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June 2025
We have a slight imbalance on the site this month; our
poets have been very industrious and we have nine(!) poetry collections to
enjoy but out story-tellers are less well represented!
I am extremely grateful to all of you who take the trouble
to contribute to the site and I sincerely hope that you will all continue to do
so.
It's the ebb and flow of things of course, next month I'll
probably be snowed-under with prose.. who knows?
In any case it's all good stuff and I'm sure you'll find
something you like.
Before we get going I'd better mention Gary Beck's new
book "Pirate Spring" which is available
Amazon.
Michael
Smith is a regular contributor and this time he has a story of three
sisters with different attitudes to, and opinions on, art. Read The Art
Gallery.
KJ Hannah
Greenberg brings us possibly the shortest story we have ever
published. It's called Arachibutyrophobia, a title almost as long
as the story!.
Simon
King takes us right the way back to the first century when
Christianity was in it's infancy. Here we find Arius who has some
controversial ideas.
Terry Brinkman has a great new
piece of art called Tetons. It's on his art page along with all
his other pictures too.
KJ Hannah Greenberg this time
brings us a collection of her photographs. These are pictures of interesting
trees.
John
Grey is here once again with these excellent poems: You Are
This - The Sun And Sky Poem - Farmer Takes A Wife and You’re
In The Way.
Diane
Webster has more great poems for us and it's a moving experience:
Footprints - Up or Down - Entrance - Fall Illusions and
Generations.
Tony
Dawson is back with some more witty observations on Trump and other
subjects. Here we have: Fate - Hermaphrodite - The Golfer of America
and Donnie the Autarch.
Richard
LeDue has some enjoyable and thought-provoking poetry for you:
Something So Unknown - Grapes and Naked and
Dead.
John
Doyle is an Irish poet new to Winamop and he introduces himself with
these poems: Antonio - It Tore My Heart to Pieces When I Heard the Levee
Ain't Gonna Break No More and Benny.
Fabrice B.
Poussin is here for the first time in 2025 with these five poems:
Almost Man - Old Bishop - Tall Girl - The Words I Need and
They Sleep Now.
Gary
Beck has been with us for years and his work never disappoints. Here
we have: Remaining Pleasures - What If? - Too Big to Fail - Misled
Artists and Ode to Liz Cheney.
Terry
Brinkman has three new poems for us this time and he's been
traveling They are: Mammoth - Bitterroot Valley and House
of Sticks.
KJ Hannah
Greenberg returns with three new poems of light and shade:
Clipboard Cat - Randos and Reprisal.
And so we come to the end of another edition of Winamop,
still crazy after all these years.
If you feel you have something to contribute to the site -
stories, poems art or music - please do so and together we'll keep Winamop
going. The email button is at the bottom of this page.
I'm waiting for summer to arrive in Scotland and then I'll
complain that it's too hot.
Bye for now.
Ed.
Winamop was conceived on a
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continued unabashed since 2003.
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