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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 17:12:50 +1000
From: John Tranter <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Jacket # 3 is complete, and awaits your attention
JACKET magazine -
fast-loading, international, FREE
quarterly in January, April, July and October
full of stylish writing - on the Internet, at
http://www.jacket.zip.com.au
Announcement from Jacket editor John Tranter:
Jacket # 3 is now complete. Issue # 3 is dedicated to the memory of the
Australian poet JOHN FORBES, who died unexpectedly on 23 January at the age
of 47 at his home in Melbourne. It contains his stylish and laconic ode to
drugs titled "Speed: A Pastoral", and poems by many of his friends,
including Gig Ryan, Karlein van den Beukel, Rae Desmond Jones, Tracy Ryan,
Keston Sutherland, John Kinsella, Ken Bolton, Hugh Tolhurst, John Tranter,
and a portrait painting by Ken Searle of Mr Forbes as the god Zeus wearing
a towel and holding a barbecue fork.
As well:
Special article: Eliot Weinberger on the lost Chilean poet Omar Cáceres.
Interview: Russell Chatham, artist and publisher from Clark City Press,
interviewed in the wilds of Montana.
Reviews: Charles Nicholl's enlightening biography "Somebody Else -
Rimbaud in Africa", and Drew Milne on John Wilkinson's "Sarn Helen".
Poems by Andrea Brady, Tom Clark, Johanna Drucker, Hans Magnus
Enzensberger, Mark Ford, Peter Gizzi, Kris Hemensley, Michele Leggott, Joel
Lewis, Harry Mathews' thought-provoking and Oulipian "Chronogram for 1998",
Drew Milne, Ron Padgett, Hugh Tolhurst, John Wilkinson . . .
Plus many photographs and quirky works of art, the article "Thank God
for the Bourgeoisie", Jacket's Photo Tips, Great Moments in Literature
(metamorphic diathermal annealing, 1943), etc.
Plus Jacket's growing illustrated list of links to Literary Sites on the
Internet, bookstores around the world (many with direct e-mail and Internet
links!), and links to sites offering tips and resources for designing your
own Web pages.
Q: Golly! Tell me more about Jacket!
A: Well, since you ask . . .
In November 1997, Jacket was the featured Internet site on the
Electronic Poetry Center at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
In December 1997, Jacket was among the top recommended sites and the
subject of an extended review on Web Del Sol, a major literary arts
Internet conglomerate site in the US.
In December 1997, Jacket won the "Best of the Web" award from the Poetry
Mining Company, an Internet site in New York.
In April 1998 Jacket was "Featured Site" on the Booksmith Bookstore's
"Literary Links" site in San Francisco at http://www.booksmith.com/links.html
Q: Tell me about the rich treasure trove of back issues -
are they always available?
A: Absolutely!
JACKET # 1 - a piece on cyber-poetry in the age of the Internet,
interviews with English poet Roy Fisher and Australian aboriginal poet
Lionel Fogarty, a look at the 1943 hoax poet Ern Malley (including rare
childhood photos!), work by Charles Bernstein, Elaine Equi, Pamela Brown,
Alfred Corn, Joanne Burns, Tracy Ryan, Carl Rakosi, Beth Spencer, Peter
Minter, Susan Schultz and Paul Hoover, together with reviews, other prose
and poetry pieces and plentiful photos and art work. Jacket # 1 was
complete in October 1997.
JACKET # 2 - John Ashbery : two interviews (1985 and 1988), and a new
Ashbery poem / Marjorie Perloff on "Normalizing John Ashbery" / John
Tranter : 3 John Ashberys / Eliot Weinberger on James Laughlin (1914-1997)
/ David Lehman - more on the Ern Malley hoax / Bob Perelman's "The
Marginalization of Poetry" discussed by Ron Silliman, Anne Lauterbach,
Juliana Spahr, Steve Evans and Kate Lilley ... and Bob Perelman! / Yasusada
- Hoax, deception, or work of art? Johnson-Nagahata letters / poems by
Peter Riley, Lee Ann Brown, John Kinsella, Eileen Myles, August
Kleinzahler, Jennifer Moxley, Robert Adamson, Forrest Gander, Tim Davis,
Michael Heller, Denis Gallagher / Eliot Weinberger's "Letter from New York:
Vomit" / and other poems and articles. Jacket # 2 was complete in January
1998.
Q: And just how much does this glittering jewel of the Internet cost?
A: Nix!
Nowt!
Nil!
Zilch!
Jacket is FREE, and (thus) is at present unable to
pay contributors. Also, I don't have the time yet to deal with unsolicited
submissions. Sorry. My e-mail address is
[log in to unmask]
Please tell your friends about Jacket, whose motto is "bop till you drop!"
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from
John Tranter, 39 Short Street, Balmain NSW 2041, Sydney, Australia
tel (+612) 9555 8502 fax (+612) 9818 8569
http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/tranter/3poems-interview.html
Editor, Jacket magazine: http://www.jacket.zip.com.au
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