It's been a busy year so far, so your editor is taking a short and well-deserved break. This edition of Snakeskin is a double issue (packed full of goodies), and the next one will appear online on October 1st. The email address will remain alive throughout the two-month span, and contributions will be welcomed at any time. Any subject, any theme. Just make them exciting... George A reminder:  For those who don't get how Snakeskin works - each number of the zine is made up of the contributions sent in during the previous month. We rarely keep poems over to the next issue (and if we do, we let you know about it. We know that there are magazines out there - especially print ones - which take pride in building up a backlog, and keeping poets dangling for months wondering whether they'll be accepted or not. We don't do that. We tell you which month you'll be considered for - and then you're either in it or you're not. We try to notify poets whose work has not been selected, but in some months this requires major effort, and life can get in the way. There's a huge number of rejection notes to be sent this month, but we'll try to get them out within a few days. And we'll try to be positive, where we can. Send those contributions (in the body of an email, please, not as attachments ) to editor@snakeskin.org.uk. George For details of the editor's collection, Old and Bookish, please click on the cover picture below. Two blog posts may be of interest to potential contributors to Snakeskin . The first, on "How Snakeskin Works", explains the simple procedure by which contributions are selected for a month's issue. The second, called "Don't" offers some tips to novice poets, detailing a few of the things that might make an editor take against your work.