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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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Recent Reading December 2023: A Review
Mattered by Tangents, Tim Allen, Contraband Books, 2023, £12.00 Like Now, J-T Kelly, CCCP Chapbooks + Subpress, 2023, $10.00 Chicatanas: Selected Poems, Mark Statman, CCCP Chapbooks + Subpress, 2023, $10.00 Extended Stay: Selected Poems, Ty Holter, CCCP Chapbooks + Subpress, 2023, $10.00 Preloved Metaphors, Rupert M Loydell, The Red Ceilings Press, 2023, £9.00 Tim Allen’s… Continue reading
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The Kobe Hotel: Memoirs, Sanki Saitō trans. Masaya Saito: A Review
The Kobe Hotel: Memoirs, Sanki Saitō trans. Masaya Saito, Isobar Press, 2023, ISBN 978-4-907359-45-4, £12.99 Masaya Saito’s translation of Sanki Saitō’s Kobe and Kobe Sequel in a single volume can, in a sense, be read as a companion piece to his wonderful Selected Haiku 1933–1962, particularly as it helps the reader understand the shift in Sanki’s practice… Continue reading
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Recent Reading November 2023
Ƨ, Tom Blake, Red Ceilings Press, 2023, £9.00 EtC, Laura Mullen, Solid Objects, 2023, ISBN-13 978-1-7332323-2-6, $18.00 tentatives, Ellen Dillon, Pamenar Press, 2023, ISBN: 978-1915341082, £15.00 Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel, Ellen Dillon, HVTN Press, 2023, ISBN 978-1838311841, £10.99 The Green Radius, Henry Gould, 2023, no publisher or price given World’s End, rob mclennan, ARP… Continue reading
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