WHAT DID YOU SAY WE WERE?
      First off - you'll find we are an ez-ine. I didn't have the foggiest notion what an e-zine was, it doesn't appear in my dictionary and has only recently found it's way into my spell checker. I take it, from the context in which I've found it, that we are an electronic magazine, or that bits of us are. This means constant new news, and up- dating on every level. Or at least, so I suppose. 

NEWSY BITS
      The newsy bits are in The Echo News, which appears reasonably near the beginning of the month, and the Net News which appears somewhere near the middle of the month. The March Echo is up. It contains a review of what happened in the Echo and what the poets were writing last month. This is the March Net News, so if you're looking at it, that's been done too and,  presumably, you've found it. For the Echo News, hit Fido News from the index or the front page.

POETRY ? WHAT ABOUT POETRY? 
      Of course we are a Poetry e-zine. Which means that new poetry is appearing all the time. 
The Echo poets
      have been a little on the back burner so far as the site has been concerned, as I was trying to make each section presentable so that in future I shan't be slogging to catch up. That's the theory anyway. The Echo is our mainstay, without it, we don't have a lot to say, so the resource is there and the poems ready on my desktop to set. 
    My idea is that, from now on, each section will grow in balance with the others,  and I now feel more confident that they can do so. The latest poems to go up in the Echo Section were the February ones. Ewan's Cycle is half set with some proof reading questions hanging over it. Terry's Cobb Valley and Power Station, and Bob's Unsung are there in all their beauty for our relish. 

The Net poets
      were nothing like so well established, their voices are different, new and hard hitting. There wasn't the variety and breadth of material, which may be found presently in the echo. The guidelines too are different, and some of them have taken a lot of thinking about. 
 

March Overview of the Net Poets
     There are three new poems from Will - with new and even better ones to come. Purple Witch's poetry was hard to set. She has several children's books to her name so strictly speaking there should be a page to every few lines - with illustrations to dream of. We've neither the space nor the artist to dream of.  I've done the best I can though and I hope you enjoy these poems as much as I do. A new net poet this month is A. Lee-Nate, who chose his alias because it suited him and then discovered that many people chose it because it was 'cool'. It does suit him, but we've made his alias a little less accessible. You'll find several stunning poems in the net poet's section.

Retrospective
      was gifted with some of Eddie Kyle's poems this month. I added a few from Alice Thorpe, more as a gesture of good intentions than as anything else. There are some Terry Bowden in the pipeline, and plans to  publish 'Envy' and some early Thorpe Scribble. Songs by Ted Chapman are being re-gathered as we speak. 

The anthology
     has some new links, and is now at the point where additions can be made fairly simply whether of poems or of links. If I have left out someone of vital significance to you or you find a link you think would do wonderfully well. drop me a note and I'll check it out. I know that there are plenty of things I'ld like to see there that aren't. 
 
 

RESOURCES
    have a new addition. Terry Bowden's readable "How to Read Poetry" and his  witty addendum on "Poetic Punctuation". I've some links I would like to see there, to other resources of various kinds: and I've some thoughts on actually writing poetry which will no doubt bubble to the surface in due order.