenslade, Derek Adams, Dharminder Gill, Frank Dullaghan, Geoff Stevens, Hilary Mellon, Ian Mullins, John Abrahams, John Muckle, Josh Ekroy, Ken Champion, Mark Floyer, P. Crittenden Bloom, Patrick McEvoy, Peter Bakowski, Peter Porter, Phillip Wilson, Ray Hollingsworth, Rod Riesco, Rodney Wood, W.E. Holloway. It was a bumper issue of 84pp!
"Here are true and new thoughts, feelings and imagery in natural language of precision, flexibility, faultless grace and rhythmic beauty...There are no cliches. Reading Chimera refreshes the mind with new combinations of words and ideas. Chimera Three is vibrant." Leslie Bell, Wivenhoe News.
The launch date was 25.11.2005.
Chimera 4
Chimera Four featured work by such poets as David Constantine, Maurice Riordan and Paul Groves. Chimera 4 won the best of UK Small Press Awards by the Purple Patch pole for consistently good poetry 2006.
The launch date was 22.06.2006
Chimera 5
'The Baby Beats' edition' with American poets: Thomas Rain Crowe, Philip Daughtry, Neeli Cherkovski, and Kathryn McDonough alongside work by Michael Horovitz, Alfonso C. Hernandez, the Chicano poet and exceptional artwork of Lee Thomas.Read Robert Cole's new poems too, plus stories from Jay Merill, Olivia McCannon and Susie Reynolds.
Chimera 5 was been launched in the UK to great praise for the new A4 format, Poems praised by contributers included Robert Cole's Injury Time and Corollary- also Neeli Cherkovsky's Smoking a Good Cigar. Philip Daughtry's and Kaye McDonough's poems and Susie's story Man dancing; Lee Thomas's Art Work was also commended as was Olivia McCannon's cover picture.
Chimera Six, the cosmic issue contains g-force poems by Steve Sneyd, H.D. Moe (of City Lights fame), we have the latest poems of David Constantine and an exciting new set from Carole Satyamurti, Roger Caldwell's 'Fear of Flying' from his Ninth Arrondissement Press book,'Walking on the Moon', Alan M. Kent visiting professor of Celtic literature at the University of Coruna, Satyendra Srivastava who has a book with Ambit, it's our best value issue so far. Buy now and insure your place on the intergalactic highway, for only £5, 7 dollars, 7 euros.
The launch date was 09.11.2006
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