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Tom Jenks or James Davies or Scott Thurston: e-mail address on their website is: *[log in to unmask]* On 4 February 2011 22:11, Tony Frazer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > *** that wasn't for the list. Sorry folks! > > Tony > > > On 4 Feb 2011, at 21:55, Mark Weiss wrote: > > Anybody know who to talk to at The Other Room or other venues in > Manchester? I want to hit them up for a reading this coming summer. > > Best, > > Mark > > > New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, *As Landscape. > *$16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm > > > "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a lovely concatenation of > particulars. Here is the poet alive in every sense of the word, and through > every one of his senses. Instead of missing a beat or a part, Weiss’ > fragments are like Chekhov’s short storiesthe more that gets left out, the > more they seem to contain… One can hear echoes from all the various > ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its core, is pure Mark Weiss. > His use of the fragment is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a pure musical > threnody…[it] opens a window, not only into a mind, but a person, a > personality, this human figure at the emotional center of the poem." > > M.G. Stephens, in Jacket. > http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml > > > -- Arthur Shilling Press - http://arthur-shilling-press.blogspot.com Celery Lanes - http://hjgodwin.blogspot.com Cleaves Journal - http://www.cleavesjournal.com Small Press Catalogue - http://smallpresscatalogue.blogspot.com