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Cogar (1) comhaltas ceoltoiri eireann, 6 harcourt st, dublin 2. newsprint format mag dealing with traditional irish music. dual english / gaelic text.

Penetration (1) 10p. paul welsh. 13 westholm ave, heaton chapel, stockport, music featuring hawkwind & gong, cinema, steve sneyd short story, poetry.

Inside and Deep Deep Down He Stands by philip goddard. 50p. 28a church rd, guildford, surrey. another example of a poet going it alone and publishing himself, a good production job too "poems of a being and the machine".

From Inside the Prison Camp 25p. salamander imprint. 3 cadogan sq, london sw1. bangladesh poems. proceeds to go towards providing a school in bangladesh.

Invisible City (10) 75c. red hill press. 6 san gabriel drive, fairfax, ca 94930, usa. pavese / majakovski / rilke / john montgomery / radnoti / depestre / hirschman / stern / & more.

Humandesign (13) L.700. LEM editrice corso s. gottardo n.22, 20136, milan, italy. new direction in the visual arts.

Dretch Exsibilate Magazine 30p. 32 east towers, pinner, middx. mimeo poetry, not too good a standard of work nor production.

6D (5) 3p. john towson. 50 upper brow rd, paddock, hudds. "a community paper for huddersfield district". offset production.

Two Elegies by eric mottram. 10p. poet & peasant books, 8 findhorn ave, haves, middx. more strong stuff from the editor of the poetry review, and pleasing production too.

Catonsville Roadrunner (51) 8p. 28 brundretts rd, manchester 21. red spirit theatre / gypsies / evictions / james connolly & the irish hope / letters / reviews / namibia / &c.

Schmuck "czechoslovakia issue". selection and design by milan knizak. beau geste press, langford court south, cullompton, devon. czeck minimalists & conceptualists. multi colour splash printed
scribble jump & sing.

Ambit (57) 25p. 17 priory gdns, london n6. ivor cutler / abigail mozely / blakeston / adcock / wilks / jim burns / ewart / nye / & others.

Treefall by peter symes. 25p outposts pubs. copies from 157 balham high rd, london sw 12. good print job of another typical outposts collection.

Selected Poems of James Clarence Mangan 75p. gallery press. 19 oakdown rd, dublin 14. a fine 100 page reprint of the finest irish poet before yeats. worth digging for.

Mojo Navigator(e) (4) $1.00. john Jacob. 764 pleasant ave, glen ellyn, ill 60137, usa. poems from montag / blazek / sobin / lifshin / britt / gitin / hiatt / 7c plus a cut out armadillo stand-up gleep.

One of our Agents is Missing by john jacob. cats pyjamas press. 423 s humphrey, oak park, il 60304, usa. minimal cut-up styled work.

The Book of Numbers by nick toczek. 25p. aquila / the phaethon press. 18 atherstone close, shirley, solihull. open prose poetry with all titles involving a number in one form or other.

Fourth Assembling $2.95. box 1967, brooklyn, new york 11202. see editor kostelanetz's article on "assembling" elsewhere in this issue. contributors include aldridge / franke / groh / gnazzo / ulrichs / hompson / higgins / krauss / nannucci / meltzer / & many others.

Bleabeck Press run by frederick grice from 91 harlow rd, worcester is a private set up putting on very small and very neat editions of grice's own poetry "four experimental poems" and "five experimental poems" both contain neat ideas while "motes" is more general but still lying on the concrete side of the fence. another do-it-yourself poet with goodly results.

Vagabond (17) $1.00. john bennett. box 879, ellensburg, washington 98926, usa. heavy mimeo poetry mag. fox / lifshin / masarik / bukowski / strom / gail white / linda king / locklin / & others.

Six Poets $1.00. vagabond press. box 879, ellensburg, washington 98926. hard edged stuff from al masarik / lyn lifshin / john thomas / ronald koertge / joel deutsch / & ann menebroker. mimeo format with drawings by charles bukowski.

221A Baker Street "the adamantine sherlock holmes" by hapi. $2.95. kanthaka press, 246 tappan st, brookline, mass 02146, usa. reworkings of and investigations into mr holmes. 144 pages, bound paperback. subtitled "the victorian book of the dead".

Flower Bed by phil silva. inca press. 945 coast bvd.s., la jolla, ca 92037, usa. "a book of love poems to be read in bed". pamphlet, offset.

Poetry Wales (vol 9 no 3) 40p. sam adams. christopher davies ltd., llandybie, ammanford, carms. a general issue with ken snow on rbt lowell / bryan martin davies on gwilym r. jones / cyril hodges
1915-1974 - a letter from meic stephens / earley / tripp / abbs / bidgood / curtis / clarke / pacey / hooker / &c.

