In Sphinx 3: 

•  how novelist/poet James Robertson set up the Scottish chapbook imprint Kettillonia

• an interview with Ross Bradshaw of Five Leaves

• the whys and wherefores of the exclusive Greville Press

Plus:

• news—Poetry Monthly Chapbook Competition bites the dust

• reviews of recent pamphlets, both published and self-published, prize-winners and unknowns.

• clues—find out what the Sphinx thinks….

“I might be tempted to ask what it is all about—but why should I disturb the surface of what is clearly a mind more far-out than most? Weirdness wins, every time.” (Peter Burnett on Steve Sneyd)

Website reviews to accompany publication of Sphinx Issue 3:

• Richard Livermore, Sweet Nothings, Chanticleer Press

• Donald Smith, Some to Thorns, Some to Thistles, Akros Publications, 2005

• Gerry Bradshaw and Julie MacPherson, Shake-out Glamour, Dreadful Night Press, 2005

• Pat Earnshaw, Gothic Tales, Gorse Publications, 2005

• Alan Gay, Songs of Sorrow, Bullseye Publications, 2003

• Chloe Morrish, The Three Little Ninjas,Dreadful Night Press, 2005

• Donald S Murray, Between Minch and Muckleflugga, Kettilonia, 2005

• James Muir, Legacy, Leven Books, 2005

• Eleanor Livingstone, The Last King of Fife,HappenStance Press, 2005

• Susan Barnard, Bed and Bandages, August Press, 2005

• William Gault Bonar, Frostburn Steel, Dreadful Night Press, 2004

• Susan McCormick, A Slant of the Sun, Flarestack, 2005

• Liz Atkin, Still, Flarestack, 2005

• Rose Cook, Casting Off

• Mandy Haggith, Letting in Light, Essence Press, 2005

• Tim Beech, A Solitary Pine Tree in Sussex, Pigdog Press, 2005

• Rob A Mackenzie, The Clown of Natural Sorrow, HappenStance Press, 2005

• Kelvin Corcoran, Roger Hilton's Sugar, Leafe Press, 2005

• Cliff Yates, Emergency Rations, Smith/Doorstop, 2005

• Jessy Randall, Because Mona is in the Psychiatric Hospital, Pudding House Publications, 2005

• Jonathan Attrill, Lateral History, Poetry Monthly, 2005

• Mark Sonnenfeld &Gindy Elizabeth Houston, Bitter-sweet, and John B Michel, Monday Morning Over the World, Hilltop Press, 2004

• Robert Roberts, Precarious Footholds, a Final Selection, Pikestaff Press, 2005