April is National Poetry Month. To mark this occasion we have searched SUNCAT for weird and wonderful poetry titles. There are so many that we thought that we would have two instalments!

• The Amaranth. A Semi – Monthly Publication, Devoted to
  Polite Literature, Science, Poetry and Amusement.
• Amethyst arsenic : poetry and art.
• Bad poetry quarterly.
• The comic almanack : an ephemeris in jest and ernest
  containing merry tales, humourous poetry, quips, and
  oddities / by Thackeray, Albert Smith, Gilbert à Beckett, the Brothers
  Mayhew … ; illustrations by George Cruikshank and other artists.
• Full of Crow poetry.
• Half drunk muse.
• The illustrated ape : fiction, pictures, poetry, pop!.
• The long grass waving : poetry
  and prose from members of the after school clubs at Ironville & Codnor Park
  Primary school.
• Meat plough : the journal of trangressive poetry and art.
• Miscellanies over claret, or, the friends to the tavern, the
  best friends to poetry being a collection of
  poems, translations, etc. to be continued monthly from the Rose-Tavern without
  Temple-Bar.
• A narrow fellow : journal of poetry.
• Oddrot : the journal of funny bizarre and subversive poetry.
• Parody: poetry for the world as it really is.
• Poetry of my shoulders.
• Wheels : a vehicle for modern poetry.
• xStream.
• Averse to poetry.
• Beyond bones.
• Dark lady poetry.
• Literal latté.
• Hearse : a vehicle used to convey the dead.
• Mastodon dentist : a poetry magazine.
• Message from nowhere = Message de nulle part : collection of
  poetry, drawings & criticism / edited by E.L.T. Mesens.
• Risk behaviour : poems from the Poetry business competition.
• Affection’s keepsake.
• The bitter oleander.
• Bo heem e um.
• Bright pink mosquito.
• Penny dreadful : tales and poems of fantastic terror.
• Random acts of writing.

Look out for our next instalment of weird and wonderful poetry titles later this month.

• The Cold spring journal.
• British Easter SF Convention programme book.

• Yogi Bear Easter special.

• The duty of doing good recommended and press’d In a sermon
  preach’d March 30th 1711. Being Good-Friday, in the parish-church of St.
  Michael lè Belfreys, in the city of York; upon occasion of the
  charity-schools. By William Stainforth, …
• The ’Pink ’un’ Spring annual, 1914, ed. by W.F. De Wend
  Fenton. Real jam; or, The Pink ’un pill for pale people.
• Spring fling.
• The Spring-Garden journal. By Miss Priscilla Termagant,
  (a near relation of the late Mrs. Roxana.)
• Spring into summer.
• The Spring warbler : a choice collection of favourite songs.
• Walt Disney’s spring fever.

Today (8th March) is International Women’s Day. To celebrate we have selected some weird and wonderful titles with the theme of women. Many of these titles can be found at the Women’s Library, which is now part of the London School of Economics and Political Science. The Women’s Library “is Europe’s largest collection of material relating to the lives of women, as well as being a key part of British heritage.”

• Ain’t I a woman? : a Midwest newspaper of women’s liberation
• Battleaxe : the new labour movement paper for women
• Double shift: working women’s newsletter
• Girl frenzy : by women for people
• Listen real loud : news of women’s liberation worldwide
• Myra’s journal of dress and fashion.
• Msprint : a Scottish feminist publication
• New mango season : Caribbean women’s writing
• Power of women : magazine of the International Wages for
  Housework Campaign
• Red letter : for women who love good stories
• Scope : magazine of the Women’s Gas Federation and Young
  Homemakers
• The scarlet women : or, revolt : newletter of the socialist
  current in the women’s liberation movement
• Skirting through history : the her-story newsletter for all
  women
• WHAM! : women, heritage and museums           
• Wilpower : Women in Libraries newsletter.
• Women : listen to your mothers, don’t succumb to the wishes
  of your brothers, take a step back.
• Among women : the awesome power of woman.
• Driven to Madness, or the Vengeance of a Jealous Woman, etc. [A tale.]
• I.M. cowgirl : the life of the western woman.
• Sloane ideas for the urbane woman .
• Whomanwarp.
• You go girl an e-zine for the mid-life woman.
• The Woman’s Dreadnought
  : Published by the East London Federation of the Suffragettes .(by the
  Workers’ Suffrage Federation) – Edited by Sylvia Pankhurst.
• Aunt Edna’s reading list.

For more titles related to women and other weird and wonderful serials take at look in SUNCAT.