Second Light, including Second Light Publications, which published ARTEMISpoetry,
has disbanded w.e.f. 1st November 2024.
We do, however, still have back copies of some of the 33 issues published and would be pleased to receive enquiries from anyone who would like to have them for the cost of postage only. Enquiries to Administrator at secondlight@poetrypf.co.uk or by phone 0044 (0)1689 811394. Browse Contents pages of those issues still in hand (pdf file) or use leftside menu or browse below to see selected extracts from them.
ARTEMISpoetry Issue 33 (November, 2024): 30 years of Second Light: Mission Accomplished
Editors: Kay Cotton, Dilys Wood and (Poetry) Katherine Gallagher
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30 Years of Second Light: Mission Accomplished.
read Anne Stewart’s Farewell to ARteMiS…
Shell Woman, by Andria J Cooke
ARTEMISpoetry Issue 32, May 2024, FOCUS ON LONG POEMS
Editors: Daphne Milne, Dilys Wood and (Poetry) Anne Stewart
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A Starry Acheivement
Mixing Playfulness and Sincerity: Sarah Westcott reviews collections by Patricia Brody, Martina Evans,Kathryn Gray, Sue Hubbard and Abigail Parry
read Carol Coates’s long poem, ‘Mourning in the Second Year’
Croci Chorus, by Patricia Brody
ARTEMISpoetry Issue 31, November 2023, PAIN AND GAIN IN POETRY
Editors: Justina Hart, Dilys Wood and (Poetry) Anne Ryland
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The Pain and the Gain: Justina Hart interviews Myra Schneider
Pand and Gain: Katherine Gallagher, Sarah James/Leavesley, Maggie Sawkins and Ruth Sharman respond to our focal point in this issue
Second Light Poetry Competition 2023: read the winning poems by Jenny Hamlett and Kathy Miles, Justina Hart and Pat Marum
Poems as published in the Issue. Note that Kathy Miles’ poem has since been published in her collection Vanishing Point, out from Palewell Press, 2024
ARTEMISpoetry Issue 29, November 2022, Breaking new ground: where to now with your poetry?
Editors: Sarah Westcott, Dilys Wood and (Poetry) Lyn Moir
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Testing Ideas, Making Discoveries: Sarah Westcott interviews Jemma Borg
Second Light Poetry Competition, 2022, Adjudication comment by Moniza Alvi and Winning poems by Kathryn Bevis and Jane Routh
read the poemsBreaking New Ground: we invited Sarah Corbett, Rebecca Goss, Angela Leighton, Lorraine Mariner and Kay Syrad to give their views on ambition / widening the scope / moving forward in their work and asked for their take on the topic, whether on their own practice or across the board.
ARTEMISpoetry Issue 28, May 2022, Focus on Some Women Poets in the Border Country (North East)
Editors: Dilys Wood, Annie Wright and (Poetry) Kathy Miles
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Living in the Imagination: Dilys Wood reviews Louise Glück
Sonnets of Conflicted Feelings: Myra Schneider reviews Hannah Lowe
Poetry selected by Kathy Miles. Poems by Jenny Hamlett, Mary Robinson, Penelope Shuttle and Kathryn Southworth.
ARTEMISpoetry Issue 27, November 2021, Focus on Australian Poets
Editors: Katherine Gallagher, Dilys Wood and (Poetry) Ruth Sharman
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Founding Mothers: Katherine Gallagher on two stalwarts of Australian Poetry – Gwen Harwod and Judith Wright
Featured Poet, Wendy French (back cover)
read the poemsShort reviews by Susan Jane Sims
Second Light Poetry Competition: First Prize Poems from the 2021 competition.
