Net Verse	Peter Howard
For five years, between 1996 and 2001, I wrote a quarterly column called Net Verse for the UK poetry journal Poetry Review. The column was a brief review of poetry-related websites and other Internet happenings of interest to poets and poetry-lovers. As I was restricted to 300 words per article, this could never hope to be anything other than a snapshot of sites (and newsgroups - though I rarely had anything good to say about those) that had caught my eye or been pointed out to me. Nevertheless, I think it gave readers useful and interesting pointers to places they might visit during a period when the Internet was still viewed with awe and some suspicion by more than a few. I received several comments from people who read and enjoyed my column, even though they didn't have web access. I often had readers suggest that I should have a longer column to give a bit more breadth and depth, but the editor of Poetry Review could never be persuaded to give it to me… (more…)
Article 1 - Spring 1996 - You wouldn't believe the URLs we wore in those days Article 2 - Summer 1996 - Trouble with newsgroups Article 3 - Autumn 1996 - Blimey. This Internet thing really works! Article 4 - Winter 1996/97 - Hypertext poetry Article 5 - Spring 1997 - Sex and search engines Article 6 - Summer 1997 - RIP Allen Ginsberg Article 7 - Autumn 1997 - Science Fiction and Bad Poetry Article 8 - Winter 1997/98 - All British edition Article 9 - Spring 1998 - Chadwyck-Healey and CompuServe's heyday Article 10 - Summer 1998 - Discussions and Dating Agencies Article 11 - Autumn 1998 - Geocities and Lies People Tell Article 12 - Winter 1998/99 - A Periodic Table Article 13 - Spring 1999 - The Australian edition Article 14 - Summer 1999 - Showing promise... Article 15 - Autumn 1999 - Gumball poetry Article 16 - Winter 1999/2000 - The importance of subtitles Article 17 - Spring 2000 - Mainly books and journals Article 18 - Summer 2000 - The breakdown of geography Article 19 - Autumn 2000 - First flight of the Boomerang Article 20 - Winter 2000/2001 - How did I miss that site? Article 21 - Unpublished retrospective

List taken on Tues, 9 Dec 2008 from: http://www.hphoward.demon.co.uk/netverse/netverseindex.html