From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 8:10 AM
Subject: Absolutely nothing to do with Arrowhead Press (was Re: Robin
Hamilton - Pacts and Conjurations - New and Selected Poems)
> Apologies to the Grumpy Grizzly Bear.
And mine too. The thought of changing the subject line did cross my mind
sometime last night, but I forgot. I'm only just awake (ingested my first
intravenous coffee of the day) and have to pack urgently.
I'll try to post Jonathan's publicity release for +Speaking Words+ soon --
though god knows why anyone would buy it after the current discussion.
Looks as if dave got a duff copy (why not take that up with Jonathan? You
might as well try to screw another copy out of him, dave) -- but concur with
the comments on the layout. As, I suspect, would Jonathan -- I hate to
think what it was like before he fired-off last minute corrections. The
widows and orphaned lines were something I know he tried to fix, but by the
time he saw it, 'twas too late.
I'm not sure it would have been that much better if I *had* been involved,
given my previous over cocking-up everything with the Phantom Rooster Press.
(Pre-announcement: Coming shortly, poems by Patrick McManus with
illustrations by Judy Prince.)
An Hasty Dormouse Thing
> My fuming about Speaking Words, dear Rambletone, is increasing by the
> minute.
Please don't spontaneously combust. I doubt if anyone involved is making
much money from this. Certainly not me.
R. Rodent
> One of the things I have noticed that it actually bears the notice
> of copyright for the cover and layout (! - exclamation mark mine) to one
> Linda Young. What I also note is that Jonathan's afterword includes thanks
> to those who were 'tutors in the dayschools' related to the book, and
> concludes with, I quote:
> 'Thanks to the Department of English and Drama, Loughborough University,
> BBC
> Radio Leicester and Monks' Dyke Technology College for the use of their
> resources and space. Thanks to Loughborough University Arts Centre for
> their
> help with publicity. And, of course, thanks to the Awards for All scheme
> of
> the National Lottery who funded the project.'
>
> Now, concerning this project, Rob, my involvement consisted of being asked
> to submit up to 4 poems, which I did, and 4 poems appeared (how did you
> get
> 6 btw?) but I discover that people have being doing workshops (paid) and
> what not else (paid) on our backs (recall, you and I are the star turns in
> the book). Something is seriously wrong somewhere.
>
> All the Best
>
> Dave
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