The first generation of Manic Street Preachers Fanzines were stuffed with rather crap poetry. So, 13 years on, we thought we'd continue the tradition. Missing out the crap bit.

If you know of a poem you'd like to submit to this page, send it in here. It'd be nice to ask the writer first...

 

ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER CLEANS UP THE CITY
Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog, 1808 by Lord Byron
Born Dead by Joolz Denby
4 Poems by Cotton
THE BOOK OF LONGING HAS DISTURBED MY SLEEP by Julian Gough
Rockerboy/Rockergirl by Jimmy Reject (ok this is fiction, but we don't have a fiction page...)
Grandpa by Jimmy Henry
'Movin fawod to freedom’ Poems by Benjamin Zepheniah and Linton Kwesi Johnson
Lonely Friends by Richard Bull
Why I Prefer Festivals by Paul Francis
Three Songs of the Dead by Mike Rosen
If People Thought Before They Spoke by Thomas Lennard
Only Football by Attila the Stockbroker
Lament For The Moths by Tennessee
Williams
So You Want To Be A Writer by Charles Bukowski
AAsylum Seeking Daleks by Attila The Stockbroker
If I were a Celebrity by Jimmy Henry
For the sleepers in that quiet earth by Lockwood
Ode To The West Wind by P.B. Shelley