Bard

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)===
*Bard 1
*Bard 2
*Bard 3
*Bard 4
===2003 (13)===
*Bard 5
*Bard 6
*Bard 7
*Bard 8
*Bard 9
*Bard 10
*Bard 11
*Bard 12
*Bard 13
*Bard 14
*Bard 15
*Bard 16
*Bard 17
===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)===
*Bard 31
*Bard 32
*Bard 33
*Bard 34
*Bard 35
*Bard 36
*Bard 37
*Bard 38
*Bard 39
*Bard 40
*Bard 41
*Bard 42
===2006 (8)===
*Bard 43
*Bard 44
*Bard 45
*Bard 46
*Bard 47
*Bard 48
*Bard 49
*Bard 50
===2007 (11)===
*Bard 51
*Bard 52
*Bard 53
*Bard 54
*Bard 55
*Bard 56
*Bard 57
*Bard 58
*Bard 59
*Bard 60
*Bard 61
===2008 (11)===
*Bard 62
*Bard 63
*Bard 64
*Bard 65
*Bard 66
*Bard 67
*Bard 68
*Bard 69
*Bard 70
*Bard 71
*Bard 72
===2009 (7)===
*Bard 73
*Bard 74
*Bard 75
*Bard 76
*Bard 77
*Bard 78
*Bard 79
===2010 (11)===
*Bard 80
*Bard 81
*Bard 82
*Bard 83
*Bard 84
*Bard 85
*Bard 86
*Bard 87
*Bard 88
*Bard 89
*Bard 90
===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)===
*Bard 120
*Bard 121
*Bard 122
*Bard 123
*Bard 124
*Bard 125
*Bard 126
*Bard 127
*Bard 128
*Bard 129
*Bard 130
===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)===
*Bard 144
* Bard 145
* Bard 146
* Bard 147
* Bard 148
* Bard 149
* Bard 150
* Bard 151
* Bard 152
=== 2016 (9)===
*Bard 153
*Bard 154
*Bard 155
*Bard 156
*Bard 157
*Bard 158
*Bard 159
*Bard 160
*Bard 161
=== 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
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==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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