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Shearsman.
Shearsman Books Ltd., 58 Velwell Road, Exeter, EX4 4LD £7.50 / $12.50 each double issue. Subscription for 2 issues, £12.00 U.K., £14.00 rest of Europe, £15.00 rest of the world.
Shearsman double issue 63 and 64 is the new format for this magazine, which will appear twice a year in future at more than twice the previous size. It is well-presented and attractive, with a coloured stiff cover. This has meant that longer work can be included and Gad Hollander's part-poem, some of which is in prose poem form, "from ' Theatre of Psychodialysis'", occupies six pages. This poem has impressive images and evocations of a variety of disparate feelings in the section Black Love: '...if that is what we call love / that persistent yearning to touch / like a river's to change course / the star of redemption...' The prose section is in a taut and pleasingly lyrical stream of consciousness style, e.g. 'Lisbon, 2008; black love, dark courtyard, hysterical voices at the windows swallowed by a voracious earth. She is wearing black, o unangel, and her feet are quiet, dusty and bare'. There are various translated poems though it wasn't always clear from which language, though Proust was clear enough. The collection as a whole is of high quality, beautiful work, seriously chosen.
Page(s) 40-41
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