I'm getting jealous. Would like to see Wild Honey more readily available
here in the US.
tom bell
----- Original Message -----
From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 3:23 AM
Subject: Re: Wild Honey
> > I have quite a number of Wild Honey Press books; it's an excellent
> > list. I've always thought they were the ideal way to read poetry,
> > the reading of such lovingly made objects being a sensual and
> > meditative experience which focusses on the _poem_.
> >
>
> Now that get's the nub of something. It is that quality of attentiveness
to
> the poem that is so marked in the Wild Honey books, and precisely what I
> desire of poems as objects in print, on paper. Tactile, focused, and
almost
> like a painting in a good gallery, admitted to be _there_, nestling in its
> occasion.
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
> David Bircumshaw
>
> Leicester, England
>
> Home Page
>
> A Chide's Alphabet
>
> Painting Without Numbers
>
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 5:17 AM
> Subject: Re: Wild Honey
>
>
> > How lovely to log on and see those messages, David and David. I've
> > probably said it before, but I'll say it again: my poetry publishing
> > forays in the past have been somewhat miserable; I have never had a
> > sense of "ah, my book!" holding it in my hand. Until Randolph
> > printed Mnemosyne. It's the most pleased I've ever been. My first
> > experience was Penguin, which put me off publishing anything
> > literally for six years: I was so horrified and disappointed at being
> > on the production line.
> >
> > I have quite a number of Wild Honey Press books; it's an excellent
> > list. I've always thought they were the ideal way to read poetry,
> > the reading of such lovingly made objects being a sensual and
> > meditative experience which focusses on the _poem_.
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Alison
> >
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