The latest issue of Agenda, Vol. 42 No.1, with a special focus on Poems on Water, came out in June, 2006. Also included is a long poem by John Fuller. Incisive essays at the cutting edge of poetry are by such notable critics as Martin Dodsworth and William Bedford.
Michael Kinsella is the chosen young Broadsheet essayist. The two Broadsheet poets highlighted in the issue are Sinead Wilson, 31, and Ailie MacDonald, 18, whose work shows a surprising maturity.
Agenda’s continual encouragement of young poets and essayists is further demonstrated, as always, by the accompaniment of a very lively, colourful online Broadsheet 6. This contains work by 16 ‘young’ poets: Tom Bedford (17), Ross Cogan (35), Sarah Hesketh (22), Carley Moulton (22), P.T. Abbott (19), Anne- Louise Kershaw (26), Lisa D’Onofrio (34), Shivani Sivagurunathan (24), Jessica Harkins (32), Peter Upham (36), Lawrence Bradby (36), Anthony Trevelyan (32), P. Viktor (27), Natalie Ford (30), Naomi Foyle (38), Tupa Snyder (30).