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Those interested in lost souls of 1960s poetry might like to know that the poet Peter Bland died two or three years ago in Ipswich, having lived there alone for about 30 years. (He shouldn't be confused with another poet of the same name, a New Zealander published by London Magazine Editions and Carcanet). This won't mean much to most of you. But his Ferry Press book, Passing Gods (1970) deserves not to be forgotten. There was another book, Joint Effort by Bland and MacSweeney (half each) Blacksuede Boot Press 1970, and I myself possess the typescript of Poems scheduled by Unicorn Bookshop in 1968 but never published. PR