Holy Cow (1) logan finlayson. 3 mansfield rd, london nw3. an exciting new magazine dealing with the visual aspects of literature, concrete, comics and the like. bad production so far but very strong on ideas. john welch / o'rourke / mackay / valoch / ehrenberg / &c.

Mr James Ghost Stories by bill griffiths. "printed as a critical account of mr james work at the new quaker and pirate presses." 107 valley drive, london NW9. experimental prose. mimeo.

War with Windsor by bill griffiths. pirate press. 107 valley drive, london nw3. poems & new fiction. exciting stuff. mimeo with screened cover.

Alternative London compiled by nicholas saunders. 85p. published jointly with wildwood hse, 1 wardour st, london w1. the 4th edition of this invaluable guide to drugs, flats, food, print, and all manner of alternatives. fine production and much refined information. a true handbook for city survival, and not just london.

Nails Dugout And Shipped by ulli mccarthy. 10p. poet & peasant. 8 findhorn ave, hayes, m'sex. typical mimeo mccarthy with nuttall on the drawings.

Wolves at the Door by mike dobbie with good drawings by nick james & jeff nuttall. 10p. poet & peasant books. 8 findhorn ave, hayes, m'sex. signed edition available at £1.00.

Bithuman (10) 25p. BIT, 146 great western rd, london W11. rolls & rolls of information and contact addresses. a fine publication and worth every penny of the asking price.

The Sea Bell & Other Poems by susanne knowles. 80p. dent. 26 albermarle st, london w1. a good range of poetry in a rather ill-designed format. paperback.

An Old Trick by paul smith. 10p. platform / green horse. avalon, london rd, stockbridge, hamps. small handprinted booklet of exciting poems. paul smith is a new one to watch.

Muse (4) 15p. geof charlton. 150 litchfield rd, rushall, walsall. going down production wise from its days at the birmingham poetry society but standards maintained. jaffin / dalton / nixon / hare / nigel jenkins / crowe / gettisburg / peter cash shouting / leon / &c.

The Nantucket Review po box 1444, nantucket, mass 02554, usa, a triquarterly edited by richard burns, richard crumbie, and louise meredith invites submission of fiction, poetry, plays, criticism, graphics, reviews, interviews, sections of novels, and longpoems. payment copies, occasional small cash. reports 4-6 weeks. $1.50 single copy. $4.00 a year.

Littack (5) 40p. william oxley. ember press. 27 brook rd, epping, essex. finaly cover / walter perrie "towards a radical empiricism / lawrence durrell / tom scott / tony rudolf / booth / mckinley / ronald duncan / jaffin / interview with macdiarmid / & much more. a brimming issue.

Magnus 10p. national union of students, 3 endsleigh st, london   WC 1. "magazine of the student movement", this issue on "crumbling colleges" plus lawrence upton on arts councils and on his new job in the publications dept of the students union.

Pointing Still by thomas a clark. 20p. arc. 11 byron rd, gillingham, kent. small, neat booklet of typical clark "found" pieces, these to do with old clocks.

Art Delinquency Notes by tony rickaby. 60p. 67 mordaunt st, london sw9. neat 20 page booklet rather highly priced. a direct follow up from his visual rock and roll sculpture book, this time in word alone with art and delinquency mixed together. fascinating stuff.

Casts by tony rickaby. 50p. 67 mordaunt st, london sw9. 50p. large format mimeo containing a bunch of rickaby's criptic, minimal short stories, each printed in the form of a square. a goodly read with my only comment being that there isnt enough of it.

Little Press Books in Print compiled by the association of little presses and available at 50p from the national book league, 7 albemarle st, london w1 is finally out. 110 pages detailing to publications of some 118 small presses.

Communes - the journal of the commune movement - welcomes creative contributions related to communal living and communities. write to dave puddy, trokes family, llanarth, ceredigion, cymru (wales).

Leaves and Ashes by john haines. $2.00. kayak/wcpr. 3965 bonny doon rd, santa cruz, ca 95060. poems, green paper & illustration.

Whole Cosmep Catalogue compiled by dick higgins. $4.95. dustbooks. 5218 scottwood rd, paradise, ca 95969. similar huge page size to the "whole earth catalogue" this book presents a page or so each to the many presses & small mags who are the members of cosmep. fascinating reading for anyone interested in this area of publishing. a superb production job.

Cavalier Seul didier paschal-lejune, b.p. 194, 75564 paris cedex 12, france. review supplement to cheval d'attaque, no 4 dealing with uk material. dual english / french text.

