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Rupert Loydell, Editor

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Current Articles

TOUCH ME HERE AND HERE
The Erotics of Geography

OPTIMISM AND PROPHECY
Nathaniel Tarn's The Embattled Lyric

A HYMN TO CONTORTED BEAUTY
Blaugast: A Novel of Decline

IDENTITY THEFT
Stephen Mooney's District & Circle Line Project

SINGING IN THE ORCHARD
Andy Brown on Brigit Pegeen Kelly

HAUNTED BY THE PAST & FUTURE
John Welch and D.S. Marriott reviewed

CON BRIO
new books from Tim Thorne and Paul Stubbs

RITE OF RETURN FOR JAMES BROWN
David Annwn's jazz-spun purple plexity

DELIGHTFUL CLOCKWORK
Michael C. Boyko's The Hour Sets

IF YOU ARE SITTING UNCOMFORTABLY...
James Mc Laughlin is not a bad person

IMAGE DISTURBANCE
Mark Goodwin is evolving behind cardboard

LAYING SIEGE TO AN EMPTY FORTRESS
John Welch's Collected Poems

WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO
David Grubb is remembering to forget

JOE BOSWELL IS CURRENTLY READING

AS IF BY SUGGESTION AND NOT BY WISH
short prose by Martin Stannard

ECHO OBJECTS & THE EVIL
On the right track? asks David Hart

GONE WRONG IN TRANSLATION
Pilot Johann the Carousel Horse

A RUSH OF FEELING
Jay Ramsay's Out of Time

THE RAIN IS THE RAIN IS THE RAIN
Matt Fallaize is dieting on silence

HATE WAS APT FOR THE JERKING SLIDE
Suneel Mehmi's jettisoned emotion

TIME NOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN WAY
Ian Seed's 'Composition'

DISAPPOINTING PSALMS
Brian Clements' righteous anger

PEN BETWEEN MY TEETH
Tony Lucas' new poems

SENDING OUT A DOVE
Ackland, McCully and Lucas reviewed

MATTER OF FACT WONDERING
Andy Brown on Annie Dillard

A NICE GREEN BOOK
lots of animals in it too

FUCK MODERNISM
Of course Paul Sutton read
George Orwell in his youth

Chapter 15: NAKED TEA
Chuck Woww corners Burroughs

ON THE RIGHT PATH
Gerry McGrath's A to B

THAT SORT OF BOOK
Dreaming of Walls Repeating Themselves

BRILLIANT!
Bloodaxe's In Person anthology

RADIUS OF LIGHT
Sarah Law and Joshua Auerbach
walk in circles

DIAL-UP FOR SOLO VOICE
and other new works by Rebecca Eddy

LIVES THAT HAVE A CLAIM ON US
Angela Topping's new poetry collection

THE EBB AND FLOW
Andy Brown's storm berm

AN OBSESSIVE EYE
Rupert White reviews The St Ives Artists

BOM CHUCKA WAH WAH
from South of Suburbia

BOB THE BARD
Yoik!

THE LIVING AND THE DEAD
Kelvin Corcoran's Backward Turning Sea

FOUND AND LOST IN TRANSLATION
three new books of Chinese poetry

LAYER BY LAYER
Stephen Romer's The Yellow Studio

IGGY POP ON THE ROOF OF 7-11
and other poems by Jennifer Olds

LEARNING YOUR LETTERS
The Epistles of Mark Jarman

GRACE & GOOD WORKS
Sylvia Townsend Warner's legacy

JUST ANSWER THE QUESTIONS!
Stride Publications R.I.P.

LATE READING FOR LENT
four new Shearsman titles

HIDES, HYPHENS AND A HARE
pamphlets and a shiny paper paperback

THE GOOD POLEMICIST
Kym Martindale on Iain Bamforth

STRANGE ROUTES APPEAR IN THE MUSIC
Keith Jafrate's New

CALL ME JADED BUT...
Rupert Loydell's recent reading

MODERNISMS
mumbo-jumbo artspeak and color as field

from WARRANT ERROR
Robert Sheppard is off the books

WEARING THEIR ORIGINS ON THEIR SLEEVES
new books by James Berry and Kei Miller

ANSWERS ON A POST CARD PLEASE
new poetry by Nathan Thompson

HUMANITY AND SKILL
three new poetry collections

LOVELY THINGS WHICH PASS
Charlotte Mew's Selected Poems

GIVEN VOICES
James Harpur's poems & translations reviewed

THE GRACE OF AFTERMATH
four poems by Anna Reckin

ON THE MAP OF SELDOM MENDED
Peter Dent is having a copyright clear-out

I HAVE A GOD I CALL ALMANAC
Elizabeth Barbato is sick of being sung to

ONLY VISITING THIS PLANET
Larry Norman R.I.P.

