LONDON GRIP DATA LOSS – OUR RESCUE PLAN SO FAR
Following a failed software update at our web hosting company, all items posted on London Grip since Autumn 2023 have been lost. However we will try to repair as much as we can. NOW READ ON …
We still have a few hopes of all the missing posts suddenly being found intact down the side of the sofa! But we have managed to restore the most recent posting of London Grip New Poetry which should be good news for those poets whose work had only just been published when the crash occurred. We are also fairly sure that in time we can restore the nine or ten missing editions of LGNP
At the moment — mid-December — we are trying to revive the most recent of the lost posts where we still have the raw material. Our priority will be posts made during November and early December which hadn’t had much time to gain readers. At this stage we can make no promises about restoring older items since there could be as many as 200 of them and each one of them requires a non-trivial amount of work for formatting and uploading a cover image.
There probably won’t be any new posts on the site till January but you can expect to see restorations popping up as we discover what we can most easily salvage. Do please note that when a post is restored it will not have the same link as it did previously and you may need to find it using the search function on the London Grip site.
At the moment it is still our intention to open the poetry submission window in January with a view to the next posting of new poetry happening on schedule in March. And we hope to be able to receive new film, theatre and poetry reviews early in the new year. We will try to keep readers informed via updates to this post and also via announcements on our Facebook page.
With all good wishes
Michael and Stephen
Dec 9 2025
LONDON GRIP DATA LOSS – OUR RESCUE PLAN SO FAR
Following a failed software update at our web hosting company, all items posted on London Grip since Autumn 2023 have been lost. However we will try to repair as much as we can. NOW READ ON …
We still have a few hopes of all the missing posts suddenly being found intact down the side of the sofa! But we have managed to restore the most recent posting of London Grip New Poetry which should be good news for those poets whose work had only just been published when the crash occurred. We are also fairly sure that in time we can restore the nine or ten missing editions of LGNP
At the moment — mid-December — we are trying to revive the most recent of the lost posts where we still have the raw material. Our priority will be posts made during November and early December which hadn’t had much time to gain readers. At this stage we can make no promises about restoring older items since there could be as many as 200 of them and each one of them requires a non-trivial amount of work for formatting and uploading a cover image.
There probably won’t be any new posts on the site till January but you can expect to see restorations popping up as we discover what we can most easily salvage. Do please note that when a post is restored it will not have the same link as it did previously and you may need to find it using the search function on the London Grip site.
At the moment it is still our intention to open the poetry submission window in January with a view to the next posting of new poetry happening on schedule in March. And we hope to be able to receive new film, theatre and poetry reviews early in the new year. We will try to keep readers informed via updates to this post and also via announcements on our Facebook page.
With all good wishes
Michael and Stephen