By the way, my attempt at a review of Rob MacKenzie's book will appear
in the next Southfields (5.2), due out in six weeks or so. Other
details will follow a little later, but there'll also be an essay on
Denise Riley by Frances Presley, and poetry by Loydell and de Wit, new
translations of Cendrars and one or two other things.
Richard (Price)
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Subject: new books
Author: R I Caddel <[log in to unmask]> at Internet
Date: 2/3/99 12:58 PM
I'll second Bill Griffiths' plug for the excellent new anthology from
Invisible Books. In fact, so much of what this press does is admirable,
looks good, feels good, sounds good when read. Two years ago they
published Rob MacKenzie's _Off Ardglass_ (ISBN 09521256 5 X) and it's
excellent - outer-hebribean biochemist punk, sharp n fast... Here's an
atypical snippet, remembering Karlien's paper on !shrieks, from _a
punctuation ghetto for_:
,:, semi-colon ":!-:.;, full stop
":.,?, full stop .;.:", question mark
lip mark .,:? lip mark ":
.,!:
[etc... ]
Invisible Books is simply: B.M. Invisible, London WC1N 3XX. Weird.
And then, just in is Rod Mengham's _Kobra_, originally published in a
threesome with John Wilkinson and Stephen Rodefer by Reality Street, here
in a bilingual ed with Polish translation by Jerzy Jarniewicz, and an
essay _Kobra the word_, also bilingual, and well worth having. Published
by Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi, ul. Wieckowskiego 36, 90-734 Lodz, Poland (ISBN
83 87937 00 2; no price given).
And finally, Robert Creeley's _Daybook of a Virtual Poet_ (Spuyten Duyvil,
PO Box 1852 Cathedral Station NYC 10025. ISBN 1 881471 28 4, $12), his
contributions as an online poet in residence: warm, informative, open,
generous, all the things you'd expect. Great stuff.
RC
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