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SNOWSHOES ACROSS THE CLOUDS Robert Garlitz & Rupert Loydell
ISBN 1 900152 86 X £5.95 / $10 48pp pbck April 2004

A sensual and rich cluster of images. Language played with and pasted together form various discourses although still managing to remain within certain themes and boundaries. I love the way both writers have fired energy into the images. In poem 4. The Shrine at the End of the Road, ”Up ahead a sign says the world is getting smaller.” And in 29. Other Surprises, “Carefully, I gather discarded pages by night, stitch them back together into mysterious books where time and characters slip and flit from moment to moment. This book takes the collage into new dimensions.

Fractured Muse by A.C. Evans
Atlantean Publishing, 38 Pierrot Steps.
71, Kursaal Way
Southend on Sea
Essex, SS1 2UY, UK. Price £1
Cheques should be made to DJ Tyrer

A fascinating booklet of poems. The fractured muse confronts
the artificial world of post-modernity and also the aesthetic drawing room of
Victorian Fin-De-Siecle. Gothic, dark muse meets Poe and Raymond Chandler along her travels with maybe a little time to converse with Barbarella on the way. For me it was an exotic and bewitching encounter, sensual but also enlightening in its honest confrontation with what I feel doesn’t ignore the human condition.

North: BURNHARDIE
Commissioned by Litfest and Lancaster University
ISBN 0 9540092 1 5

Experimenting with sound, language and visual art, Burn and Hardie, strike the cutting edge of performance art/poetry. Both are at the forefront of the
contemporary avant-garde without discarding contemporary issues. Agonising prescriptive language doesn’t enter the agenda. This is writing that flows and mutates, collages, intertwining, overlapping, voices making us contemplate.

What I love about North by BURNHARDIE is their ability to experiment innovatively with the everyday material around them. The booklet of photographs depicting northern landscape along with poems is unique and transcends the stereotypical imagery that usually depicts the north. As well as the booklet, their CD creates an unusual atmosphere, a mixture of sound effects and monologue and dialogue, haunting, documentary and at times theatrical.