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Prole is a print magazine that publishes high quality, accessible poetry and prose. Prole aims to challenge, engage and entertain but never exclude. We want to reconnect readers with writers. Therefore, after publication, readers and writers will be invited to share their thoughts and experiences together on our blog.
Prole Issue 7 is available now. A fantastic mix of fiction and poetry. We are, as ever, surprised and grateful for the fantastic submissions we receive. To purchase, click here.
 Over the next few months, Prole will be working to help raise the profile of Anti-Slavery International. On the launch of issue 7, we will also be fundraising to support their activities. Anti-Slavery International work around the world to eliminate all forms of slavery. Please take time to find out about their work, click on the image.
Prolebooks has just released an excellent short poetry collection, Close to Home. In his debut collection, Close to Home, poet and playwright, Michael Crowley, brings together three separate lives to create one existence in a collection that explores a displaced childhood, misplaced adults and the private moments that map a life.
We were very proud to announce the publication of our first two poetry pamphlets (or chapbooks, if you prefer): Nan Hardwicke Turns into a Hare by Wendy Pratt and Merlin’s Lane by Robert Nisbet. Both have already received high praise.
Phil Carradice, an editor at Roundyhouse Magazine, said of Merlin’s Lane: “Merlin's Lane” is the sort of collection we would all loved to have written. Very few of us ever could. And that's what makes it a fascinating, interesting and evocative read. It is an excellent collection of poetry by an excellent writer.
 In her foreword for Nan Harwicke Turns into a Hare, celebrated poet, Alison Brackenbury wrote: I was astonished by the courage and generosity of this pamphlet. Many poets, finding in their finished work a powerful story of magic, and briefer lyrics of personal loss, would have eked them out into separate publications. But poetry is a drawing together, and Wendy Pratt excels at the deft and moving assembly of her poems’ world... Its final astonishment is that such power can rest within a handful of lyrical stories, like the woman in the frail body of the hare. I left these compassionate poems with admiration and regret.
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Prole is now available from News From Nowhere on Bold Street in Liverpool. Support Prole and your local, independent bookstore by dropping in and seeing what else they have on offer.
Our second Prole Laureate winner has been announced. Read the winning entry and runners up on our poetry competition page here.
We are proud to announce that after only two issues we are in a position to pay our contributors. Our thanks to those who have shown their support by making a purchase, and of course, our wonderful writers and artists who have made Prole such a success.
 What people are saying about Prole
The Crack, March 2012: 'A riveting read.'
Neon Literary Magazine, February 2011.
...(a) subtly hard-hitting collection...
There is much to be admired in the editorial of this collection: these pieces are woven together with an expert flair...
This collection as a whole--at times tragic, harrowing, moving and uplifting--holds within it many little treasures of new writing, and is combined with a care and sensitivity to make it an undoubtedly enthralling read.
New Pages, August 2010: 'This journal is nothing if not challenging and engaging...artful story telling, skilful weaving, compact wording; no literary tricks, twists, surprise endings or jolts to deliver one deep into their vast little worlds...excellent pieces of creative nonfiction. [Of the poetry] ...there is much to be admired.'
The Crack, July 2010: '...it's great to see a quality new publication giving a platform to new writers...and the standard is...excellent.' |