Subscriptions and Orders:

Annual subscription (three issues) is £25.00 UK and £35.00 non-UK. Current issues, Staple 71: The Art Issue and Staple 69/70: The Publishing Issue, are available at £10.00 per copy, Staple 68: The East Midlands Issue at £5.00 per copy, and all back-issues at £3.50 per copy. Limited quantities are available on some titles, and all prices include P&P. Please make Cheques/Postal Orders/International Money Orders in sterling payable to Staple Magazine, or go to our secure store at http://staplemagazine.bigcartel.com/ for electronic payment options.

Subscriptions and orders should be sent to Wayne Burrows at the address below.

Submission Guidelines:

Staple welcomes poems, short fiction, articles and reviews for consideration. Please send no more than six poems at a time. Short fiction and articles should, generally, be no more than 3000 words. Longer works of exceptional merit may be considered, but are liable to be judged on a sampling rather than complete reading in the first instance to ascertain suitability. Please ensure work is typed on A4 paper, and enclose an SAE of sufficient size and postage for return of submissions. If submitting from outside the UK you should include two IRCs. Please allow up to eight weeks for a response.

Submissions and orders should be sent to:

Wayne Burrows, 114 – 116 St Stephen’s Road, Sneinton, Nottingham NG2 4JS

Reviews and books for review should be sent to:

C.J. Allen, 36 Penarth Rise, Mapperley, Nottingham NG5 4EE

Back issues available, most of these now in very limited numbers:

STAPLE 50: Spring 2001. 96pp. (£3.50)
20 Years Of Twentieth Century Poetry
Donald Measham and Bob Windsor’s dust-jacketed paperback anthology of poems selected from the first fifty issues of the magazine, including work by Elizabeth Gowing, Maurice Rutherford, Anne Kind, Ben Wilensky, D.A.Prince, Jon Silkin, Donald Measham, Pauline Stainer, Roger Elkin, Elizabeth Barrett, Tony Rees, Julian Stannard, Bob Windsor, Berlie Doherty, John Sewell, Ann Atkinson, Mary Maher, Michael Henry, Bob Cooper, Tobias Hill, Diana Syder, Julia Casterton, Catherine Byron and many more.

STAPLE 51: Summer 2001. 104pp. (£3.50)
Including Melanie Giles on Archaeology, Poetry & Photography, poems by Stephen Blyth, Virgil Suarez, Jo Roach, Gregory Warren Wilson, Sally Festing, Jim Caruth, Sue Butler, C.J.Allen and short fiction by Mark Czanik, Morgan Omotoye, Steve Allen and Eleke Boehmer.

STAPLE 52: Autumn 2001. 108pp. (£3.50)
Including John Sewell on The Writer’s Workshop, Diana Syder on Poetry and Science, poems by Brian Roberts, Clive Eastwood, Robin Ford, Jane Routh, and short fiction by Jeremy Worman, Jay Merill, Anita Shir-Jacob, Emmar Hamnett and Maud Betmel.

STAPLE 53: Spring 2002. 98pp. (£3.50)
Including Gregory Warren Wilson on The Business Of Listening, Josephine Dickinson on The Truth Of The Line, poems by Derrick Buttress, Patricia Pogson, Howard Wright, June Hall, Bob Tristram, Sue Butler, Derek Eales and Laura Hartmark, and short fiction by Stephan Collishaw, Simon Howells, Duncan White, Jennifer Bailey and Penny Feeny.

STAPLE 57: Summer 2003. 107pp. (£3.50)
Includes Stephan Collishaw on Burning The Translators Of Poetry, Denise Bennett on Poetry and Spirituality, poems by John Latham, Anne Ryland, Jocelyne Thébaut, John Gladwell, Cathy Grindrod, Dan Wyke and Kristina Close, and short fiction by Chris Sewart, A. Ni Mhaonaigh, Lee Stannard, Nora Nadjarian, Richard Hoyes and Susan Davis.

STAPLE 59: Spring 2004. 117pp. (£3.50)
Including Richard Hoyes on My Cleethorpes, Kevin Borman on The Words and the Silences, Peter Day on A Kind of Amazement, poems by Linda Black, Dan Wyke, M.A. Schaffner, Julia Deakin, Jim Caruth, Jane Routh, and short fiction by Maureen Gallagher, Kevin Clay, T.S. Hayer, Joe Cassius Archer and Sheila Sherwen.

