Dear List Colleagues

Firstly apologies for cross-posting.

Secondly: Great Works 14 is now online. New are the following:

• Jeffrey Side, seven poems
• David Chaloner, three poems
• Richard Makin, eight poems from Rift Designs
• Hannah Silva, seven poems
• Scott Helmes, two poems
• Christopher Barnes, six poems
• Lucy Harvest Clarke, three sonnets
• Richard Barrett, two poems
• James Price, three poems
• Aidan Semmens, three poems
• John Gilmore, two excerpts from Head of a Man and three Etudes
• Kenny Knight, six poems from The Honicknowle Book of the Dead
• Ben Stainton, four poems
• Ron Singer, The Shiny Pants Brigade
• Charles Freeland, six poems
• Caleb Puckett, three poems
• Mary Michaels, three prose poems
• Boris Jardine, five poems
• Michael Egan, three poems
• Tomas Weber, two poems
• Alan Baker, from The Book of Random Access
• Rufo Quintavalle, two poems
• AnnMarie Eldon, five poems
• Mendoza, poems
• Joseto Solis, from The Ingredients of Oneself
• Tina Hyett, poems from In the Dirt
• Spencer Termott, THE MATCHING TYE SET (from In the Dirt)
  

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•  Richard Makin, St Leonards - most recent episode still being written! Will be up in a day or so (but I was desperate to get the New Year, then March, now April issue out before Yet Another Month)
• Peter Hughes & Simon Marsh, Pistol Tree Poems - most recent episodes still with wet ink!

A varied mix as always. If you like 'em, all, I'm amazed; if you like none, well ...

Thirdly, if you read the home page, you will pick up that Sundays at the Oto is coming to a close. I would like to continue this on a slightly different basis, and welcome suggestions how to do this successfully. It would have to be an evening event, not necessarily the same day of the month each time. to match Cafe O requirements. I would like to carry on there as I think it is an excellent venue, welcoming and flexible with a very good atmosphere. I would like to continue with poetry and music - especially as this mix helps with two goals I have for the events: people attend who are not already part of the Crazy World of Avant-Garde Poetry or whatever it is; and there is a challenge, which can be accepted or quite happily not, for poets to go beyond reading, and present their work as performance or utterance.

I am open to suggestions and comments as to programming, arrangements etc.

I would also welcome anyone who might want to get involved with the project. As a beached whale from the Sixties, I'd welcome fresh input, fresh contacts etc, angling (if you can cope with the mixed metaphor here) for some person of a younger generation ... better able to besport her/himself on the strandline of the Early Third Millenium with all its new ways. Back-channel me on this.


best wishes

Peter Philpott