Turbulence Magazine Out Now

The third issue of Hull-based poetry magazine Turbulence is out now. Turbulence is a small-press magazine featuring poetry from Hull and around the world. As well as publishing many local poets, Turbulence publishes writing from across Britain and North America, India, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Australia and Iran. Poetry in issue three takes readers to Tehran, Gibraltar, Tuscany, sixteenth-century Portugal, Cambridge and Slough.

There is poetry about reading poems, advice on treating angel bites, expanding galaxies, unrequieted love, cafes, porcupines, holiday resorts, dog walkers, graffiti and much more. Copies can be bought for £1 including postage and packaging from: A Fisher, 29 Finchley Close, Hull. HU8 0NU (cheques etc payable to 'A Fisher'). Anyone wanting to see their work in a future edition of Turbulence can send poems by email to: turbulencemagazine@googlemail.com

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