There's a pretty complete obit on line that Dan Sendecki is going to
link to on the ahadada site. The title of his book is Echoes and it's
from Rigby & Lewis. Peter Riley used to have a copy or two, but I
understand that he now is not running the store. Alan halsey, actually,
might be able to locate a copy for you. Casey really didn't publish
much. Just some translations and the long David-Jones like South Wales
Echoes. His wife was more prolific but not at all as good a poet as he
is. There's also a collection of his letters available. i think he's
an important writer. Hope to see you on the 19th! Jesse
On 8/2/2006, "BRITISH-POETS automatic digest system"
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>There are 6 messages totalling 744 lines in this issue.
>
>Topics of the day:
>
> 1. Finally! Gerard Casey Page Up At Ahadada Books
> 2. Finally! Gerard Casey Page Up At Ahadada Books
> 3. Have been 'away' but
> 4. Jesse Glass reading
> 5. Tom Beckett's UNPROTECTED TEXTS: SELECTED POEMS (1978~2006)
> 6. The Ducks of Cotton Mather
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 12:56:59 +0900
>From: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Finally! Gerard Casey Page Up At Ahadada Books
>
>Gerard Casey's fantastic South Wales Echo is up at www.ahadadabooks.com.
> Please take a look. Casey is one of my favorite writers. Thanks to
>Louise de Bruin, Casey's literary executor for permission to republish.
> Jess
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 08:40:15 +0000
>From: ian davidson <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Finally! Gerard Casey Page Up At Ahadada Books
>
>Thanks for this Jesse. I hadn't seen this work before and I should have
>done.
>
>Interesting that it takes someone on the other side of the world to point me
>to something just down the road.
>
>I did a Google search on Casey but came up with very little. Have you got
>any other information about him? Or can you point me in the right direction?
>
>Ian
>
>
>>From: [log in to unmask]
>>Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Finally! Gerard Casey Page Up At Ahadada Books
>>Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 12:56:59 +0900
>>
>>Gerard Casey's fantastic South Wales Echo is up at www.ahadadabooks.com.
>> Please take a look. Casey is one of my favorite writers. Thanks to
>>Louise de Bruin, Casey's literary executor for permission to republish.
>> Jess
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 10:19:28 -0400
>From: mairead byrne <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Have been 'away' but
>
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>Dear Rupert,
>
>Welcome back! You are one busy man! Noticing your hesitation at the end o=
>f
>your post, regarding the appropriateness of posting all this verve to a
>poetry list: I think you should get yourself to the SoundEye Festival next
>year! The Caucus connection at SoundEye, and other visual arts, music, and
>book arts, might prove very compatible to you -- and you would have great
>stuff to bring too. What do you think? The relief of SoundEye, for me, is
>that it's hospitable to & active in its engagement with a range of arts, &
>with the city of Cork. Even if it's a model rather than a reality
>sometimes, it's still energising: just the openness & appetite & utter
>confidence in poetry. Poetry seems to be in & out of all your involvements=
>:
>keep the news & views coming & GOOD LUCK.
>
>Mairead
>
>P.S. The Carrboro Festival in North Carolina has something of the local
>commitment of SoundEye.
>
>
>On 7/31/06, mallin1 <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all, from Rupert (the one who didn't get into 6th form!)
>>
>> I've been 24/7 into work - from the production of a show with my students
>> who have severe learning difficulties to working on a four artist project
>> with young people in Norfolk (that's East Anglia). I saved the latter via=
> my
>> youth worker training/experience and reckon we've a partial model of work=
>ing
>> with 12-19 year olds that isn't just token empowerment but a way of movin=
>g
>> them from participants into advocates - via film, visuals and poetry.
>> Inbetween I ran youth writing workshops with the BBC Blast 'train' which
>> visited Norwich recently.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> I'm also 'fire fighting' to put our artists/poets InPrint group of ten
>> (drawn from across East Anglia) on a more involving and evolving plain (o=
>r
>> plane); and the Gt. Yarmouth ARC artists group, of which I'm a member, is
>> looking to set up a flexible arts space in the town. There's a strong
>> possibility I'll be involved in a large project with the Burston Strike
>> School (was the longest strike in history), while I've just stumbled upon=
> a
>> brilliant little poetry group in Lowestoft.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> Lowestoft is the working class town where I live set in the rural
>> constituency of Waveney. Our horrible council has just commissioned someo=
>ne
>> to write a 'cultural strategy' for the area. I've worked in the arts and =
>the
>> community for over 25 years and it is the worst and most terrible documen=
>t
>> of its kind I've ever had the sadness to encounter. You'd think there wou=
>ld
>> be the wit there to consult cultural and arts groups and organisations, l=
>et
>> alone the community. Not a bit of it: the 56 page document is written out
>> of 'documentation' from the partner organisations of our council!
