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Cave (4) $1.00. trevor reeves. box 1458, dunedin, new zealand. a purple cover photo of buk leads off another good issue of this genuine door opener down under. nz poets & writers get their share but so do some of the best from the uk and usa. poems, visuals, articles, reviews, numerous adverts, a tidy blend resulting in a good magazine. g.j.melling on buk, followed by a large bunch of buk poetry / ds long / hone tuwhare / alan wells / wm wantling short story / winans / plus notices & reviews together with a fair helping of pretty weak concrete poems.

Dharma $1.60 sub. po box 5, prospect 5082, s.a., australia. australian little mags, unlike their nz counterparts, appear to be still in the heart of mimeo land. they are all a little rough in presentation but all show spirit, and this comes to the fore in dharma. the poetry is, as yet, local - with a few uk small mag poets getting in from time to time
no 9 horsam / peter lawlor / leon spiro / rae desmond jones / darlington / john edwards / &c.
no 10 a typewriter offset issue, but still produced as per mimeo. coady / buttrose / connors / darlington / finch / de wet / pilcher / klimaszewski / ds long / & others

Dying Orpheus $4.00 stephen chan. 18 currie ave, aukland 4, NZ. the fifth & final issue of orpheus mag - large format, good layout with lots of illustrations. poetry in reasonable selection plus lengthy reviews. a shame to see it once and then have it die.

Edge (5/6) guest edited by bruce mcallister. christchurch, nz. available in the uk from mcbride & broadley, wood cottage - nash rd, gt horwood, nr bletchley, bucks. subtitled "sf directions" this must be the largest (120 10x8 pages) and most forlooking issue of this mag yet. well printed on blue paper, neat design it attempts to cover the growing sf field in the literary terms it deserves - via poem, story, critical article & illustration. henry luc planchat / goldbarth / connors / reeves / rene char / lunde / & many others. numerous short sf stories translated from european languages. the feel of the mag is one of the vastness of the field, its huge possibilities plus its reality. a very good issue indeed.

The Eyes of Angels by ross fitzgerald. S1.00. saturday centre. box 140, po cammeray, nsw, australia 2062. a young poets first collection, introduction and huge praise by david holbrook.

Fields (4) adrian flavell. po mylor, sa 5153, australia. the editor thinks this might be his last issue, somehow i think it wont be. another example of a down-under mag just emerging from the swamp of battered mimeoness. litho produced but still mimeo presentation. ds long / langford / reeves / lang / connors / pilcher / buttrose / & others

The Flying Fish by laurence clarke. the association of orientally flavoured syndics. 18 currie ave, aukland 4. NZ. glossy production u/g styled cartoon strip, rather unoriginal these days even if very well drawn.

Heart 47 williamson rd, para hills. 5096, sa. australia. typical australian little mag again, very rough mimeo format but getting better as issues progress.
no 1 edwards / pilcher / butrose / rae desmond jones / & others
no 2 coady / limbert / boyce / f lavell / coxhill / harvey / horsam / & more

Kinky Mammals by phillip chanel. $1.50. saturday centre. box 140, cammeray, nsw 2062. poems for children on the wallaby, dingo, wombat, koala and other australian beasts. i hope that the rather unfortunate title does not bear the same connotations down-under as it does here.

Pathways into the Brain by dennis list. $1.80. caveman press. box 1458, dunedin, nz. admirable paperback production, good cover, clean print but what an awful load of rubbish inside. list leads us into each poem with an egotrip comment. the poems are not much better. a pity.

Ploughman's Lunch gery oliver. 12 wolseley rd, lindfield, n.s.w. 2070. a neat mimeo with the, by now, typical australian line up - locals plus uk littlemaggers.
no 1 darlington / horsam / witty / male / karen hughes / &c.
no 2 rae desmond jones / coady / john edwards / boyce / flavell / &c.

Ratz by Joanne Burns. $1.50. Saturday centre. box 140, po cammeray, nsw, australia 2062. highly liberated and very free form poems by the overrated down under woman wonder. its not that bad really.

The Saturday Club Book of Poetry $1.50. pat laird. box 140. po cammeray, 2062, australia. this mag, despite its title, is streets ahead of its local contemporaries production wise although its content is uneven. gives a good, broad and rather mainstream picture of australian new poetry.
no 3 mudie / ewers / carr / fitzgerald / zizis / wright / cannon / darlington / boyce / flavell / slade / &c.
no 4 joanna burns/ laird / nixon / rae desmond jones / ortloff / & more.
no 5 bate / burns / washburn / slade / mundie / kan / blood / &c.

The Snow & The Glass Window by peter olds. caveman press. box 1458, dunedin, nz. crisp pamphlet poetry. olds shows he's capable in structure & form yet will insist on a neo-beat style, an weak buk / wantling imitation voice. so strange coming from the environment it does.

