Bard is one of the five ongoing print 'zines produced by Atlantean Publishing. It is a single A4 'broadside' sheet folded in three and consists of poetry. A very wide variety of authors has appeared within its covers, as each issue tends toward containing a multiplicity of short works and typically no more than one piece per poet. Bard is approximately monthly (sometimes more or less frequent), and in 2012 celebrated a decade of existence; it has now amassed over 140 issues. It is edited by DJ Tyrer.
Spin-off series
Bard has inspired the solo-poet series The Bards, Yellow Leaves, Xothic Sathlattae and the Xmas Bards, which use the same broadside format.
Covers gallery
See also the Bard Covers Gallery for a side-by-side view of all the illustrations to have graced the front of Bard over the past eleven years, which can be clicked-through to their individual issues.
Issues by year
Complete details — contents lists, front cover scans and assorted trivia facts — have now been uploaded to this wiki for every single issue of Bard (below) from the very first to the most recent.
2002 (4)
2003 (13)
2004 (13)
- Bard 18
- Bard 19
- Bard 20
- Bard 21
- Bard 22
- Bard 23
- Bard 24
- Bard 25
- Bard 26
- Bard 27
- Bard 28
- Bard 29
- Bard 30
2005 (12)
2006 (8)
2007 (11)
2008 (11)
2009 (7)
2010 (11)
2011 (15)
- Bard 91
- Bard 92
- Bard 93
- Bard 94
- Bard 95
- Bard 96
- Bard 97
- Bard 98
- Bard 99
- Bard 100
- Bard 101
- Bard 102
- Bard 103
- Bard 104
- Bard 105
2012 (14)
- Bard 106
- Bard 107
- Bard 108
- Bard 109
- Bard 110
- Bard 111
- Bard 112
- Bard 113
- Bard 114
- Bard 115
- Bard 116
- Bard 117
- Bard 118
- Bard 119
2013 (11)
2014 (13)
- Bard 131
- Bard 132
- Bard 133
- Bard 134
- Bard 135
- Bard 136
- Bard 137
- Bard 138
- Bard 139
- Bard 140
- Bard 141
- Bard 142
- Bard 143
2015 (9)
2016 (9)
2017 (10)
- Bard 162
- Bard 163
- Bard 164
- Bard 165
- Bard 167
- Bard 168
- Bard 169
- Bard 170
- Bard 171
2018 (8)
- Bard 172
- Bard 173
- Bard 174
- Bard 175
- Bard 176
- Bard 177
- Bard 178
- Bard 179
2019 (9)
- Bard 180
- Bard 181
- Bard 182
- Bard 183
- Bard 184
- Bard 185
- Bard 186
- Bard 187
- Bard 188
2020 (4)
- Bard 189
- Bard 190
- Bard 191
- Bard 192
2021 (6)
- Bard 193
- Bard 194
- Bard 195
- Bard 196
- Bard 197
- Bard 198
2022 (-)
- tba
Trivia
- The 'broadside', tri-folded format of Bard was inspired when DJ Tyrer was working in public relations producing flyers in this style and realised how perfect it would be as a format for poetry.
- Despite starting more recently than most of Atlantean Publishing's other 'zines, there have been more issues of Bard than of any other Atlantean publication, with the next highest tally belonging to Awen.
- The slowest complete year of production was 2009, which saw only seven issues appear. In contrast, Bard has more recently gone through a purple patch, with a record fifteen issues appearing in 2011 and fourteen in 2012.
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