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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