The Beat of the Heart by pete robinson & chris williams. 20p. poetry society of cambridge college of arts. 30 st barnabas road, cambridge. poetry & drawings, good value.

Breakfast edited by brian marley. laundering room press. 38 rokeby tce, heaton, n/cle on tyne. it may be either a mag or an anthology but whatever its damn good. mimeo format, crisp & full of vital & exciting work: benveniste / jackson/ hawkins/ macsweeney / gogarty / ulli mccarthy / raworth / crozier / eandell / pull out booklet of opal 1 nations / &c.

Truck (12) $2.00. david wilk. box 10, enosburg falls, vermont, usa. another good issue, thick, bound, "a vermont anthology" of poetry, fiction & photographs.

Kilroy was here until he died by sieve sneyd. 15p. hilltop press. 4 nowell place, almondsbury. huddersfield. small litho book of poems from a well known little magger.

Mantras edited by alan britt. $3.00. floating hair press. 4408 carlyle rd, tampa, fl 33615. "an anthology of immanentist poetry", not as good production as their book from the smith but just as zappy inside: locke / roth / wolven / benson / lustig / suarez / barfield / &c.

Hands Twining Grasses by martin booth. 50p. words press. crane bkshop ltd, high st, haslemere, surrey. some strong booth here, neat production but still rather expensive. sgd. copies @ f2.00.

Meadow 5 "we follow night" by alan britt. annarbor review press. 2118 arlene st, ann arbor, michigan 48103. small pamphlet bytone of the leading immanentists.

Sotto Voice (1) 15p. philip jenkins & joel dailey. quickest way out. 43a high rd, beeston, nottingham. new zippy mimeo. tomas a clark  / cobbing / dsh / nuttall / verey / zurbrugg / albers / horovitz / saroyan / ellis / nannucci / ulli mccarthy / &c. good stuff.

Centre (5) $1.50. carol berge. box 698, woodstock, ny 12498. new fiction mag, well produced, ahern / hostelanetz / gitin / weiners / knight / finch / katz / rubenstein / & many others.

UT Review (vol 2 no 4) 75c. duane locke. univ of tampa, florida 33606. basically immanentist poetry but plus a few side swipes. good production, plenty of juice. lustig / roth / wolven / finch / yakaitis / tom whalen / suarez / &c.

Cycles 8-16 by bill griffiths. 20p. pirate press / writers forum. 107 valley drive, london nw9. zooming new griffiths, one of the fastest rising new uk poets. mimeo production.

Words Broadsheets from words press, crane bookshop ltd, high st, haslemere, surrey. good quality production, design and content. no 5 charles causley & frank lissauer. no 6 micheline maurel.

Lutch Love by bernard j. kelly. prison clothes press no 5. 68 parkhill rd, london nw3. mimeo format. love poems by an improving kelly. sounds playing a strong part.

Time to Destroy / To Discover by lawence fixel. panjandrum press. available from 1504 willard st, san francisco 94117. a long and very solid poem. fixel is a pretty fair poet. printed.

The Scale of Silence by lawrence fixel. $1.50. kayak books. 3965 bonny doon rd, santa cruz, ca 95060. "parables", zippy fiction, good production.

The Sou'wester (vol 2 no 1) david rathbun. english dept.humanities div., southern illinois univ., edwardsville, ill 62065. predictable univ mag mix, good production. ignatow / ballowe / kornblum / deyoung / allen tate / shapiro / &c.

Spirit Level by anthony conran. £1.25. christopher davies, llandybie, cymru. superb production & cover design on this cloth 130 page collection of poetry. conran lets rip with numerous styles, heavy academic, free flowing to the almost experimental. fine value.

Sixpack (5) 60p. pierre joris. 19 deal rd, london sw17. still coming strong, sixpack now has a dual uk / usa identity, us money and a printed style to it. this issue guest edited by bill sherman: benveniste / weiners / mottram / bonner / lobb / taylor / & others.

Greenfield Review (vol 3 no 2) $1.00. joseph bruchac. greenfield centre, new york. "ethnic writers workshop issue with poetry & fiction from the american asian, chicano, puerto rican, & black communities. some good stuff.

The Alien Critic (7) $1.00. richard geis. box 11408, portland, or 97211. sf magazine with informative interviews & booklistings.

Pink Peace (9) 20p. john rice, mumbles, 93 biggins wood road, folkestone. final issue, another mag folding, this one due to lack of editors time. fair range of poetry from marshfield / toczek / rose / redgrove / shuttle / &c plus recent visual poetry section edited by peter finch and including adler / peter mayer / cobbing / furnival / dsh / ward / riddell / gibbs / & edwin morgan.

