What kind of work the Editor looks for:

• Poems that are deeply felt and well-crafted
• Essays/reviews that are challenging, original and well-constructed.

It is hoped to develop a lively critical forum within the pages of Agenda and online.

What kind of work the Editor would like to see less of:

• Oversentimental, cliché-ridden poetry; poetry with dumdidum rhymes that boss the poet into using particular words just for the sake of the pat rhymes; poetry that is badly crafted and too prosaic, and poetry that does not come from the heart
• Essays/reviews that use academic jargon ad nauseam, have too few examples, too few quotations.
• Essays that are too obsequious, too obviously pandering to the writer in question.

Up to fifty poems are published in an issue, depending on whether it is a double or a single issue, and up to as many as 20 books are reviewed. Several essays are usually included also. Around 25 poems appear on each online Broadsheet.

Send no more than six poems or two essays/reviews, with address,e-mail address,age and a short biography.

Submissions for the magazine and for the online Broadsheets should be sent in the first instance by post with a large stamped addressed envelope to the Editor, and, important, your email address.

Patricia McCarthy
The Wheelwrights
Fletching Street
Mayfield
East Sussex
TN20 6TL

Submissions cannot be returned unless accompanied by a large stamped addressed envelope.

All submissions are read and returned as soon as possible.

As a general rule we do not accept previously published material.