Edited by Chris Holdaway
Published October 2013
ISSN 2253-4873
Featuring: Steven Toussaint, Joan Fleming, Andrew David King, Lee Posna, Carolyn DeCarlo & Jackson Nieuwland, Alex Taylor, Hanne Nielsen, Drew Boston, Mikaela Nyman, Paul Gallagher, Diane Marie, Bill Nelson, Rose Beasley.
Note this issue was originally published online-only with no corresponding print publication.
Times change, people change. It was the best of times, the worst of times. And so on and so on. What’s certain is that for a year we made good on our intention to put out a quarterly print journal of contemporary poetry reaching from Aotearoa New Zealand across the world; but like so much of globalism we can at some point run up against the unsustainability of our extractive efforts.
So we pack our bags and head online for a while, to look at ourselves slightly differently: a little less money pouring out through holes in our pockets, and maybe even a wider reach. Excuse my boarding house…
Some particularly exciting things: an expansive poem by Steven Toussaint that we might have struggled to tetris into a modestly sized print journal; a cadre of some real international favourites on both sides of the Atlantic; collaborative poems; it goes on.
What’s more…? For the foreseeable each issue of Minarets will be a solo editing climb, as co-founder Lauren Strain is, at this time, too on-the-road to be pinned down by even the most lyric poetry.
May we continue to put out captivating calls to prayer.
Chris Holdaway
October 2013
