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The second TALKS series will begin on Monday, 15 February, at 6.00 in KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON, The Strand, London WC1 in room 131. The Speaker will be ALLEN FISHER, and the TALK is entitled 'Shifting the literal: two fragments' with the subtitle '(1) Collage and Simultaneity (2) A Narratology of Space Time'. The full programme for February-April will be published later this month. Please publicise. All welcome. > ---------- > From: R I Caddel[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Reply To: R I Caddel > Sent: 03 February 1999 12:58 > To: british n irish poets > Subject: new books > > I'll second Bill Griffiths' plug for the excellent new anthology from > Invisible Books. In fact, so much of what this press does is admirable, > looks good, feels good, sounds good when read. Two years ago they > published Rob MacKenzie's _Off Ardglass_ (ISBN 09521256 5 X) and it's > excellent - outer-hebribean biochemist punk, sharp n fast... Here's an > atypical snippet, remembering Karlien's paper on !shrieks, from _a > punctuation ghetto for_: > > ,:, semi-colon ":!-:.;, full stop > ":.,?, full stop .;.:", question mark > lip mark .,:? lip mark ": > .,!: > > [etc... ] > > Invisible Books is simply: B.M. Invisible, London WC1N 3XX. Weird. > > And then, just in is Rod Mengham's _Kobra_, originally published in a > threesome with John Wilkinson and Stephen Rodefer by Reality Street, here > in a bilingual ed with Polish translation by Jerzy Jarniewicz, and an > essay _Kobra the word_, also bilingual, and well worth having. Published > by Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi, ul. Wieckowskiego 36, 90-734 Lodz, Poland (ISBN > 83 87937 00 2; no price given). > > And finally, Robert Creeley's _Daybook of a Virtual Poet_ (Spuyten Duyvil, > PO Box 1852 Cathedral Station NYC 10025. ISBN 1 881471 28 4, $12), his > contributions as an online poet in residence: warm, informative, open, > generous, all the things you'd expect. Great stuff. > > RC > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%