Shit Creek Review
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The Shit Creek Review is an online literary and art magazine (webzine or e-zine). Its content is mostly related to poetry, and includes work belonging the differing styles of formalism and free verse by established authors and new writers. It draws on the authors and resources of a number of online poetry forums, such as Eratosphere and The Gazebo.
[edit] History
It was founded by Australian poet Paul Stevens and has Nigel Holt and Angela France as its poetry editors, Don Zirilli as its art editor, and Patricia Wallace Jones as artist-in-residence. It has published many notable poets from the U.K., U.S. and Australia, including John Whitworth, Rhina Espaillat, R.S. Gwynn, Alison Brackenbury, Tim Murphy, Charlotte Runcie and Wendy Videlock.
The ezine was originally started by Stevens as a joke based on its name Shit Creek Review, which is a not-so-subtle ironic allusion to the many literary magazines which use the formulaic title "X Creek (or River) Review", as well as incorporating a play on the Australian colloquialism "Up Shit Creek in a barbed wire canoe without a paddle"(meaning to be in serious difficulties), made famous by Australian comedian Barry Humphries through his persona of the ocker "Barry McKenzie".
[edit] Blog
Information about The Shit Creek Review can be found on The Shit Creek Review Blog. Serious and less serious discussions of literary and other matters take place there, as well as links to poetry and art-related sites of interest.
