Announcement:
. . . on 18 February 1999, anniversary of the birthday of the first
reigning queen of Great Britain, of screen god Jack Palance, screen goddess
Kim Novak, and techno hero Count Allesandro Volta, inventor of the battery
(!) . . .
Issue # 6 of Jacket magazine appears, stitched up and ready to wear, . . . at
http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket06/index06.html
Nathaniel Tarn Feature: The first chapter of his new book, “Scandals in the
House of Birds” - Based on a thirty-year span of fieldwork in the Lake
Atitlán region of Guatemala, "Scandals in the House of Birds" is a
multi-voiced epic of a sacred crime, and its tangled mythic, religious, and
political ramifications.
Nathaniel Tarn: a heartfelt essay on new poetic forms - "I must confess in
a belief that poetry represents . . . the ground and constitution of a
perpetual opposition which is ill served by the depths of social
isolationism into which we have allowed our vocation to sink"
A review by Shamoon Zamir (King’s College, London) of “Scandals in the
House of Birds” (to come)
A poem by Nathaniel Tarn on his Lithuanian heritage and the pogroms.
AND . . .
Frank O'Hara - WHAT'S WITH MODERN ART? - reviews of art shows from Art
News, 1953-55, gathered by poet Bill Berkson - and a rare 1965 O'Hara photo
by Renate Ponsold Motherwell
Paul Hoover - "THE PLOT AGAINST THE GIANT" - a review of David Lehman's
"The Making of the Last Avant-Garde", about the New York School of poets
Eliot Weinberger : What Was Formalism? - a dry look at the latest poetic
craze versus an ancient poetic tradition.
>From Cambridge, England: John Kinsella’s commentary on a poem by the
elusive J.H.Prynne.
. . . and poems from Richard Caddel, Maxine Chernoff, Bill Griffiths,
Lisa Jarnot, Robert Kelly, John Kinsella, Jennifer Moxley, Sheila Murphy,
J.H. Prynne, Michael Rothenberg, Ron Silliman, and Adrian Wiggins.
With notices of and live links to the Post-War American Poetry Conference
in Liège, Belgium, in early March 1999;
the 9th Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry to be held at Trinity
College, Cambridge, England, in late April 1999; and
the 22nd Festival Franco-Anglais de Poésie in Paris from 10 to 15 May 1999
- the theme is LANGAGES DU TEMPS MOBILE and you can read all about it at
"La Traductière", the Internet site for the literary translation magazine
edited by the indefatigable Jacques Rancourt in Paris.
. . . and, as usual, a lather of photographs and other visuals.
Drop by, try the fit of the Jacket, and if you like it,
tell your friends!
I understand that you may not wish to receive these notices.
If so, please reply to this email to that effect, and
I'll take your name off the mailing list pronto. [ J.T. ]
A special PS: =================
Kate Grenville, noted Australian author, now has her own Internet site, at
this URL:
http://www.alm.aust.com/~kategren/index.html
The site is available to the public free of charge, and contains over
a hundred pages of detailed information relating to Kate's writing career -
interviews, book reviews, biography, bibliography, chapters from her books,
and photos. The site was created by Jacket editor John Tranter for
Australian Literary Management, Australia's premier literary agency.
from
John Tranter, 39 Short Street, Balmain NSW 2041, Sydney, Australia
tel (+612) 9555 8502 fax (+612) 9818 8569
Editor, Jacket magazine: http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/welcome.html
Homepage: five megabytes of glittering literature, free, at
http://www.alm.aust.com/~tranterj/index.html
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