Tears in the Fence is a triannual British literary journal edited by David Caddy.

Background

English Poet and writer, David Caddy and Harry Seccombe founded Tears in the Fence in November 1984, as a literary magazine for the Green Movement

Green Movement

The Green Movement refers to a series of actions after the 2009 Iranian presidential election, in which protesters demanded the removal of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from office...

. Sarah Hopkins, who was also Literary Editor of Spare Rib at that time and co-author of Greenham Common: Women at the Wire (Women’s Press 1984), soon joined them. It is widely recognised as an internationally flavoured literary magazine of distinction with editorial contributors in the USA, Paris, France and Melbourne, Australia. Regular columnists include David Caddy, Sarah Hopkins, Tom Chivers

Tom Chivers

Tom Chivers is a British poet, editor and live literature promoter.Born 1983 in South London, he was educated at Dulwich College and then at St Anne's College, Oxford University. He currently lives in East London....

, Jennifer K. Dick and Rosie Jackson.

Beginning from an ecological and feminist perspective, the magazine deepened and developed its thinking on this path. It rapidly built upon its early internationalist outlook and international following. It was the first U.K. magazine to publish American poets and writers, such as Sheila E. Murphy, Gerald Locklin

Gerald Locklin

Gerald Locklin is an American poet who is a Professor Emeritus of English at California State University, Long Beach and the poetry editor of Chiron Review...

, Ed Ochester

Ed Ochester

Edwin Frank Ochester is an American poet and editor.Born September 15 in Brooklyn, New York, he was educated at Cornell University, Harvard University, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison....

, Donna Hilbert

Donna Hilbert

Donna Hilbert is an American poet who also writes short stories, plays, and essays. As a founding member of the in Long Beach, California, she is also known for her commitment to social justice, philanthropy and community arts programs....

, Fred Voss, as well as regularly publishing Edward Field

Edward Field

-Biography:Field was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Lynbrook, Long Island, New York, where he played cello in the Field Family Trio, which had a weekly radio program on WGBB Freeport...

 and Paul Violi

Paul Violi

Paul Randolph Violi was an American poet born in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Splurge, Fracas, The Curious Builder, Likewise, and most recently Overnight...

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Regular contributors include poets associated with the British Poetry Revival

British Poetry Revival

The British Poetry Revival is the general name given to a loose poetry movement in Britain that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. The revival was a modernist-inspired reaction to the Movement's more conservative approach to British poetry.-Beginnings:...

 including Lee Harwood

Lee Harwood

Lee Harwood is a poet associated with the British Poetry Revival.-Life:Travers Rafe Lee Harwood was born in Leicester to maths teacher Wilfred Travers Lee-Harwood and Grace Ladkin Harwood, who were then living in Chertsey, Surrey...

, Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair FRSL is a British writer and filmmaker. Much of his work is rooted in London, most recently within the influences of psychogeography.-Life and work:...

, Bill Griffiths

Bill Griffiths

Bill Griffiths was a poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar associated with the British Poetry Revival.-Overview:...

, John James, Jeremy Reed

Jeremy Reed

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 and associate editor, Brian Hinton

Brian Hinton

Brian Hinton, MBE is an English poet and musicologist. In June 2006 he was honoured in H. M. the Queen’s Birthday Honours List with an MBE for services to the Arts.-Education:...

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