Really, Patrick? I got my replacement for £2.50.
I believe it got hastily withdrawn and pulped soon after publication for
some tortuous and tortured reasons so perhaps it can fetch a high price on
the second hand market.
2009/5/30 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> Conductors of Chaos: A Poetry Anthology by Iain Sinclair (Paperback - 7 Jun
> 1996)
> 3 Used & new from £163.95
> Is this it davey? It would be nice to get more clues _I suspect it's just
> because you want more that £164 for your tatty copy that you have posted
> this
> Cheerios p
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> Subject: Conductors of Chaos
>
> I long ago lost my copy of this interesting/repulsive,
> seminal/insignificant, funny/humourless 1996 anthology I was struck that
> yesterday, when regained a copy, it was not in an independent bookshop
> (what
> are they in Britain?) nor a second-bookshop but in a charity shop.
> Interesting refuge for poetry in post-neo-Thatcherite-Blarite
> Padel-with-security-guards (see the Guardian on the Hay Literary festival)
> little bankrupt britain methought.
>
> --
> David Bircumshaw
> "Nothing can be done in the face
> of ordinary unhappiness" - PP
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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David Bircumshaw
"Nothing can be done in the face
of ordinary unhappiness" - PP
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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