Ken,
Can you post an excerpt or two too? I always
love that in publication announcements!
Ira
Reality Street Editions announces the publication of
Debbie: =
an Epic
by Lisa Robertson
Published in association with New Star Books, Canada,
Debbie: an Epic is
this talented Canadian poet's full debut in the UK -
following the
inclusion of a short extract from this sequence in Out of
Everywhere. =
Lisa Robertson's work is playful, intelligent, audacious and
wide-ranging=
in its lightly-worn learning: Girl Power meets Vergil meets
Edith Sitwell=
=2E
Her previous publications include The Badge, The Apothecary
and XEclogue.=
She edits the journal Raddle Moon with Susan Clark and
Catriona Strang.
Funding from Eastern Arts Board gratefully acknowledged.
1-874400-12-1 Price: 7.50 sterling
200 x 152mm paperback 96pp
Lisa Robertson will be in the UK in the new year, and will
be launching t=
he
book at a reading on Friday 16 January at the Serpentine
Gallery Bookshop=
,
54 Warren Street, London W1 (starts 7.00pm), and also in
Cambridge (tbc).=
I've just taken delivery today of the book from the Canadian
printer, and=
it's beautiful. British-poets list subscribers can order it
post free. Th=
e
RSE subscription offer - any four books in print for 25.00
pounds - is al=
so
still open - ask me for details.
Send sterling cheques payable to Reality Street Editions
and/or requests
for details to 4 Howard Court, Peckham Rye, London SE15 3PH.
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