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On the subject of the desirability of hearing about new publications, has anyone else come across 'Night Office' by Simon Jarvis, recently published by Enitharmon?Over 200 pages of closely rhymed stanzas, four to the page, such as: Dead, every one, and gone beneath the snow. I search the past for them, but miss their faces. They are where all the happy dead must go. Only, in this dark room, I cannot know their quietness, their sleep; my head replaces each one precisely in his life, and so they walk again this path from lungs to teeth, escaping painfully from sweet relief. Each bears his rhythm like an inner star: each is walked through by some one line of stress not chosen or invented, though they are not accidental either, since they test, for each imprinted pattern, where the bar is lightly crossed, or halted at. My chest rises and falls beneath my shirt, as each treads slowly through me his peculiar speech, sending me softly dumbnesses, impressions left in the surface of my slow tongue, which shifts shape a little each time. Dreams, depressions, pass through my face from inside. In this rich, yet monochrome, design, these curls, recessions, vaults and returns speak, soundlessly, dip, pitch their friendly spirit voices through my sight and out into the European night. I haven't read the whole thing yet but it seems a remarkable work. Peter Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 19:40:31 +0100 From: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: mr lace To: [log in to unmask] I second this remark about announcements. There used to be a lot more of them but for some reason they petered out, except from me and one or two others, same on the UKPoetry list. They were very useful. How are we meant to find out what is published by small presses and what readings are on, what has been added or changed on poets' websites?. A week or so ago a poem by RF Langley was read and introduced by Helen Macdonald on Radio 4. I missed it. pr On 23 Jul 2013, at 19:23, Séamas Cain wrote:So, a number of self-appointed élitists are condemning the idea of "ads" on this list. (I call them "announcements.") Well, I for one wish we had MORE announcements on this list. I would like to know much more about what each and every micro-press in Britain and Ireland is publishing. I WOULD like to be introduced to new work and new kinds of work. But the contrived "discussions" on aesthetics, sincerely I could do without.