Short poem category – Eleanor in the Garden, by Cathy Whittaker
and long poem category – Instructions for Bottling Ships by Daphne Milne
read the poems
ARTEMISpoetry Issue 26, May 2021, Focus on Perspective in Poetry
Editors: Myra Schneider, Dilys Wood and (Poetry) Wendy French
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In Perspective: Jemma Borg, Alison Brackenbury, Kathy Miles and Linda Saunders
Featured Poet, Caroline Carver (inside pages)
note: poem the moving of feet has since been published in her collection Cannonball with Feathers (Oversteps Books). read the poems
Lives of the Poets: remembering Anne Stevesnon, Bernie Kenny, Jamie Dedes and Joanna Boulter
ARTEMISpoetry Issue 24, May 2020, Focus on Wider Connections
Editors: Margaret Wilmot, Dilys Wood and (Poetry) Alison Brackenbury
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“To Know Your Story is to Understand” … Margaret Wilmot interviews Mimi Khalvati
Not Just Beginner’s Luck … Alison Brackenbury on U A Fanthorpe
“Starting Under One Régime and Ending in Another”
New Romanian poetry in translation, Anne Stewart and Prof. Dr. Lidia Vianu
Poetry Selected by Alison Brackenbury:
Read poem by Daphne Milne, Nature Morte
Read poems by Gráinne Tobin, The Nearest Thing, and Lynne Wycherley, (extract from Brooksong and Shadows, Otterton and the Great War) High Peak Camp
ARTEMISpoetry Issue 22, May 2019, Focus on Women Poets in Wales
Editors: Kathy Miles, Dilys Wood and (Poetry) Lyn Moir
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Keeping It Simple – Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, a new poem and notes
A Mid-Life Odyssey – rural living in Cumbria: Dilys Wood on M R Peacocke
Poems
Read poems by Moniza Alvi, What to Wear in Pakistan?, and Alice Kavounas, Blackbird Bathing in the Winter Light.
ARTEMISpoetry Issue 20, May 2018
Editors: Myra Schneider, Dilys Wood and (Poetry) Caroline Carver
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Kay Syrad on Emily Dickinson
Poems by Kathryn Southworth – Loving the Scars, Christine Vial – Inked and Dorothy Yamamoto – Cranes in the Snow Country
read the poemsCome Dancing Birds, by Caro Reeves
ARTEMISpoetry Issue 19, November 2017
Editors: Katherine Gallagher, Dilys Wood and (Poetry) Anne Stewart
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“Reflections on Reflections…”
Stevie Smith ‘Collected Poems and Drawings’
Yearnings of Wild Flowers, poem by Paula Jennings
Jemima, poem by Glynda Winterson
ARTEMISpoetry Issue 18, May 2017
Editors: Kay Syrad, Dilys Wood and (Poetry) Kate Foley
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“Taking Risks in Poetry…”, featuring Gillian Allnutt, Jemma Borg, Caroline Carver, Katherine Gallagher, Hannah Lowe, Caroline Price, Penelope Shuttle
“A Cruel and Tender Beauty…”, Nancy Campbell interviewed by Kay Syrad
“Small Can Be Beautiful…”, Kay Syrad and Dilys Wood on small collections
Going Back…, poem by Gill Learner
Patina, poem by Kathryn Southworth
ARTEMISpoetry Issue 17, November 2016
Editors: June Hall, Dilys Wood and (Poetry) Wendy French
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“Glass Slippers Were Never Made for Dancing…”, reviews by Dorothy Yamamoto
Winning poems from Second Light Poetry Competition 2016
First prize poems by Caroline Price, The fiancée replays her video
and Alison Mace, Schoolteaching: Five sonnets for performance
read the poems
Petronella … And Her Muse?, by Kate Foley
ARTEMISpoetry Issue 16, May 2016, Focus on Myra Schneider
Editors: Gill Learner, Dilys Wood and (Poetry) Maggie Sawkins
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Celebrating Myra Schneider at 80…, interview by Dilys Wood
and read poem, Returning, by Myra Schneider
Woman Poets for the Planet article by Dilys Wood
Poem by Angela Kirby: Small Talk read the poem
Poem by Penelope Shuttle: Doreen Shows Me Her Photos of Hamelin read the poem
ARTEMISpoetry Issue 15, November 2015, Focus on Ecology
Editors: Kate Foley, Dilys Wood and (Poetry) Moniza Alvi
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Sowing the Seeds of Continuance – the ecopoetry of Anne Cluysenaar, by Fiona Owen
The mysterious and the clear, reviews by Lavinia Singer
Second Light Poetry Competition 2015. Short poem winner, Carolyn King, with Souvenir and long poem winner, Margaret Wilmot, November Journal (extracts).
