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Today, we have 70 poems + 11 stories + 3 essays = 84 works by 43 authors

To Ted Burford by Peter Daniels Luczinski

Ted, this is no good at all, we need you.
Anything we come up with is only
a sop to Cerberus, keeping the old
dog in its pram. The afterlife can't be
all of it, my theory is you've gone
to Leeds. Fax us your poem from there,
Ted. Or was that it, the supposed
wrong number, ordering chickens
wholesale? Read it out for us, as if
the lines came at you backwards,
a quiet reminder that words enter
through bathroom windows and odd
crevices, they don't belong to us.
This is no time to disappear. It's dark
and raining, and there's far too much to do

§ Ted Burford, with the late Geoffrey Adkins, was the co-founder of Limestone Magazine. Until about 1997 and after Geoffrey's untimely death, Limestone Magazine was published irregularly on paper, after which Ted found the Web and realised its potential for promoting good poetry and having some fun at the same time. And so the small magazine got a worldwide audience. Ted's son-in-law Trevor Burford-Reade taught Ted the basics of HTML, which he easily grasped, running the Web-version of the magazine with irreverent wit and sagacity for several years. Sadly, Ted died on June 14th 2000. His old literary mucker Ron Taylor took over as Editor. Trevor now designs the magazine and organises the updates. Ron selects the poems. All those who knew Ted still miss him greatly.

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