We are back!

There has been a long hiatus since the last issue, and you, our readers, must have been wondering if we had gone offline. Not quite, not yet. However, let me update you on the why's and hows.

This issue was due in December 07, and I was just getting ready for that when my father succumbed to 'sudden death'. My mother took unwell soon after, and in March this year she, too, passed away. It has taken me a while to re-organize my life, and I am glad that late or not, I have finally been able to make it.

Now for the update on the proposed print edition. As can be expected, things were put on the back burner over the past few months, and our tentative date had to be deferred. We are now looking at March 2009 for the first issue to hit the stands. We would ask our contributors to henceforth include a disclaimer for one-time printing and publishing rights in favour of the Quill & Ink if they wish to be featured in the offline edition as well.

We will keep you updated on our progress.

We also request our readers to visit www.rimbaud.org.uk. The editor, Dee Rimbaud, has been doing a tremendous job of listing a comprehensive guide to online and offline publishers worldwide. Sadly, constraints and commitments in his personal life means that without financial support, the guide may soon need to be pulled off. So please visit the site, and if you feel so inclined, donate towards what is one man's struggle to build a compendium of resources for aspiring writers.

Enough talk. Now read:

Poetry from Les Wicks

Book Review Awaiting the Green Morning

Lisa Zaran's Verses

Lunacy - the four act play by Joe Reese

Davide Trame's Poems

Plus, there is more poetry and prose inside

~ Anirban