Spleen by nicholas moore. blacksuede boot press / menard. 6 sherard mansions, 46 well hall rd, london se9. a large collection of highly unusual translations of baudelaire's je suis comme le roi. taking translation almost as far as some canadian concretists. brilliant stuff.

Moschatel Press run by thomas a clark & his wife laurie from iverna cottage, rockness hill, nailsworth, gloucestershire is publishing minimal texts, visual poetry & the like in small neat booklets & postcards much in the manner of ian hamilton finlay & tarasque press but, and its a big but, very cheaply. 10p per card & 15p per booklet. some delightful objects include fritillary a clark found flower poem card, folding the last sheep which owes a little to robin crozier, horizon which reminds of finlay, fill in the drawing a real original, an epitaph which is more flowers and two booklets the garden & four flowers.

Prelude by hannah kelly. £1.75. omphalos press. rushden, northamptonshire. bad design, and vastly overpriced for a 28 page paperback.

Ludds Mill (10) 10p. steve sneyd, 4 nowell place, almondsbury, huddersfield.

Lovers & Other People by barry southam. $1.95. pegasus press. 14 oxford tce, christchurch, new zealand. poems, paperback.

The Kingfisher Catcher by stephen morris. 60p. aquila. 18 atherstone close, shirley, solihull. paperback, poems & illustrations. very fine production job.

New / Rediscovered Musical Instruments. edited by david toop. 75p. quartz / mirliton. 15 bayonne rd, london n6. text book of new ideas, amazing stuff.

The Village Review (4) 20p. 85 high st, orwell, royston, herts. another quiet issue.

Akros (vol 8 no 24) 30p. duncan glen. 14 parklands ave, penwortham, preston, lancs. mackie / crichton smith / black / hardie / lindsay / tait / oxley / & more.

Xenia (4) 15p. peter & ginny barnfield. 15 ladman rd, bristol. beake / ward / pickard / magee / sue jackson / bielski / & others.

Me, Jane & Kong by dave calder. 50p. raven books. 1st floor. 5 cases st, liverpool. fine production, illustrated book of poems, zips.

Us: Women by marjorie fletcher. $3.00. alice james books. 138 mt.auburn st, cambridge, mass 02138. fine paperback production by a poet right out of the women's movement. its strange stuff with lots of flying ends but something is certainly working.

Window Mirror by richard frost. 10p. 1 mozridge villas, all saints st., hastings. poems, mimeo.

Strath (4) 10p. michael park, 2 field cottages, heathencote, nr towcester. mimeo, poetry: sneyd / england / hoy / waddington-feather / mcneil / cameron / & others plus a few reviews

Saturday Club Book of Poetry (6) pat laird. box 140, po cammeray, nsw 2062, australia. neat print, jammed tight with local poetry.

Chapman (vol 2 no 4) 25p. walter perrie. drumpark, trinity gask, auchterarder, perths. european poetry issue: vafpooulos / popa / pilinszky / juhasz / weores / & others.

The Trans Siberian Railway by cornelia veenendaal. $3.00. alice james books. 138 mt auburn st, cambridge, mass. 02138. neat paperback. poetry.

West Coast Poetry Review (9) $1.50. 1127 codel way, reno, nevada, 89503. top rate production. dacey / blazek / ackerson / catullus / & others

Fiasco Publications run by kaptain mog from 31 belle vue st, filey, e yorks have a large selection of new spirit mimeo items and all of them clear & readable.

Bogg magazine has its 23rd issue @ 15p with the usual run of people and sucking "the bogg critical review supplement" comes as a separate magazine for the same price.

april 13 edited by paul berry is free for postage and is in fact paul berry on paul berry.

garbage, another free booklet contains poems from paul lamprill, dave wright, bruton connors & george cairncross himself.

Quarto Press of 69 swan rd, hanworth, feltham, m'sex wins the small press prize for production with two slim poetry books mirrors of the sea by william oxley & photographs of persephone by penelope shuttle (who does seem to be doing well for herself these days).

Indian Territory by h.i.van brunt. $3.00. the smith. 5 beekman st, nyc 10038, usa. quality poetry with production to match.

Tarot by jeremy adler. pirate press 107 valley drive, london nw 9. a new look in a rather unworkable format.

The Yellow House by alexandros baras, translated from the greek by yannis goumas. £1.50. green horse publications. avalon, london rd, stockbridge, hamps. heafty paperback.

Poets & Poetry (4) 20p. michael gettisburg. 6a culver st, colchester, essex. mimeo. poetry & many reviews.