The first generation of Manic Street Preachers Fanzines were stuffed with rather crap poetry. So, 13 years on in 2005, we thought we'd continue the tradition. Missing out the crap bit.

Now with added short stories...

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...

 

The Beast Within by Rachel Chapman
Magic Phil's Lockdown Averse
3 poems by Magic Phil
Balkan Route West
By Rhoda Thomas
The Creature Made of Stars
A Short Story by Chris Bird
Mind by Mike Rosen
The Bluesman by Brad
Bury me with the others
by Ashley Brooklyn
DEPARTURE by Amy Britton
Written Whilst We Were "On A Break" And I Quickly Realised My Error
by Amy Britton
R*E*P*E*A*T A*F*T*E*R U*S
A R*E*P*E*A*T Anthem by Amy Britton

Human Rights
by Roberto Malini - translated by Glenys Robinson

THERE'S A MAN DOWN OUR ROAD WHO'S A NAZI!
by ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER
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