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[Apologies in advance for crossposting. Contributors should see copies in a week or so.] T H E G I G # 8 (March 2001) The latest issue of _The Gig_ is now available: it contains poetry by Kenneth Goldsmith, Maurice Scully, Peter Middleton, Elizabeth James, Adrian Clarke, Randolph Healy, Peter Manson, Ralph Hawkins & John Wilkinson; plus reviews by Pete Smith & Nate Dorward of books by Lissa Wolsak, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, Stephen Rodefer et al. There's also the results of the reader's poll announced in the last issue, in which readers were invited to nominate (&, if they wished, discuss) three of their favourite books published from 1995 to the present. _The Gig_ appears three times a year; it publishes new poetry & criticism from the US, Canada, UK & Ireland. Backissues are still available, notably #4/5, a 232pp perfectbound collection of essays on the work of the UK poet Peter Riley by Peter Middleton, Peter Larkin, Mark Morrisson, Nigel Wheale et al. Regular issues are 60-64pp chapbooks: see the website at http://www.geocities.com/ndorward/ for details. * Rates for all issues except #4/5: within Canada: single issue: $7 Cdn ($12 for institutions); three-issue subscription (or set of three backissues): $18 (institutions $36). US subscription: $14 US (institutions $28 US). Overseas subscription: 10 pounds (institutions 20 pounds). Rates for #4/5: within Canada: $20 Cdn (institutions $40); within US: $15 US (institutions $30); overseas: 11 pounds surfacemail, 13 pounds airmail (institutions 20 pounds). All prices include postage. Make cheques out to "Nate Dorward". Write to: Nate Dorward, 109 Hounslow Ave., Willowdale, Ontario, M2N 2B1, Canada; e-mail: <[log in to unmask]>. Copies may be obtained within the UK through Peter Riley (Books), 27 Sturton Street, Cambridge, CB1 2QG; e-mail: <[log in to unmask]>. * Separately available is _The Topological Shovel_, a set of four essays by Allen Fisher in workbook format, 52pp. Prices: $12 Cdn; $9.50 US; 6.50 pounds UK/overseas (all prices include postage). * Issue #8 has as always a brief section of notes at the back about contemporary poetry (this issue contains notes on sources & allusions in Prynne, R.F. Langley, Peter Riley, John Riley & Raworth). Listmembers are welcome to write me (backchannel) with notes; contributors of any notes that I end up using will receive a free issue of the magazine. * Nate & Jane Dorward [log in to unmask] THE GIG magazine: http://www.geocities.com/ndorward/ 109 Hounslow Ave., Willowdale, ON, M2N 2B1, Canada ph: (416) 221 6865