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I should chip in here to say that I'm publishing PATH. It's due out next summer and will hopefully be followed up by a larger gathering of material from Chris's earlier books. It's good to know that it might reach a receptive audience. On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Rhys Trimble <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Chris was my first mentor in poetry as we lived in the same village I > would go to his cobweb-strewn house at Glynmercher Isaf and sit in front of > the turn-of-the century range and talk and be talked at about names that > would later be more familiar to me Cobbing, Lee Harwood, Jeremy Prynne, > drink whisky and hear annecdotes of the British Poetry Revival and Barry > MacSweeney's eyes. Certainly a model with regards integrity - sticking to > his personal contacts as outlets for poetry - rarely making an unsolicited > submission, everything typed on an old noisy brother ax typwriter > (cartidges for which were traded and obtained by walking miles to Glynneath > or further). He's talked about PATH as a complete to-date magic-door cycle > volume for a few years now and his lyric via Olsonian poetic / beat poetry > would be a welcome piece of the puzzle to be brought to a wider audience. >