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> From: [log in to unmask] (Rob McLennan)
> Subject: new from above/ground press: Shikibu Shuffle, a collaboration between Andrew Burke and Phil Hall
> Date: 14 March, 2012 9:40:37 AM MDT
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> Shikibu Shuffle
> Andrew Burke and Phil Hall
> $4
>
> published in Ottawa by above/ground press
> March 2012
> a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
>
> Happy fate brought a poet from Perth Western Australia and a poet from
> Perth Ontario Canada together in 2009.
>
> Then Andrew had a heart attack and was queued up for life-saving surgery.
>
> With nothing to do but wait, kept alive by sprays and medical potions
> to distract himself Andrew agreed to work with Phil on a collaboration.
>
> Andrew suggested the Japanese court poet Murasaki Shikibu (973-1014);
> her 5-line form might be a place to start.
>
> Phil was thinking of Ornette Coleman: two quartets facing each other
> and going at it (1960).
>
> We wrote in 5s back and forth, then shuffled our silence-inducing
> cacophony into 10s, then improvised from there...
>
> Andrew's operation was bumped once, and then happened. He's fine.
>
> The shuffle served its purpose, and now surprises and delights them both.
>
>
> Andrew Burke was born in Victoria, but raised in Western Australia. Since
> the mid-Sixties, he has published nine collections of poetry. His most
> recent book of poems is QWERTY- take my word for it (Mulla Mulla Press,
> 2011). He has also published short stories, a novel, and criticism. He has
> lectured at universities in Australia and China. Readers may read his
> daily musings at http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>
> Phil Hall is the 2011 winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry in
> English for his book Killdeer (BookThug). Other recent titles are The
> Little Seamstress (Pedlar Press, 2010) and White Porcupine (Bookthug,
> 2007). He is a member of the Writers' Union of Canada. Everything escapes him.
>
> See rob mclennan's lengthy essay on Phil Hall's work here:
> http://wordsters.net/poetics/poetics08/OnPhilHall.html
>
> To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to:
> rob mclennan, 402 McLeod St #3, Ottawa ON K2P 1A6 or paypal at
> www.robmclennan.blogspot.com
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> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
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Douglas Barbour
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