Gare du Nord II/1 is out.
Surprise colour: blue. Surprise date: 1998. Surprise editorial question:
a very good one. Surprise contents: This issue notable for unfamiliar
names which I think is very much what a magazine if this style should be
about. Unfortunately the innate conservatism of the experimental poetry
scene may therefore make people not want to buy it: "Who's she, never
heard of her...." etc. Don't let it. Surprise editorial discussion on TONE,
a very important topic, and exactly what we keep getting wrong on this
bastard group-letter medium.
Price £3/25F/$4.50. Copies will be available from me but it is better to
subscribe, which costs only£9/90F/$20 for three issues annually (cheques to
Douglas Oliver) at 21 rue des Messageries, 75010 Paris France. Actually it
is absurd not to subscribe.
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Three issues POETICAL HISTORIES appeared all of a bunch. These are
letterpress-printed pamphlets on antique mould-made paper in editions of
120 to 200.
No.46 MEANING by Robert Adamson. 12pp, with a front cover drawing by Robert
Duncan.
Adamson is an Australian poet who if things had followed their proper
courses would be as well respected here and in USA as Robert Duncan
himself, or Creeley or anyone includingn Les Murray than whom he is better.
Not experimental, not mainstream, no nonsense.
No.47 PART ONE PUSKIN by Ralph Hawkins. 8pp.
Ralph keeps writing over there on the east coast (of Essex) and the great
publicity circuits of the anti-mainstream don't seem to know he exists, I
can't think why not unless you have to do a good deal more than write
poetry to get on as an innovative poet.
I have been with myself day and night
through unnumbered forests
until I knew the flowers by touch and name
leading to the border where words elude reason
No.48 TELEPHONE VOICESby Sam Brenton. 8pp
Sam is a young person whose charm is not beholden to any localities of
poetry. This is his first publication, though Barque Press has just issued
a second but I got there first. It's a kind of poetical narrative /drama
in interjected voices.
Her darling hard he fell, how hard ten thousand fell.
The plastic poorly cups in my hand and you may not
hear my supplication in the pips' harsh closing line.
46 is £4, 47 and 48 £3 each. By post inland add £1 however many, Europe
£1.50, else £2.
Copies will be available in north America through SPD.
Or subscribe.
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Equipage (Cambridge) has published the much delayed wacky versions of
Rilke's Duino Elegies by Geoff Ward. And a book with a long title
beginning The Coiling Dragon... by Ralph Hawkins. £2.50 each from me, or
Rod Mengham, Jesus College Cambridge. (I have to admit you get a lot more
Hawkins from Equipage for £2.50 than you do from me for £3 but, well, there
aren't many letterpress printers left .....)
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