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In Tom Leonard's Being a Human Being and other poems (see www.objectpermanence.co.uk) there are lean, probing registers, some forms of discourse being brought up against their own 'translation' ("statehood is right to arms / statehood is control of the air"). "Wish You Were Here" is a pulsing set of short worked commentaries on holidaymaking; "The Proxy Badge of Victimhood" a polemic of considerable power. Elizabeth Burns, Jim Carruth, Alexander Hutchison and others appear in Duncan Glen's Zed2O Summer 2006 issue. Also from Akros, Glen's Small Press Publishers of Scotland: Idealists & Romantics 1922-2006 documents the little press scene in a readable attractively designed history and reference work. Michael Kindellan and Reitha Pattison each translate / transform eight troubadour poems from Bertrand de Born (d.1215) in this quietly but beautifully produced Arehouse Press pamphlet (see www.cambridgepoetry.org). The poem-with-art, art-with-poem series Tolling Elves edited by Thomas Evans, surely one of the great little magazine series of recent years, has come to an end, but copies may still be available: at least you can see the covers at www.onedit.net/tollingelves/contents.html where you can also glean contact details. David Miller’s Kater Murr Press is an earlier similar excellent enterprise that is still very much going and has digitised its art and poetry at http://home.freeuk.net/katermurr/index.htm. Contributors include Alyson Torns, Giles Goodland, Natalie d’Arbeloff, Johan de Wit and many others. J. H. Prynne's To Pollen is a work of stilled compressed anguish and, as with Leonard's book, state terrorism appears to be the primary theme (www.barquepress.com). Barque also issue the space / physics / environmental theory poetry of Allen Fisher in Singularity Stereo and Ian Hunt's Green Light, in which reference is made to Daisy Goodwin's Little Book of Command Structure and the reader is invited to "Go deeper into the beck and call, and even vigilance willl administer itself strange spaces: the railway lands, the zone of embroideries, the small brown birds of the inter-war years." About eight years after starting it a certain Richard Price and David Miller finally publish their British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000: a history and bibliography of 'little magazines' (British Library): hundreds of accounts of magazines, a union catalogue, historical commentaries, and extensive author index. The first number of Sudeep Sen's stylish Atlas includes work by Charles Bernstein, Les Murray, R Raj Rad, Stephen Watts, Tishani Doshi, Fiona Sampson, John Welch, and many others (info at [email protected]). Lastly, there's Catherine Wagner's songish, philosophicalish, painful mother / wife / occupier-of-alive-cells book Macular Hole (www.fencemag.com) from a few years ago, but yours truly is a lifelong learner and have you read it yet? If you ever have the chance to see / hear Wagner read then book that plane / ferry / spaceshuttle tootsweet (I did recently at a remarkable reading by Wagner, co-billed with Leslie Scalapino, and both offering a lot structurally and aurally to think about).
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