Ol’Chanty Reviews White Fungus #11

Scotland’s Ol’Chanty, the online manifestation of former print publication Chanticleer Magazine, has reviewed the current issue of White Fungus.

Most poetry magazines in Britain today have the feel of the ghetto about them. They are about poetry and not much besides. Even their critical practice is all about poetry. You wouldn’t think, reading many of them, that we live in a wider more volatile world which of necessity impacts on poets and poetry. It was not always the case. There were plenty of against the grain magazines in the 60s and 70s. One of the joys of browsing the New York bookshops in the late 70s and early 80s was the plethora of such magazines to be found there. In the mid-80s, Margin appeared in Britain edited by Robin Magowan and Walter Perrie, and did a pretty good job of making up for the shortfall at the time, but it died a death, I think, before the 90s were on us. And there hasn’t really been anything like it since. So I think we should welcome White Fungus as an arts, music and poetry magazine with a decidedly political drift.

Read the rest here (you’ll need to scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the review): http://www.chanticleer-press.com/magazine.html