>>
>> So, for film provision, there are locations for film companies!
>> Poetry? No. Ironically the writer of the report includes reference to the
>> amazing community theatre, The Seagull Theatre. It was amazing -
>> but undercover of Lowestoft's gas-guzzling Air Show last week, they've no=
>t
>> only closed the theatre but boarded it up too! The 'cultural strategy' wa=
>s
>> written to acquire large scale Arts Council funding. The place needs that
>> funding. But the rabid parochialism on high should deny this funding. Our
>> Labour MP Bob Blizzard wants to chain this town in parochialism - despite
>> regularly turning up at Ronnie Scott's in town; and the leader of our Tor=
>y
>> district council is Blizzard's cultural double but even more corruptible.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> In the light of US/UK/Israel genocide taking place, this may seem like
>> small beer. Yet, Bob Blizzard MP claimed over =A3100,000 in expenses last
>> year - for nothing. He has not even got a view anymore. This is the Blair
>> Poodle Machine going on at every level. And, if you're looking for
>> Regeneration Funding, a lot of this is already going to the 2012 Olympics=
>..
>> Get out the drugs.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> Yet, I'm very excited. I've an incredible idea for a huge community
>> project, culminating in a giant 'sculpture' for the East Coast (involving
>> all art forms) that I'm entering for the Jerwood Open - up to =A3500,000 =
>on
>> offer. Yes, everyone's putting in a bid - and you can too.
>>
>> And I'm also very excited that we're celebrating Black History month in
>> Get Yarmouth through the Autumn; and that an older 'hippy' friend of mine=
> is
>> setting up a multi-cultural carnival and world music event in GY next yea=
>r
>> (once, the base for the National Front).
>>
>> ***
>>
>> Hope it's ok me posting this on a poetry list. For me, this is also
>> poetry. I think this work will create poetry.
>>
>> Love, Rupert
>>
>
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><div>Dear Rupert,</div>
><div> </div>
><div>Welcome back! You are one busy man! Noticing your hesitati=
>on at the end of your post, regarding the appropriateness of posting all th=
>is verve to a poetry list: I think you should get yourself to th=
>e SoundEye Festival next year! The Caucus connection at SoundEye, and=
> other visual arts, music, and book arts, might prove very compatible =
>to you -- and you would have great stuff to bring too. What do you th=
>ink? The relief of SoundEye, for me, is that it's hospitable to &=
> active in its engagement with a range of arts, & with the city of Cork=
>.. Even if it's a model rather than a reality sometimes, it's still en=
>ergising: just the openness & appetite & utter confidence in poetry=
>.. Poetry seems to be in & out of all your involvements: keep the =
>news & views coming & GOOD LUCK.
></div>
><div> </div>
><div>Mairead</div>
><div> </div>
><div>P.S. The Carrboro Festival in North Carolina has something of the loca=
>l commitment of SoundEye.<br><br> </div>
><div><span class=3D"gmail_quote">On 7/31/06, <b class=3D"gmail_sendername">=
>mallin1</b> <<a href=3D"mailto:[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]<=
>/a>> wrote:</span>
><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0=
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><div>
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><div><font face=3D"Arial">Hi all, from Rupert (the one who didn't get into =
>6th form!)</font></div>
><div><font face=3D"Arial"></font> </div>
><div><font face=3D"Arial">I've been 24/7 into work - from the production of=
> a show with my students who have severe learning difficulties to working o=
>n a four artist project with young people in Norfolk (that's East Anglia). =
>I saved the latter via my youth worker training/experience and reckon we've=
> a partial model of working with 12-19 year olds that isn't just token empo=
>werment but a way of moving them from participants into advocates - via fil=
>m, visuals and poetry. Inbetween I ran youth writing workshops with th=
>e BBC Blast 'train' which visited Norwich recently.
></font></div>
><div><font face=3D"Arial"></font> </div>
><div><font face=3D"Arial">***</font></div>
><div><font face=3D"Arial"></font> </div>
><div><font face=3D"Arial">I'm also 'fire fighting' to put our artists/poets=
> InPrint group of ten (drawn from across East Anglia) on a more involv=
>ing and evolving plain (or plane); and the Gt. Yarmouth ARC artists group, =
>of which I'm a member, is looking to set up a flexible arts space in the to=
>wn. There's a strong possibility I'll be involved in a large project with t=
>he Burston Strike School (was the longest strike in history), while I've ju=
>st stumbled upon a brilliant little poetry group in Lowestoft.
