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SOUTH Poetry Magazine

SOUTH poetry magazine has earned a special place on the poetry scene. It pioneered a unique system of selection aimed at giving all poets the best possible chance of getting published. Some earlier issues can be seen online at the Poetry Library website.

Poems for SOUTH 69 have now been selected and typeset. A list of successful poets and their poems appears at the Next issue pages. Congratulations to all those chosen.

Sadly, the management team has had to make pricing changes due to rising print and postal costs. The new rates are set out on the Subscribe page, and apply to new subscribers. They will not affect existing subscribers until it is time for them to renew.

SOUTH does not receive any outside financial support, so we are entirely reliant on subscriptions to stay in print - we have to cover our costs.

In accordance with our aim of fitting in as many poems as possible, we are no longer accepting poems longer than 40 lines. We also ask all poets to check that their work meets all the Submission guidelines.

Our postal address is: SOUTH poetry magazine, PO Box 9338, WIMBORNE, BH21 9JA

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SOUTH is published twice yearly. It features previously unpublished poems written in English.

Poems are chosen by a selection panel, which changes for each issue. The poets' names are withheld from the panel, to give all poets a fair chance of being published. Around 60 poems are chosen for each issue.

SOUTH features a specially written profile of a well-published poet, accompanied by a generous selection of poems. Book reviews and information for subscribers also appear in each issue. SOUTH encourages the poets it publishes to get to know each other by inviting them to take part in public readings that launch each issue.

SOUTH is run by a management team. The current team is: Anne Peterson, Penny Dale, Pauline Howard, Peter Keeble, Dave Martin and Chrissie Williams.

Members of the management team are willing to give talks on all aspects of publishing SOUTH which they can combine with a poetry reading. Contact us if you would like us to visit your group - no fee is asked, except covering our travel costs.