Time & Time Again by norman simms. 90c. caveman press. box 1458, dunedin, nz. broad based subject matter & strong form from an american now living in new zealand.

Tweed (4) janice m bostok. box 304, murwillumbah, nsw, 2484, australia. neater than most, uneven selection of small mag-ers. weyman / flavell / shea / berg / & others.

The Walled Garden by russell haley. the mandrake root. 90 queen st, northcote, aukland 9, NZ. some new ideas & some old ideas. good book production.

Your Friendly Fascist (10) roe desmond jones. box A487, sydney south po, nsw 2000, australia. the longest lived, the worst produced and the most spirited of the new mimeo mags. boyce / lenihan / darlington / flavell / edwards / long / pilcher / sneyd / elsberg / leon spiro/& others.


elsewhere

Am Here Books run by richard aaron at 1867 ollon, vaud, switzerland deals in rare concrete poetry, letters, american magazines etc. with a specialization in william burroughs material.
catalogue available of op and regular retail items.

Angulos Amodulo by clemente padin. edizioni amodulo. milanino sul garda, 1-25089 villanuova sul clisi, italy. a kinetic poem based on the letter "Y" or the corner of a room. not very exciting.

Arma Blanca by ricardo zarak. ediciones participacion. apartado 6624, panama 5. poetry. clear production. spanish text.

Asa (vol 6 no 6) seiichi niikuni. 44 yukigayaotsuka-cho, ota-ku, tokyo, 145 japan. the now famous magazine of concrete & specialist texts. dual text in english and japanese with a great many very interesting items. mainly home-grown but a lot from elsewhere. the selection for this issue forms a pretty good anthology of what goes in concrete today. gerz / solt / bory / ishii / blaine / spatola / higgins / zurbrugg / kajino / xisto / de vree / seki / cobbing / finch / garnier / ulrichs / valoch / &c.

Assemblyline Fliessband ed: thomas niggl. omnibus press. 8 muenchen 40, hohenstaufenstr. 7, germany. offset "new text" poems, writings, visuals. german text in the main.

Ca Bala (10) L200. piero santi. v.calzolari 11, 50061 compiobbi (firenze) italy. italian text u/g mag of political and social satire. many cartoons. 24 pages.

Cheval D'Attaque (5) F9.00. d.paschal lejeune. 44 ave de paris, 94300 vincennes, france. french text literary magazine on the sharp side of mainstream. special maurice delaistier issue illustrated by cart weissner's collages.

Contemplation by karf-heinz knauff. selected poetry in english, well printed and free from the poet at 6 frankfurt / main 1, neuhausstrasse 3, germany.

Dancing With You by ulises carrion. in-out productions. reguliersgracht 103, amsterdam, holland. dancing instructions taken out of context making an amusing found text. mimeo format and much too long for one idea.

De Tafelronde (vol 18 no 1) paul de vree. camille huysmanslaan 46, antwerpen, belgie. the continuing mag of european new poetries, the visuals, the concretes, the other experiments. peter meyboom / perfetti / luk steels / michael joseph phillips / & many others.

El Gran Zoo by haroldo gonzalez. casilla correo 180, montivideo, uruguay. "gorilla" piece on the two kinds. spanish text. small book.

Esquema Grada 13 by clemente padin. ovum. casilla de correo 2454, la cruz de carrasco, montivideo, uruguay. spanish text algebraic language experiments.

Eternites Blessees de Gestes by matthieu messagier. electric press. 67 rue nollet, 75017, paris. long poem. french text. terrible unbound letterpress production.

Eureka (4) 30p. allan burgis. tellusborgsv. 45 b, 3tr., 126 33 hagersten, Stockholm, Sweden. getting better all the time, eureka deals in exciting english poetry, swedith work in the original language plus translation, prose works and illustrations. a goodly read. paul brown / buck / torrance / sharkey / pilcher / jim burns/di pal ma / gogarty / haslam / nations / tina morris/lykiard / hoida / lopez / & many others. well worth the asking price.
no 5 another high flying issue: burns / cunliffe / fylkeson / lykiard / knight / pilcher / oxley / tipton / tate / sharkey / randelf / goumas / found poems, childrens work, graphics, the lot.

Experimenta exhibition catalogue from galeria de arte daniel, los madrazo, 16 bajo, madrid 14. conceptual art, experimental poetries etc. brown print on individual sheets, no names. all a bit blurred and confusing.

Galeria Sztuki Aktualnej "the actual art's gallery" ul. henryka poboznego 9, 50-241 wroclaw, poland. a guide book including many photos and polish text to the work of the young conceptual styled artists working in warsaw. print is blurred but some of the ideas are good.

