Welcome to the CHAINLINK archive

Welcome to the Chainlink Magazine Archive

Chainlink Magazine ran from May to December 2025 and was an attempt by Neil Fulwood and Shaun Belcher to do something different in poetry magazine terms.

All previous published material on chainlink is archived here.

Three factors combined to lead to closing what was CL (cannot use word) Towers .

For the second time substack closed down the CL related review and it turned out that the word CL is in fact related to a insidious spam and phishing technique and has led to us being blocked across platforms. I communicated with substack and all good now as long as we do not use that term.
The only reference is in the use of images related to that theme.
Our hard-working editor found himself under the same pressures that led to the closing of the monthly readings i.e. not enough hours in the day to drive a bus and edit a magazine. So sadly Neil has become a contributor instead. In 8 months CL ran he brought in some wonderful material ALL of which is archived here.
Before we reached this point we had realised that a general culture magazine that covered literature, film, music etc etc was just too wide a remit for such a small staff.
It also led to confusion about what CL actually was. To address this we have split the old material into two seperate websites. Like children we don’t prefer one over the other it just a way of organising material. This website acts as the official Chainlink Archive of LITERARY MATERIAL.

The Music and Film material continues to live on at new website TRACKS.

https://www.openbook.org.uk/NLR

The old classical music, music and film related items now safe as a haunted house at the new TRACKS website ( a nod to Neil’s obsession with small steam engines and pieces of Hornby track) the image below an early mock front page which shows that theme.

Both are now housed on the Open Book website which is where we started.

https://www.openbook.org.uk

https://www.openbook.org.uk/tracks