Editor: David Allenby
229 Hull Road
Hull U.K
HU6 8QZ
Email:braquemard@hotmail.com
Please note that at the moment I am not accepting any more submissions. This is due to health and financial reasons. If you have sent submissions recently I will eventually reply but please be patient.
Notes for Contributors
The following is more a hint to editorial prejudices and obsessions than a limiting statement .....
How to submit
Submissions and suggestions are always welcome.
As you are reading this on the wonderful wobbly web I assume that you can use e-mail; please include the poems in the text of the message: it makes it easier for me. Note, for security reasons, I will not open attachments to emails without advance notification. Please use a suitable subject title for the e-mail; something like "Submission" or "Poems" will be fine, the reason for this is that some e-mails have ended up in the junk mail for want of a suitable subject.
If you absolutely insist on using surface mail it is important to include an SAE with all work as no reply can be made without one, correspondents from outside UK should use International Reply Coupons (IRC). And, I don't want to nag, but please do write your name and address on each sheet.
Whichever way you chose, please do not send more than 6 or 7 poems at any one time; I don't want to plough through someone's life work.
What sort of poems?
I suppose the best way to find out about a poetry magazine is to read it. Back issues of BRAQUEMARD are available for a small consideration. OK that's the commercial out of the way...
BRAQUEMARD has no style limitations - sonnets, villanelles, haiku etc. as well as free verse have all found a place. I like bad taste, black humour and the sick side of human nature, but it is always the quality of the writing that will decide whether I take it. As to subject matter, politics, religion, ecology and political correctness are avoided as a general rule unless I like the poem that is. I do not want poems that go on about how jolly nice nature or god or whatever is, (sunsets on a beach, I particularly never ever want to read about again). Twee doggerel or embarrassingly awful rhyming rubbish should be sent elsewhere. However, I'm very polite and seldom say your poems are a pile of doo-doo; so try me with your best but you have been warned.
As I want to print people's best efforts I have no objections to publishing previously published poems or to you sending them to more than one magazine whilst I'm making my mind up. While I'm on that subject, I can take ages to decide what poems and illustrations are going in the magazine so be prepared for a long wait. (Feel free to nag me if you think I've taken too long to reply,it probably means I've either not got your stuff or I've lost it in a pile
of papers or I've had bad few months and can't read another poem ...)
Short Stories
Please note; this is IMPORTANT, I am not taking any more short stories for BRAQUEMARD. I have decided that BRAQUEMARD will concentrate on poetry from now on.
Illustrations
A feature of BRAQUEMARD is the illustrations that accompany the writing. For me it is the hardest part of producing the magazine;I often have a full magazine waiting with no suitable illustrations. I have been taking out of copyright pictures from wherever I can find them but I would like to use new line drawings with the text as well. If you're posting pictures they should be no bigger than A4.Again be prepared for me to keep pictures on file for a long time so please do not send original artwork; good quality photocopies will do just fine.
Reviews and Collections
There are no plans at the present to carry reviews of other publications. Please do not send me your life's work, I have no plans to publish collections.
Payment
Payment? Well I can give all contributors a copy of the magazine, (two copies if they ask nicely).
Email:braquemard@hotmail.com
As you are reading this on the wonderful wobbly web I assume that you can use e-mail; please include the poems in the text of the message: it makes it easier for me. Note, for security reasons, I will not open attachments to emails without advance notification. Please use a suitable subject title for the e-mail; something like "Submission" or "Poems" will be fine, the reason for this is that some e-mails have ended up in the junk mail for want of a suitable subject.
If you absolutely insist on using surface mail it is important to include an SAE with all work as no reply can be made without one, correspondents from outside UK should use International Reply Coupons (IRC). And, I don't want to nag, but please do write your name and address on each sheet.
Whichever way you chose, please do not send more than 6 or 7 poems at any one time; I don't want to plough through someone's life work.
BRAQUEMARD has no style limitations - sonnets, villanelles, haiku etc. as well as free verse have all found a place. I like bad taste, black humour and the sick side of human nature, but it is always the quality of the writing that will decide whether I take it. As to subject matter, politics, religion, ecology and political correctness are avoided as a general rule unless I like the poem that is. I do not want poems that go on about how jolly nice nature or god or whatever is, (sunsets on a beach, I particularly never ever want to read about again). Twee doggerel or embarrassingly awful rhyming rubbish should be sent elsewhere. However, I'm very polite and seldom say your poems are a pile of doo-doo; so try me with your best but you have been warned.
As I want to print people's best efforts I have no objections to publishing previously published poems or to you sending them to more than one magazine whilst I'm making my mind up. While I'm on that subject, I can take ages to decide what poems and illustrations are going in the magazine so be prepared for a long wait. (Feel free to nag me if you think I've taken too long to reply,it probably means I've either not got your stuff or I've lost it in a pile of papers or I've had bad few months and can't read another poem ...)
A feature of BRAQUEMARD is the illustrations that accompany the writing. For me it is the hardest part of producing the magazine;I often have a full magazine waiting with no suitable illustrations. I have been taking out of copyright pictures from wherever I can find them but I would like to use new line drawings with the text as well. If you're posting pictures they should be no bigger than A4.Again be prepared for me to keep pictures on file for a long time so please do not send original artwork; good quality photocopies will do just fine.
There are no plans at the present to carry reviews of other publications. Please do not send me your life's work, I have no plans to publish collections.
Payment? Well I can give all contributors a copy of the magazine, (two copies if they ask nicely).
Email:braquemard@hotmail.com