></font></div>
><div><font face=3D"Arial"></font> </div>
><div><font face=3D"Arial">***</font></div>
><div><font face=3D"Arial"></font> </div>
><div><font face=3D"Arial">Lowestoft is the working class town where I live =
>set in the rural constituency of Waveney. Our horrible council has just com=
>missioned someone to write a 'cultural strategy' for the area. I've worked =
>in the arts and the community for over 25 years and it is the worst and mos=
>t terrible document of its kind I've ever had the sadness to encounter. You=
>'d think there would be the wit there to consult cultural and arts gro=
>ups and organisations, let alone the community. Not a bit of it: the 56 pag=
>e document is written out of 'documentation' from the partner organisa=
>tions of our council!
></font></div>
><div> </div>
><div><font face=3D"Arial">So, for film provision, there are locations =
>for film companies! Poetry? No. Ironically the writer of the report in=
>cludes reference to the amazing community theatre, The Seagull Theatre=
>.. It was amazing - but undercover of Lowestoft's gas-guzzling Air=
> Show last week, they've not only closed the theatre but boarded it up too!=
> The 'cultural strategy' was written to acquire large scale Arts =
>Council funding. The place needs that funding. But the rabid parochialism o=
>n high should deny this funding. Our Labour MP Bob Blizzard wants to c=
>hain this town in parochialism - despite regularly turning up at Ronnie Sco=
>tt's in town; and the leader of our Tory district council is Blizzard'=
>s cultural double but even more corruptible.
></font></div>
><div> </div>
><div><font face=3D"Arial">***</font></div>
><div> </div>
><div><font face=3D"Arial">In the light of US/UK/Israel genocide taking plac=
>e, this may seem like small beer. Yet, Bob Blizzard MP claimed over =A3100,=
>000 in expenses</font> <font face=3D"Arial">last year - for nothing. H=
>e has not even got a view anymore. This is the Blair Poodle Machine going o=
>n at every level. And, if you're looking for Regeneration Funding, a lot of=
> this is already going to the 2012 Olympics. Get out the drugs.
></font></div>
><div><font face=3D"Arial"></font> </div>
><div><font face=3D"Arial">***</font></div>
><div><font face=3D"Arial"></font> </div>
><div><font face=3D"Arial">Yet, I'm very excited. I've an incredible idea fo=
>r a huge community project, culminating in a giant 'sculpture' for the East=
> Coast (involving all art forms) that I'm entering for the Jerwood Open - u=
>p to =A3500,000 on offer. Yes, everyone's putting in a bid - and you can to=
>o.
></font></div>
><div><font face=3D"Arial"></font> </div>
><div><font face=3D"Arial">And I'm also very excited that we're celebrating =
>Black History month in Get Yarmouth through the Autumn; and that an older '=
>hippy' friend of mine is setting up a multi-cultural carnival and world mus=
>ic event in GY next year (once, the base for the National Front).
></font></div>
><div><font face=3D"Arial"></font> </div>
><div><font face=3D"Arial">***</font></div>
><div><font face=3D"Arial"></font> </div>
><div><font face=3D"Arial">Hope it's ok me posting this on a poetry list. Fo=
>r me, this is also poetry. I think this work will create poetry.</font></di=
>v>
><div><font face=3D"Arial"></font> </div>
><div><font face=3D"Arial">Love, Rupert</font></div></div></div></blockquote=
>></div><br>
>
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>Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 17:11:28 +0100
>From: Geraldine Monk <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Jesse Glass reading
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>West House Books &
>Broken Compass Press
>
>present a reading by
>
>Jesse Glass
>
>to launch his collection
>
>'The Passion of Phineas Gage & Selected Poems'
>
>joining him will be=20
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>
>Saturday 19th August=20
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>Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 19:45:14 +0200
>From: Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Tom Beckett's UNPROTECTED TEXTS: SELECTED POEMS (1978~2006)
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>UNPROTECTED TEXTS: SELECTED POEMS (1978~2006)
>Poems by Tom Beckett
>Release Date: Fall 2006
>No. of Pages: 180
>Price: $19.95
>Distributor: Small Press Distribution (www.spdbooks.org), Amazon.com
>Contact: [log in to unmask]
>
>Meritage Press is pleased to announce the release of Tom Beckett's long =
>overdue and much anticipated first poetry book. Unprotected Texts =
>encompasses work from nearly three decades. To celebrate this historic =
>release, Meritage Press is pleased to offer a PRE-RELEASE SPECIAL. =
>Through September 30, 2006, you can acquire this book direct from the =
>publisher for $14.00, a 30% discount, as well as receive free =
>shipping/handling for orders sent to U.S. addresses. Send check/money =
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>
>Eileen Tabios
>Meritage Press
>256 North Fork Crystal Springs Road
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>
>BOOK DESCRIPTION:
>Zombies and Wittgenstein bracket a series of autonomous zones populated =
>by the Book, Harry Partch, 100 Questions, shadows, holograms, the =
>Subject, the author himself, and numerous pronouns. These Unprotected =
>Texts flood the tones of speech wrenched from the bent notes of a life =
>lived looking for a connection to "the conversation" which takes place =
>among musics of meaning. Sex and text are synonymous here. "Is this =
>speech balloon a rubber?"
