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Included in this Issue - Purple Patch Small Press Best of 2006 Lists.....
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Best U.K. Small Press Poetry Magazines of the Year (last year’s place in brackets)
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1.
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Chimera No.4 (4)
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2.
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The Seventh Quarry Issue 4 (10=)
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3.
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Chimera No.3
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4.
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Chanticleer Issue 13 (10=)
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5.
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The Slab No. 2
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6.
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Outlaw No.11 (2)
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7.
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Reach Issue 101
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8.
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The Seventh Quarry Issue 3
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9.
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Saw No.3 (5=)
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10=
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Rain Dog 12
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10=
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Littoral 4 & 6
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10=
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Poetry Monthly 120, 121, 126 (1)
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Small Press Poetry Magazine Poets of the Year
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1.
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Norman Bissett (3)
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2.
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Ken Champion
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3.
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Kate Edwards
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4=.
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Letitia Ann Rhys
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4=.
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Michael Newman
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6=.
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Ian Mullins
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6=.
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Derek Adams (5)
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8.
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Nigel Humphries
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9.
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Simon Zoneblik
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10=
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Carla Jetko
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10=
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Deborah Tyler-Bennett
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12.
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Steve Sneyd (8)
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13.
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Brendan Hawthorne
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14
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Chrissie Gittins
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15.
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Wendy Webb
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16.
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Ray Avery
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17.
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Simon Fletcher
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18.
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Andrew Darlington (1)
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19.
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[Note: 20 poets tied for 19th place]
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Best Overseas Magazines exness pro account
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1.
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The Red Moon Volume 4 Issue 5 (USA)
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2.
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Labour of Love Volume 26 (Canada) (3)
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3.
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Minotaur #44 (USA) (2)
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4.
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The Moon Volume 4 Issue 2 (USA) (6)
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5.
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Las Cruces Volume 3 Issue 4 (USA)
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6.
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Labour of Love Volume 25 (USA)
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7.
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The Laughing Dog Issue 12 (USA) (5)
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8.
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The Moon Volume 14 Issue 9 (USA)
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9.
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The Moon Volume 4 Issue 8 (USA)
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10=
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Red Owl 23
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10=
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The Blind Man’s Rainbow
Volume 2 Issue 1 (USA)
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10=
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Beatlick News Volume 8 Issue 29 (USA)
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Best Individual Collections
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1.
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Mare Marginis
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by Lesley Harrison
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Poetry Scotland
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2.
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Arbor Low
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by Martin Holroyd
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Poetry Monthly Press
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3.
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The Slow Crawl to the East
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by Geoff William
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Dial 174
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4.
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Fat Man Dancing
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by Tina Bass
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Poetry Monthly Press
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5.
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Poems from the Taw & Torridge Estuaries
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by James Bell
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Poetry Scotland
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6.
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Looking for Icarus
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by Roselle Angwin
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Bluechrome
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7.
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Everyday Objects Chanmce Remarks
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by Derek Adams
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The Littoral Press
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Best Anthologies
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1.
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The Real Survivor’s Anthology
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Edited by Barry Tebb
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Sixties Press
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2.
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Coasting Norfolk
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Edited by Wendy Webb
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Poetry Monthly Press
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3.
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Waves 2006
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Edited by Liz Rowlands
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The Society of Civil Service Writers
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