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	Acumen: Issue 60 by Oxley, Patricia (Ed.) Acumen places an emphasis on publishing a wide range of poetry both in style and in its poets. Work is considered from both established and talented newcomers, on an equal basis. £4.50		Acumen: Issue 59 by Oxley, Patricia (Ed.) Acumen places an emphasis on publishing a wide range of poetry both in style and in its poets. Work is considered from both established and talented newcomers, on an equal basis. £4.50

Acumen: n. the ability to judge well; insight.

Acumen is a literary journal that places an emphasis on poetry. The magazine is edited by Patricia Oxley who herself is not a writer but a reader of poetry. She has been editing the magazine for eighteen years and has taken it into the twenty-first century with some of the best poetry and criticism being written today. Acumen publishes a varied and impressive list of poets and critics.

The magazine is also known to be on the lookout for the new and unknown of all ages - in the search for fresh talent and quality work. Published three times a year (January, May and September) in A5 perfect bound, with at least 120pp per issue, the magazine contains approximately 50 new poems (including translations), reviews, poetry comment, and reader feedback. The critical articles aim to be well written and readable which, we hope, will set the reader thinking and promote discussion within the correspondence columns of the magazine.

'Acumen mixes poems and prose by celebrated and new writers who have something to say and say it well.'
Dannie Abse

'I consider Acumen to be educationally essential.'
Abi Hughes-Edwards (The New Writer)

'Acumen deserves to be read for its first hand experience of poetry. The work it does is the opposite of academic and therefore valuable.'
Hugo Williams (winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 1999)

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