So I went home yesterday evening, and there was a letter from Maurice Scully
in which he enclosed a copy of the In Brief section of the latest issue of
Metre, an Irish poetry mag. Some quotes relevant to things we've been
discussing:
Of Scully's book _Steps_: 'comprising sixty-nine pages of individual poems,
_Steps, the blurb says, "is not a 'collection' of discrete items but itself
part of a larger structure"' (Still trying to work that one out)
Of Prynne's Bloodaxe book: 'his belated availability in a commercial edition
may finally help Prynne lose the tag of the invisible man of English poetry.
Which would be a good thing, but as for his being "probably the most
significant English poet of the late twentieth century (John Kinsella),
we'll have to wait for the review in Metre 7 to discover.' (Such modesty)
And as for the mag I co-edit, apparently it 'cultivates a pugnacious
obliquity to the mainstream....A contents page might have helped.
If anyone wants to try a mag with no contents page, subs are £9 for 2
issues. Issue two is nearly ready, and I hope to post a contents list soon.
Billy
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