I'm also a Dusie-ite, though it's been slow going what with every kind
of nonsense getting in the way: earthquakes, radiation, suicide of
friend, etc. I've just finished--today!-- the over-sized book of poem/
engravings for this year. Next step is to scan it and send it to the
Dusie site. Just wanted to mention too that all of the Dusie chaps that
got to me in Japan last and this year found their way to the Special
Collections of the University of Maryland/ College Park. Jesse
On 12/30/2011, "BRITISH-IRISH-POETS automatic digest system"
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>Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:01:01 +0000
>From: Tilla Brading <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Dusie project
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>Hello Britpoers,
>The project mentioned below - Dusie - includes people on this list:
>Christine Kennedy, Giles Goodland, me and others FYI.
>How it 'functions' is that it has c 100 participants who sent an
>individual chapbook to all the others so, ergo, each received 99 others
>making a collection. In reality, I received 41 which illustrates that
>59 had good intentions but the realism of writing, making, producing x
>100 was more then they could take on. Nevertheless it was exciting to
>receive almost daily, surprise packages of texts. It has had spinoffs
>of readings and displays and, hopefully will be showcased at this
>year's Poetry Picnic in Porlock on September 15th 2012 o which Susana
>Gardner has been invited as the guest poet and other 'Dusie' poets will
>participate.
>
>Happy New Yr,
>
>tilla
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>
>http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2011/12/these-are-books-published-in
>-2011-that.html
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>The importance of small and alternate presses continues without let-up
>in the digital age. Independent publishers are more crucial now than
>they were even a decade ago. Tiny, sometimes shoestring projects like
>the Dusie Chapbook series are publishing more vital and interesting
>work than most trade or university houses. I don���t quite understand how
>the Dusie Kollectiv functions in practice, but I gather they select the
>authors & give them all the freedom in the world. This makes the
>resulting editions somewhat fugitive ��� I have no idea whether I have a
>good collection, a complete collection or only the slightest taste of a
>collection of the chaps.
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>
>
>Tilla Brading
>Shiplap (Flat 2)
>43, Quay St
>Minehead,
>TA24 5UL
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>01643 708160
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