Hot Raz Times (1) urban gwerder. box 2468, CH-8023 zurich, Switzerland. after running europes longest lived u/g mag "hotcha" for many years urban has now gone over the top in his admiration for frank zappa. he has formed the zapparchives and requests material for this and has begun publishing a very strange mag indeed based around zappa, using direct photos and interviews together with zappa inspired pieces of cut up, visuals etc etc. its an odd mix but somehow very exciting.

The Incredible Upside-Downs of Gustave Verbeek real free press, oude nieuwstraat 10, amsterdam a clever comic book that presents one image and one story one way up and a different set when turned upside down. two strips for the price of one. good production.

information - contra-information by toth gabor. edizioni modullo, milanino sul gardia, 98052 miflenuova sul clisi, italia. a booklet of visual semantics. twisted letter forms and other experiments. interesting enough, the stretching of letters out as far as they can go, yet not as visually exciting as it should be.

International Artists Cooperation run by klaus groh, roter steinweg 2a, D-2901 friedrichsfehn, germany puts out a series of 4 page leaflets printing scraps of info and addresses in a highly confused format as well as publishing minibooks (paid for by author) the latest of which is no 31 "landscapes" there is also news of an archive. this means you sent your material to klaus groh for free and he puts it on his bookshelf. should you be in that part of germany you may (no doubt) visit and look at the archive. if you are not in that part of germany, and most of us are not, then its pretty useless. there are too many so called "archives" around. on the other hand klaus groh might be genuine, its so hard to tell at a distance.

Langer Vers - Bill Bread by herman damen. Hf1 25. ibisdreef 400, utrecht. holland. "mobilizing language 1966-1972". one of the largest and most lavish solo concretist collections i've yet to see. damen is a dutch experimentor in most of concretes directions and this 200 page silver covered monster of a book uses everything from photograph to fold out in order to show off the poet's intentions. the joy in this collection is the combination of variety, visual excitement and fine quality colour printing on a selection of papers there are pages you look through, pages with cut outs, kinetic sequences, braile poems, and on and on. favorites of mine include the photo of the poet throwing books into a concrete mixer, the purple finger marks of "seizure on both sides", damen's cow and footprints. a bumper book worth a million concrete magazines. more strength to the man's arm.

L'Artere Digitee D'Aurore by Jacques Ferry. Electric Press. 67 rue nollet, 75017, paris. fine production. french text. poems.

Living Hand (1) $2.50. michell Sisskind & Paul Auster. 29 rue descartes, paris 5. english language magazine of, in the main, translated work. policy is to give each poet a lot of space to move. quality is excellent, balance between poetry and prose, high class print. celan / lydia davis / bataille / mandelbaum / john taylor / & others.

Maat po box 27, abeokuta, nigeria. "an avante-garde of the new age" which means a couple of mimeo sheets running an article entitled "do the dead come back". ho hum.

Mananaun 2133 ottersberg, amtshof, germany. a large, multi-colour print, well designed anthology of what would appear to be pop, & new music poetry. german & english text. jandl / robert creeley / mcgough / ian hamilton finlay / macbeth / bill wyatt / mike horovitz / a feature on principle edwards / etc etc. the whole anthology is made with care and good design.

Message To and From the Universe by hadassah Haskale. Wind Press. 12 rachel hamishoreret, jerusalem, israel. poems & drawings.

New Reform Nieuws (18) d'hondt roger. groenstraat 110 - 9300 aalst, belgie. a mimeo set up that gives news of a very far out gallery. details of their postal exhibitions, multiple publications, events, etc etc.

Not Fit for the Queen by paul buck. 50p. sup-pressed limitations, amsterdam. available in the uk from 12 foster clough, hebden bridge, yorks (where i have a feeling it was, in fact, run off). a highly experimental piece of prose involving misuse of mimeo, correction, alteration, cut-up., time switch and a thousand other techniques not pinched from burroughs and the rest, its an original and very difficult work.

Now stewart brown. box 225, st anns bay po, st ann, jamaica. 50p uk sub. 10p per issue. a caribbean mimeo poetry mag that runs as much local material as it can get hold of and bolsters that with uk and usa poetry, book reviews etc. standard is good, all things considered.
no 2 wayne brown/ brathwaite / sneyd /darlington / cairncross / etc.
no 3 buttress/ hendricks / grubb / gonzales / miller / mcneil / & others.

Ophir (17) 50c. peter horn. south africa. uk dist by martin booth, 15 keats way, rushden, northants. no longer the pocket size, tiny poem mag - ophir spreads its pages, grows a spine and gives its contributors room to move in all directions. don maclennan / roger skelton / piers devies / michael macnamara / & walter saunders. good stuff.
no 18 barry edgar pitcher / bowering / jensma / sheila fugard / eybers / & others.