>
>ADVANCE WORDS:
>There is a powerfully osmotic draw to this welcome volume of Selected =
>Poems, spanning nearly thirty years of work and concluding with a =
>stimulating interview of the author by Tom Fink and Crag Hill. That this =
>book is overdue, results in a level of concentration that intensifies =
>the experience of reading. The poetry itself, the intellect and =
>personality that exude from it, reveal a mind and heart that bring to =
>the fore the infinite variety of life in the late 20th and early 21st =
>Centuries. References to composer and musical theorist Harry Partch seem =
>apt, as Beckett's Unprotected Texts reveal intervals in sound, =
>discovering heretofore undiscovered instruments.=20
>
>There is Beckett as designer who "underpaints." Beckett as builder: =
>"Stanzas are rooms in Italian." Beckett as political and social =
>observer: "Is the president a hologram?" "Do fingerprints have babies?" =
>Beckett as aesthetic investigator: "At some point I turned out to be my =
>method." "Closure affects circumference." Beckett as honest individual/ =
>articulate creator: "It's a boy and it's a girl." "Often I am permitted =
>to do absolutely nothing that I want to do."
>--Sheila E. Murphy
>
>
>For three decades now, Tom Beckett has been writing the most =
>hard-headed, clear-eyed, unsentimental poetry in America. He has the =
>rigor of a master & the mind of a first-rate detective. Long before the =
>internet made it relatively easier for a poet to work from somewhere =
>other than one of the two or three major literary centers, Beckett was =
>writing poems from deep inside Ohio that ring as true -- and as clearly =
>-- now as when they were first written.=20
>--Ron Silliman
>
>
>BIO:
>Well known for editing The Difficulties (1980-1990), a now legendary =
>critical journal, Tom Beckett has long been associated with the Language =
>Poets. His "The Picture Window" (included in this volume) was published =
>in Ron Silliman's landmark anthology In the American Tree. More =
>recently, he has become a popular figure in the world of blogs. =
>Unprotected Texts is comprised of work taken in whole or part from =
>broadsides, chapbooks, journals, online and other publications. It is =
>his first, much anticipated, full-length book. He lives in Kent, Ohio. =
>
>
>
>
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>overdue, results in a level of concentration that intensifies the =
>experience of=20
>reading. The poetry itself, the intellect and personality that exude =
>from it,=20
>reveal a mind and heart that bring to the fore the infinite variety of =
>life in=20
>the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. References to composer and =
>musical=20
>theorist Harry Partch seem apt, as Beckett's <I>Unprotected Texts =
></I>reveal=20
>intervals in sound, discovering heretofore undiscovered instruments.=20
><BR><BR>There is Beckett as designer who "underpaints." Beckett as =
>builder:=20
>"Stanzas are rooms in Italian." Beckett as political and social =
>observer: "Is=20
>the president a hologram?" "Do fingerprints have babies?" Beckett as =
>aesthetic=20
>investigator: "At some point I turned out to be my method." "Closure =
>affects=20
>circumference." Beckett as honest individual/ articulate creator: "It's =
>a boy=20
>and it's a girl." "Often I am permitted to do absolutely nothing that I =
>want to=20
>do."<BR><B>--Sheila E. Murphy</B><BR><BR><BR>For three decades now, Tom =
>Beckett=20
>has been writing the most hard-headed, clear-eyed, unsentimental poetry =
>in=20
><st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:country-region=20
>w:st=3D"on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>. He has the rigor =
>of a master=20
>& the mind of a first-rate detective. Long before the internet made =
>it=20
>relatively easier for a poet to work from somewhere other than one of =
>the two or=20
>three major literary centers, Beckett was writing poems from deep inside =
>Ohio=20
>that ring as true -- and as clearly -- now as when they were first =
>written.=20
><BR><B>--Ron Silliman</B><BR><BR><BR><B>BIO:</B><BR>Well known for =
>editing=20
><I>The Difficulties</I> (1980-1990), a now legendary critical journal, =
