Poetry Salzburg Review
After the publication of The Poet's Voice 6.1, with the substantial
section on contemporary Lithuanian poetry, in 2000, my co-editors Fred
Beake and James Hogg decided, for diverse reasons, to leave the masthead.
To be honest: I have always wanted to run my own magazine. So I took
time off to develop my own ideas about the policy and editorial structure
of the new magazine entitled Poetry Salzburg Review, which is NOT
meant to be the exclusive house-journal of my press Poetry Salzburg. However,
I have asked PS-authors to review new collections or even their own, a
feature I first came across in the excellent magazine The Rialto.
Apropos reviews: I will publish more reviews than appeared in The Poet's
Voice. However, I will - as was the case in PV - only publish
longer, detailed and in-depth reviews of the best collections. The reviewers
will include poets, whose collections were published under the imprint
University of Salzburg Press, poets and critics featured in PV,
PS-authors, members of the editorial board, as well as up-and-coming poets
and critics from all over the world.
Apropos the editorial board: It is the heterogeneity of an editorial
board that contributes to the liveliness and catholicity of a magazine.
I am very grateful to Lisa Fishman, Klaus Martens, David Miller, and Heidi
Prüger for having accepted my invitation to join the editorial board.
They will introduce themselves and their approach towards poetry and the
arts in the autumn issue. It is also possible for contributors to submit
work to members of the editorial board who will then make their pre-selection
and pass on work to the general editor for the final selection. PSR
will also publish more commissioned work, either commissioned by the general
editor or by members of the editorial board after prior consultation with
the general editor.
The catholicity and some features have remained from the old magazine.
I intend to continue with retrospectives of specific poets. I also want
to retain the previous interest in both the long poem and translations.
From time to time we want to investigate aspects of literary theory and
history, and to evaluate the achievement of particular small presses in
longer review-essays. I also want to give poets (and critics) a chance
to think aloud upon their art, and so for this purpose interviews will
be published when they are available. From time to time I also intend to
do special issues (or simply sections) upon particular topics. I am pretty
sure that the intellectual and creative input provided by the members of
the editorial board will provide - both to the readers/subscribers and
the general editor - a great many fascinating and stimulating surprises.
I would like to urge readers to support PSR by subscribing to
the magazine. I hope to preserve, as Jeffrey Carson so aptly put it, "the
poetry-loving, poetry-investigating, and straightforward mine of The
Poet's Voice in Poetry Salzburg Review."
Wolfgang Görtschacher
The following issues are available:
Forthcoming:
PSR 15 (Spring 2009)