read the poems
ARTEMISpoetry Issue 14, May 2015, Focus on Anthologies
Editors: Anne Stewart, Dilys Wood and (Poetry) Susan Wicks
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The Illuminated World – a dialogue between science and poetry, by Jemma Borg and Kay Syrad
The Weather Wheel, review by Dilys Wood
Poem by Josie Turner: That Day
ARTEMISpoetry Issue 12, MAY 2014
Editors: Adele Ward, Dilys Wood and (Poetry) R V Bailey
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AMBITIOUS POETRY BY WOMEN: PART 4 – RADICAL LANDSCAPE POETRY, by Kay Syrad
Reviews: Ruth O’Callaghan on indwelling by Gillian Allnutt; Myra Schneider on At the Time of Partition by Moniza Alvi; Dilys Wood on Glass Wings by Fleur Adcock.
Poem by Elizabeth Hare: If Only
Poem by Glynda Winterson: Taking It Home
ARTEMISpoetry Issue 11, NOVEMBER 2013
Editors: Anne Stewart, Dilys Wood and (Poetry) Hilary Davies
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A Day About Dust, Judith Cair on Anne Carson’s ANTIGONICK
Review: Myra Schneider on Stag’s Leap by Sharon Olds.
Review: Dilys Wood on Tiger Facing the Mist by Pauline Stainer.
Second Light Poetry Competition, Second Prize Winner Gill Learner: Chill Factor
Lapith Woman, copyright © Monica Farthing:
ARTEMISpoetry Issue 10, MAY 2013
Editors: Myra Schneider, Dilys Wood and (Poetry) Anne Cluysenaar
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My Trumpet Teacher is a Poet … Is that cool? – article by Kim Moore.
Second Light Poetry Competition, Long Poem Winner A C Clarke: A Year in Transit (extracts)
Second Light Poetry Competition, Short Poem Winner Doreen Hinchliffe: The Newlyweds
Poem by Alison Brackenbury: At Needlehole
ARTEMISpoetry Issue 9, NOVEMBER 2012
Editors: Kay Syrad, Dilys Wood and (Poetry) Alison Brackenbury
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Bodies of Work, Clare Best on the major creative project inspired by her risk-reducing breast surgery
Review: Caroline Carver on Abegail Morley’s Snow Child.
Poem by Pat Allen: Primroses in Sarajevo
Poem by Angela Kirby: Dr Stagbant Talks of Roses
ARTEMISpoetry Issue 8, MAY 2012
Editors: Anne Stewart, Dilys Wood and (Poetry) Myra Schneider
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Running Down to Winter, Maureen Duffy interviewed by Ruth O’Callaghan
Reviews: Intimate Subversions: Maria Jastrzębska on Argentinian poets: Ana Becciú, Tamara Kamenszain, Alejandra Pizarnik (tr. Cecilia Rossi) and Mori Ponsowy (tr. Naomi Foyle).
Poem by Kaye Lee: Shattered
From the Poet’s Notebook: Musicians, copyright © Kate Foley:
ARTEMISpoetry Issue 3, November 2009
Editors: Anne Stewart, Dilys Wood and (Poetry) Katherine Gallagher
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An Interview with Marilyn Hacker, by Ruth O’Callaghan
Poem by Judith Kazantzis: Evening
Poem by Caroline Price: Snowman