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Three Coracles: A Non-Review
Peal, Randall Couch, Coracle Press, 2017, €40.00 Little Critic Pamphlet No.14 Eight Poems, Clere Parsons, 2001, £5.00 tree on the outside, William Minor, Coracle Press, 2010, ISBN 978 0 906630 42 6, £10.00 A parcel from Simon Cutts and Erica van Horn’s Coracle Press containing five items; we’ll come back to that very soon. Anyone… Continue reading
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Who married Isis (on the 5th Day of May)? Expanded Version
The short answer being her brother Osiris, of course, both being the children of Seb (earth) and Nut (sky). Another brother, Set, killed Osiris and hacked him to pieces. Isis gathered his missing body parts, resurrected him, became pregnant with their son Horus and then Osiris went to be king of the Underworld. In The… Continue reading
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Recent Reading April 2024: a Review
Wonder-rig, Lee Duggan, David Annwn, Nigel Bird, Knives Forks and Spoons Press (though I can’t find it on their website), 2024, ISBN: 978-1916590014, £14.40 Yeah, No, Jordan Davis, MadHat Press, 2023, ISBN-13: 978-1-952335-61-7, £17.00 Night Window, Ian Seed, Shearsman Books, 2024, ISBN: 9781848619135, £10.95 Cities Within Us, Peter Taylor, Guernica Editions, 2024, ISBN: 9781771838672, £12.00… Continue reading
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New content on Patreon
Each month I post something on Patreon, where you can support me for 3 euro a month. This month is a version of a Horace ode: Continue reading
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Visual Poetry of Japan: 1684–2023: A Review
Visual Poetry of Japan: 1684–2023, edited by Taylor Mignon, coedited & designed by Rick Elizaga with an introduction by Andrew Campana, Kerplunk!, 2024, ISBN: 979-8218318826 (hardback) 979-8218353551 (paperback) , prices vary, check via here. Sometimes a book drops through the letter box that turns out to be just the one you never knew you needed.… Continue reading
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Six Poems by John Levy
The interesting (and new to me) blog talking about strawberries all of the time have published six pieces by John Levy including one with some personal resonance for me. https://talkingaboutstrawberries.blogspot.com/2024/04/john-levy.html If you don’t know his work, I reviewed his 54 poems here: https://ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2023/10/26/recent-reading-october-2023/ Continue reading
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Recent Reading: March 2024
Lilith Walks, Susan M. Schultz, BlazevVOX, 2022, SKU: 978-1-60964-420-8, $22.00 Meditations: December 2019 – December 2020, lyrical prose, Susan M. Schultz, Wet Cement Press, 2023, ISBN: 979-8-9883840-3-8, $18.00 Edinburgh: poems & translations, Ken Cockburn, The Caseroom Press, 2023 (2nd edition), ISBN 978-1-905821-35-8, £7.00 Christmas Poems, Ken Cockburn. The Caseroom Press, Winter 2023, no further info… Continue reading
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Poets in Prose: A Review of Holy Fool by Henry Gould and The Making of a Pure Poet by Augustus Young
Henry Gould’s memoir, which makes up the opening three quarters of Holy Fool is the story of a young man quite literally on a mission. Set in and around the early to mid 1970s, the memoir takes off from Gould’s escape from a mental hospital following a breakdown while studying in Providence and charts the… Continue reading
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Recent Reading January 2024: A Review
Brushwork, Eric Selland, Isobar Press, 2023, ISBN 978-4-907359-44-7, £17.69 Duets, Iliassa Sequin and The Colour, André du Bouchet (Translated by Iliassa Sequin), Distance On Object, 2023, £15.00 the set Arbor Vitae, Maureen Alsop, Nauset Press, 2023, ISBN-13: 978-1-962890-00-7, $15.99 Doubly Stolen Fire, Robert Sheppard, Aquifer Books, 2023, ISBN: 978-1-7393462-2-5, £11.00 Eric Selland’s Brushworks is a… Continue reading
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Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan – Vol. 2 Yonder Comes Sin: Dylan’s Gospel Period And All of His 1980s Work (The 50th Anniversary Series), Michael Gray: A Review
Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan – Vol. 2 Yonder Comes Sin: Dylan’s Gospel Period And All of His 1980s Work (The 50th Anniversary Series), Michael Gray, The FM Press, 2023, ISBN: 979-8988288718, $22.99 Towards the beginning of the ‘Jokerman’ chapter of this second volume of Michael Gray’s excellent magnum opus,… Continue reading
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