STAPLE 60: Summer 2004. 131pp. (£3.50)
Including Poems and Critiques by Andy Hirst, Brian Lewis and Scott Thurston, feature sections on Carrie Etter and John Halliday, poems by Judith Wright, Marilyn Gunn, Howard Wright, John Gladwell, Christopher Barnes, Subhadassi, Shirin Jindini and Frank Dullagan, and short fiction by Eifion Rees, Neil Sproul, Jonathan Taylor and Paul Rayson.

STAPLE 62: Spring/Summer 2005. (£3.50)
Ten Years of Small Press Poets: An Alternative Generation
The Alt-Gen Promotion by Elizabeth Barrett, Matthew Clegg and Maggie Hannan, featured collections and poems from Mary Michaels, Geoff Hattersley, Martin Hayes, Josephine Dickinson, Robert Hamburger, Helen Macdonald, Nicholas Johnson, Jackie Wills, Stuart Pickford, Andrew Duncan, Joseph Woods and Lynne Wycherley. Also includes small press publishers and editors, and short fiction by Jay Merrill, Mark Czanik, Stephan Collishaw, Penny Feeny, Gregory Heath and David Swann.

STAPLE 64: Spring 2006. 112pp. (£3.50)
Including Matthew Clegg on a Grasmere residency, poems by Ann Pilling, Virginia Astley, Peter Benson, Christine Brandel, Hugh Dunkerley, Helen Cadbury, River Wolton, Geoff Hattersley, James Caruth and Eleanor Cooke, photographs by Kiera Moore and Jack Burnicle and short fiction by Joel Lane, Sean Lusk, Maureen Gallagher, Rob Hindle and Richard Hollins.

STAPLE 65: Summer 2006. 88pp. (£3.50)
Including poems by Lynne Wycherley, John Sewell, Tony Curtis, Ruth Valentine, Peter Carpenter, Knute Skinner, Cherry Smyth, Ruth O’Callaghan, Josh Ekroy, photographs by Ray Manley, and short fiction by Lesley Jackson, Roberta Dewa, Mark Czanik, Rosie Ford and Jonathan Taylor.

STAPLE 66/67: Summer 2007 (£3.50)
Including Cyril Seaton: Saucy Surrealist, Douglas Houston on Tea With Dr Larkin, Peter Stephens & Martin Wasserman’s translation of Oskar Baum’s Riff-Raff, plus poems by Peter Porter, Mimi Khalvati, John Barnie, Mairi MacInnes, John Seed, Clare crossman, Christine McNeill, Douglas Houston, Paul Groves, Desmond Graham, Elizabeth Foy, Sophie Mayer, Joel Lane, Graham Fulton, Hsein Min Toh, AC Bevan, Arlene Ang, Jeremy Duffield and Yuko Minamikawa Adams, artwork by Andrea Roe and stories by Chris Sewart, Jill Campbell, Mary Michaels and Simon Howells.

TWO + TWO (Staple First Editions, 1997). 99pp. £3.50.
Poems by Ruth Sharman & Alison Spritzler-Rose, short fiction by Catherine Conzato & John Gower.

JENNIFER OLDS: An Extra Half-Acre (Staple First Editions, 1995). 48pp. £3.50
First UK collection from a Californian poet: winner of the 1992 Staple Competition.

JAMES CARUTH: A Stone’s Throw (Staple Press, 2007) £3.50
Debut collection from the winner of the 2006 Staple manuscript competition. James Caruth was born in Belfast in 1953. Educated in Ireland and Liverpool, he later lived in South Africa for a number of years before finally settling in Sheffield. Jean Sprackland praised the collection, considering that “James Caruth writes with warmth and humanity. His poems are accurate reminders of what really matters in our relationships with each other and the natural world”, while Roddy Lumsden notes that “These poems are carefully crafted and moving. [Caruth's] work has a deceptively simple quality, confident and straightforward, yet lifted by neat shifts of tone and well-chosen turns of phrase.”