> Dear Chopped Rodent
>
> I got my copy of Speaking Words in the post today, I am quite bemused at
> that how an anthology with so much financial support manages to look like
> the ultimate piece of crap,
Look, honneybunch, what you're clutching in your hot sweaty little hand is a
+rescue+ attempt by Jonathan Taylor -- the original sent to the printer was
MUCH worse.
By a factor of three.
:-(
And I never actually +taught+ Jon -- dear god in hell, no one I taught could
screw it up quite *that* royally.
[Oh dear christ, I did teach Debs, and she edited it ... ]
And what are you complaining about? You have four poems in the Lunatic
Fiasco.
> I was showing it to several European persons
> tonight and they were bewildered at the ability of the English to make
> rubbish out of something. My own poems haven't suffered too much - one
> prose
> poem has been printed as centered, while another poem has a dropped line
> that isn't supposed to be there, but it could be worse. I haven't dared
> yet
> look at yours in case they might have been butchered.
Oh BOY, you +don't+ want to know.
Look at the top of page of Page 53 -- not often that I'm tempted to indulge
in projectile vomiting, but that pulled me close to it.
On the other hand, it's £4.50 post free, you have four poems in it, and the
stories by Jonathan and Mystie Hood ain't that bad. And Mark Pullinger has
a poem in it too.
Worth the money, really.
R.
(Though god knows why they used a sans serif typeface -- that's the ultimate
in sad.)
> CONGRATULATIONS on your book.
>
> All the Best
>
> Dave
:-P
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