Otravez (2) jose martial guedez. barrio "la matica", escuela "simon rodriguez" los teques, edo. miranda, venezuela. spanish text literary magazine.

Ovum (2nd series no 1) clemente padin, casilla 2454, la cruz de carrasco, montivideo, uruguay. the new A4 series of this south american experimental poetry magazine uses the assembling approach with contributors printing their own contributions. a mixed bag. kostelanetz / joseph / &c.

Porcelaine Cow-Boy by jean-jacques faussot. electric press 67 rue nollet, 75017, paris. short, neat, structured poem. french text.

Poudrier De Dent (1) jean-jacques faussot. 67 rue nollet, 75017, paris. the magazine of the electric press. michel bulteau / burroughs translated into french by claud pelieu / jacques ferry / geoffrois / messagier / mick trean / & others. french text.

Powerhouse Pepper by basil wolverton. F2. real free press. oude nieustraat 10, amsterdam. english text, dutch produced comic. strong guy theme. clean enough for kids. not all that funny and hardly u/g.

Pro 'dm. bulkowski. 4 dusseldorf, zietenstr. 61, germany. a solid, spine bound mag of the new poetries, conceptual art, visual experiments etc. plus a large listing of other publications. german text.
no 21 nannucci / todorovic / hans-peter feldmann / plus a sequence on language systems by the editor.
no 22 claus boehmler / cornelius cardew / & others. much work in the style of diter rot.
no 23 joint language systems between bulkowski & landfried schropfer / plus listings.

Publication Periodique De Serigraphs run by jean-pierre point, rue th. debaisieux, 209 B 1020 bruxelles, belgium is a numbered series of limited edition lithographs. these are available only by post, are limited in number, and runs to a series of 20 different prints. the prints themselves are superb, high quality paper, soft colours, with a subject matter usually something to do with the nude. at least a nude appears in all six different ones that i have here. subscription price to the series is £24.00. Orders may be made through second aeon magazine.

Sang De Satin by michel bulteau. premiere personne. chez jacques veuillet 57, bvd pasteur, paris. de-lux production. poems. french text.

Schema Informazione ed: alberto moretti & maurizio nannucci. via della vigna nuova, 17 firenze, italy. italian text post concrete. photographs of works and statements by nannucci / parmiggiani / chiari / gerz / masi / mangold / luthi / & numerous others. highly visual, large format.

7, Retomba Des Nuits by michel Bulteau. Aglis Press. 67 rue nollet, 75017, paris. one of these awful things printed on delux paper and unbound. french text. poems.

The Signalist Documentation Centre at dobrinjska 3, belgrade, yugoslavia has put out a series of well produced postcards of miroljub todorovic's poems including "alphabet", "lunometer", "anagrams", "signalism manifestation", "gordian knot", "communication", "cosmic communication" & others. from the same publishers comes a crylic script newspaper containing a large range of european concrete poems including bory / padin / garnier / gerz / furnival / valoch / gibbs / finch / vigo / peter mayer / hausmann / de vree / cobbing / carrega / higgins / & others.

Sonnet(s) by ulises carrion. in-out productions. reguliersgracht 103, amsterdam. mimeo with a plastic cover. one sonnet typed in numerous different ways and given an equal number of different titles. clever. difficult to pull off. worth getting hold of.

Stereometire by henry w targowski. daley news. post bus 634, amsterdam. a joke collage book which consists only of fragments of other works & publications. solid dada.

Tell me what sort of wall paper your room has and I will tell you who you are by ulises carrion. in-our productions. reguliersgracht 103, amsterdam. a book of wallpaper pieces with "my friend's room" and the like overprinted onto each page. out of date dada.

Time Pieces is the title of an exhibition of the visual poetry of g.j.de rook at the in-out centre, reguiliersgracht 103, amsterdam. with the show come three minimal styled booklets "life", "artistical solidarity for 1974" & "......... is g.j.de rook".

Transfiguration by bruce hewett. children of atlantis. box 11438, capetown, rsa. flimsy litho booklet of mystical and multireligious poems. illustrated.

Writing in Holland and Flanders (32) the qtly bulletin of the foundation for the promotion and translation of dutch literary works. singel 450, amsterdam-C. translations by peter nijmeijer & tamar karet. poetry & prose well presented. english text. lucebert / snoek / kopland / etc plus fokkema's article on the directions of dutch poetry.

Wounded Knee by werner verstraeten. 10 mriaanstraat, 2000 antwerpen, belgium. long poem dedicated to the pan-am-indians. dual dutch / english text. folder format.

Attitudok is an exhibition catalogue of hungarian conceptualists & new poets available from i. Geller, 7625 Pecs, Kis Jozsef u'T 8/1 hungary. exchanges are welcome.