So the third issue of Salt Publishing's online literary journal, Horizon Review , has just been published. Edited by Jane Holland , it's a fascinating, varied, sometimes even satisfyingly infuriating read, and builds on the strengths of its previous issues, proving it can easily compete with the best of the printed mags. Issue 3 includes new poems by David Morley , Helen Ivory , Barbara Smith , Claire Crowther and Sam Riviere ; reviews of many recent collections including Hugo Williams ' West End Final , Carrie Etter 's The Tethers , and a particularly excellent review of Don Paterson 's Rain by John McCullough ; and a series of interviews, the most interesting, contentious and quotable of these being Vidyan Ravinthiran in conversation with Craig Raine . In fact, I might well post a separate discussion of some of the stuff which Raine has to say here, finding as I did some bits eminently sensible, some disagreeably caustic, and some just downright antagonistic (
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