Dear All,
I hope all is well with you, and that you get a dryer weekend than the one I'm having.
Philip Davenport's beautiful 'Appeal in Air' is out now.
"Appeal in Air is a poem for lost voices -- a suicide overheard; a list of posts; a valedictory call of bird-names. Davenport uses the spreadsheet as poetic form, collaging lines, random data, birdsong."
I'd like to add that the way Davenport breaks down the form of the spreadsheet to reflect the unstable mind of the suicidal locutor is as deft as the way Tennyson conveys an unballenced mind through the corruption of Classical Rhythm in 'Maud'.
The book is £12, 152 pages and available here: http://www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk
Alec.
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