Welcome to the website of Mimesis, the journal of poetry, artwork and opinion.

A truly international venture, we are interested in publishing the best work we can, from old and new names alike.
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• The Mimesis Digital Chapbook Initiative
The chapbooks from the 2008 competition are now up and available for your perusal.
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Subscriptions start as low as £14, with free postage and packaging to the UK and the US.
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Out now! Poems from Chris Astwood, Alison Brackenbury, J. P. Dancing Bear, Kathryn Pilles-Genaw, Rupert Loydell, Rob A. Mackenzie, Alan Jude Moore, Richard Moorhead, Paul Muldoon, John Murphy, Eleanor Rees, Barbara Smith, Nathan Thompson, Simon Turner, Christian Ward and Leon Weinmann. Plus: Robert Archambeau writes about writing the impossible; Jon Stone goes in search of the burlesque in British contemporary poetry;
Luke Kennard’s essay “John Ash and the New Symbolism” is concluded. Artwork from Joiton, Michael Costello, Vivian Coyne and Dace Lucia Kalpisa.