>Tom=20
>Beckett has long been associated with the Language Poets. His "The =
>Picture=20
>Window" (included in this volume) was published in Ron Silliman's =
>landmark=20
>anthology <I>In the American Tree</I>. More recently, he has =
>become a=20
>popular figure in the world of blogs. Unprotected Texts is comprised of =
>work=20
>taken in whole or part from broadsides, chapbooks, journals, =
>online and=20
>other publications. It is his first, much anticipated, full-length =
>
>book. He lives in <st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:City=20
>w:st=3D"on">Kent</st1:City>, <st1:State=20
>w:st=3D"on">Ohio</st1:State></st1:place>. <?xml:namespace prefix =
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><DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Anny Ballardini<BR><A=20
>href=3D"http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/">http://annyballardini.blogsp=
>ot.com/</A><BR><A=20
>href=3D"http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3Dpoetshome">http://ww=
>w.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3Dpoetshome</A><BR><A=20
>href=3D"http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html">http://www.moriapoetry.co=
>m/ebooks.html</A><BR>I=20
>Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing =
>star!=20
><BR>Friedrich Nietzsche <BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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>
>Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 15:59:47 -0500
>From: Jeff Harrison <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: The Ducks of Cotton Mather
>
>THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD
>
>the Laysan Teal has
>a dark head & neck,
>fourteen plumes (&
>seven are of gold),
>a white ring around
>the eye, a blurred blue
>ring around the bill,
>
>the same
>
>blurred blue ring around
>Cotton's incapable sleep
>
>thievish is the Laysan Teal,
>&, as such, surreptitious
>
>seven of the plumes: hopeless
>(the same that are of gold)
>
>the Laysan Teal resembles
>the female Mallard, but
>more reddish-brown
>
>*
>
>BRONTOLOGIA SACRA
>
>the female Mallard is
>mottled
>buffy-brown in color
>a pale eye-brow
>a dark stripe through the eye
>
>she peruses darkness
>her raptures are unprinted
>(raptures imperfectly corrupted)
>
>the male Mallard has
>a metallic-green head
>& neck separated from
>a purplish-brown breast
>by a white ring
>
>the same
>
>white ring around
>the Laysan Teal's eye
>
>their bodies generally go
>unburied, male & female
>
>*
>
>HUMILIATIONS FOLLOW'D WITH DELIVERANCES
>
>the Harlequin Duck (Histrionicus histrionicus)
>is the sole representative of its genus. it's
>marked like a harlequin & is also known as
>the Rock Duck, the Mountain Duck, the Squealer,
>& Lord and Lady. a mountain duck that frequents
>swiftly running streams. hunters often hang rhymes
>on their wings. always there's a line about rain-haunted
>skies. "Come, barren Graces", while improbable, is
>a traditional beginning to these rhymes.
>
>*
>
>NARRATIVES OF THE INDIAN WARS
>
>the Ruddy (Spine-tailed, Heavy-tailed,
>Quill-tail, Stiff-tail, Bristle-tail, Sleepy,
>Fool, Deaf, Shot-pouch, Daub, Stubble,
>Twist, Blather, Scoot, Hickory-head,
>Paddy, Noddy, Dinky, Hard-tack) Duck is
>equally fond of salt, brackish, & fresh water.
>its flight is rapid, with a whirring sound,
>occasioned by its wings' concave form.
>they ease to whatever the dawn requires.
>
>*
>
>A VOICE FROM HEAVEN
>
>tho web-footed, Mandarin Ducks
>have the power of perching.
>
>branches of trees overhanging ponds.
>
>the tunefulness of iron clasps.
>
>the Chinese, who use these ducks
>in marriage ceremonies, are loathe
>to part with them to visitors.
>
>Herr Bibliothekarius, in April 1836, wrote
>William Wormswork, "I could more easily
>send you two live Mandarins
>than a pair of Mandarin. Ducks."
>
>they are the only ducks that prefer captivity,
>"longing," in Herr B's words, "at the chains' clarion"
>
>------------------------------
>
>End of BRITISH-POETS Digest - 1 Aug 2006 to 2 Aug 2006 (#2006-200)
>******************************************************************
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