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That is a difficult question. A lot of the reviewers of the book have found influences of poets I've never read but certainly intend to now. I left the UK in 1976 and came to Spain. This left me isolated from the poetry 'scene' but I was able to re-read Lorca in the original Spanish as well as others writing in Spanish, such as Rafael Alberti, Miguel Hernández and Neruda. I had brought my small collection of Penguin's Modern European Poets so I read Quasimodo, Rilke, Montale, Vasko Popa and, especially, Celan. Like most young poets of the time, I was heavily influenced by Eliot and the Liverpool Poets. However, I would include certain non-poets such as James Joyce and, above all, Samuel Beckett as being very important for me. Music has been very important, too: Bob Dylan of Bringing it all back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde, Roy Harper, Captain Beefheart, Blues in general and Jazz, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Archie  Shepp and others.

I've had little formal literature education since failing my Eng Lit A-Level. What I know is just an informal amalgam of what I've picked up piece-meal on the way. I did later do an MSc in Applied Linguistics, which, if nothing else, I've used to play with language. I've also found the Norton collection of American Postmodern Poetry to be a treasure trove.

The poems are a little longer in general in my forthcoming book with The Corrupt Press, some time we are heroes. 😉 

Reuben

On 23 February 2018 at 16:25, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Yes, spooky little book.
May I ask your influences? The poems are all so short on the page.

Cheers,
Luke

On 17 February 2018 at 21:55, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Ha! I'll be sure to leave a sarcastic note.

Best,
Luke

On 17 February 2018 at 17:09, Reuben Woolley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
You can say if you didn't like mine. I shan't go away and sulk for the rest of the year.

Reuben

On 17 February 2018 at 15:58, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Apologies in advance Jamie.

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However much I like my version...

Cheers,
L

On 13 February 2018 at 00:38, Jaime Robles <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Thanks, Luke. They are jaw-droppingly sweet people, and have published some wonderful chapbooks over the years.








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QS: Let’s return to poetics.
JR: When did we leave?

—From the conversation between Quinta Slef and Joan Retallack, The Poethical Wager





On Feb 12, 2018, at 4:07 PM, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Knowing what it’s about you now don’t have to read the book ….

Ha, really? The Lune site looks lovely, I shall get a copy shortly. That's my five now, thanks!

Cheers,
Luke

On 12 February 2018 at 20:49, Jaime Robles <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
In a dizzying display of self-love and self-promotion, I will list my own chapbook, which was recently published in a book of chapbooks by the incredibly charming and poetry-bedazzled publishers at The Lune. (I might clarify that here in the USofA the homonym of Lune is loon, a bird. Not a slang shortening of lunatic. Either way I find the publisher’s name (perhaps it was intentional) sort of adorable.))


The chapbook is about the house I grew up in and my childhood; not my usual subject, if I have one. But the disjunct of living in the UK and a very different culture threw me back into old dreams, the mysterious perceptions of childhood and the even more mysterious memories of adults.

Knowing what it’s about you now don’t have to read the book ….






______________________________

QS: Let’s return to poetics.
JR: When did we leave?

—From the conversation between Quinta Slef and Joan Retallack, The Poethical Wager





On Feb 12, 2018, at 11:55 AM, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Ordered, thanks.

> Mukhopadhyay's instantly has me

Really angry / desiring of an order!

Owen's almost struck me as arrogant, in those sorts of terms. The blurb says it's very well researched, which I guess could end with too much closure voice etc..

Lock's work is exciting, and mellowed.

Best wishes,
Luke

On 1 February 2018 at 11:48, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Well, I hope it turns out to be good.
LOL.

> Good reading

How? Ha.

See you,
Luke

On 1 February 2018 at 09:45, Reuben Woolley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Of course there's also my book, 'broken stories', which is really a cross between a chapbook and a collection - 54 pages.
LOL.

Good reading,

Reuben

On 1 Feb 2018 09:26, "Luke" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I might not get round to Owen's chapbook, but Mukhopadhyay's instantly has me.

Cheers,
Luke

On 13 January 2018 at 11:43, Reuben Woolley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Antony Owen - 'The Nagasaki Elder'
Fran Lock (with collages by Steev Burgess) - 'Muses and Bruises'
Debasis Mukhopadhyay - 'kyrie eleison or all robins taken out of context'

Reuben

On 13 January 2018 at 12:04, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hello list,
These are great, and easier to read than books. If  you like, list your top 5 from the year?
Thanks,
Luke