IN ANOTHER LAND
Alan West remembers Larry Norman

NEVER MIND THE DEVIL
IT'S SKILL THAT'S IN THE DETAIL
Jane Routh reviews three new titles

MEMORY TONES
new poems by Tim Fletcher

EXILE AND WANDERING
Bei Dao's essays

CROSS CURRENTS & SHIFTING BOUNDARIES
New Poetries IV reviewed

THE MOVEMENT
by Phil Terry

THE UNSETTLEDNESS
David Hart on Celan

PASTS, PRESENTS & FUTURES
Reviews of new books by Peter Robinson,
Gregory Woods and Cliff Ashby

from AURORA
a novel by Carolyn Hart

JOE BOSWELL IS CURRENTLY READING
David Shrigley & Richard Dawkins

THROUGH THE PRISM
Catherine Hales on Waterwork

COMPLEX & RANDOM
Bill Greenwell on Beat Sound, Beat Vision

TOO REFLECTIVE, TOO FIERCE, TOO ENGAGING
Meredith Andrea on Adrienne Rich

LOOKING AT GLASS CEILINGS
Ira Lightman on Jeffrey Wainwright on Geoffrey Hill

THE MIND AS LIBRARY
William Oxley on Jorge Luis Borges

THE RESUSCITATOR AS A YOUNG VOLCANO
Alan Halsey on A. David Moody on Ezra Pound

CONTINGENCIES OF LIGHT
Robin Lindsay Wilson & Simon Turner

INVITED IN TO AN EXCLUSION
David Caddy is The Man in Black

OF WIND & SHEER AIR ALONE
Mike Barlow on Gyrfalcon

MARKING HIS TERRITORY
Jane Seal on J.P. Greene

PINWHEELS, ELECTRIC SHEARS
AND PAINTED WOODEN WHEELBARROWS
Gregory Lawless waits out the wind

MAPPING OUT THE TERRAIN
New artistic and literary guidebooks

NO CONSOLATION AT ALL
Adam Burbage is on the lip of a hangover

STUFFED WITH STRANGENESS
Valeria Melchioretto's The End of Limbo

RUMINATIONS & ODD CORNERS
David Hart's recent reading

FRAGMENTS AND IRRELEVANCIES
Richard Price's Greenfields

WHAT'S WRONG WITH
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Richard Kostelanetz doesn't do lying

GRUMPY & TWITCHY
Alan West shares Zoe Brigley's secret

IVF, TROTSKY, HAZARD & PROSPECT
Meredith Andrea reviews three new books

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
Edward Thomas's Poets

BEST OF 2007
The Editor's picks

A DRIVE-THRU RELIGIOUS ENCOUNTER
new poems by Iain Britton

A SEEDBED OF IDEAS
Maurice Oliver cycles up the Eiffel Tower

OH YOU DO NOT KNOW
Sarah Law likes to cut things fine

DOGWOOD TREMBLING AT THE PANE
James Midgley is surprised and happy

UGLY HELL GAPE NOT
Sean O'Brien and Dennis O'Driscoll reviewed

SWALLOW MY TONGUE
Sophie Mayer is onomastic

SPACE INVADER
Meredith Andrea and The End of Limbo

DARK WINDOWS TO A COUNTRY NEVER SEEN
Ian Seed is purloined

STRIPPED
Angela Readman's porn stars & pin-ups

WHAT TIME DOES THE WRONG TRAIN LEAVE?
ask Glenn R. Frantz

I'VE POSTED A LETTER TO GOD
declares Rodney Wood

FORMER FRIENDS AND ENEMIES
Richard Kostelanetz exposes
Joseph Epstein's "friendship"

SHORT REVIEWS OF RECENT TITLES
Giles Goodland gets stuck in

NATIONAL LITERATURES
Irish and Polish writers on writing

FIRST IMPRESSIONS LAST
Mike Barlow on Richard Howard

STRONG WRITING.
SHARED WRITING.
Saints of Hysteria reviewed

THE DAY'S FINAL BALANCE
Michael Peverett on Peter Riley

A FLY IN EVERYBODY'S OINTMENT
new poems by Peter Dent

ANXIOUS MUSIC
Alan West on April Ossmann

DANCE MOVES IN DRY ICE
Nathan Thompson's 'Water Cycles'

A FORM OF FAKERY
Robert Garlitz on Embryos and Idiots

SHARING THE EXPERIENCE
Annie Clarkson is in the Land of Trees

A FAIR AMOUNT OF COMMON GROUND
Spencer Selby & M.T.C. Cronin

A KAFKAESQUE CLOWN
Talk Poetry reviewed

VOICE LINES & FORGOTTEN SOURCES
new poems by Andrea Moorhead

THE SAKE OF WORDS IN ORDER
Hannah Silva walks back into density

A BIT OF A SONG AND A DANCE
Lots of new Salt titles reviewed
and William Cirocco too

ROUND THE RUGGED ROCKS
A visit to Blaneau Ffestiniog

THE TRUTH BEYOND THE EQUAL SIGN
Karen Solie's Modern & Normal

MIXED MESSAGES
Peter Dent is waiting for the liveliest spark

SITES UNSEEN
Peter Gillies on Landscape & Vision

WISE COMMENTS & REVEALING MOMENTS
David Hart on Don't Start Me Talking

FROM THRILLING TO THRILLED
John Mingay on four new poetry book

FOUR FIRST-TIME FULL COLLECTIONS
new Salt and Shoestring titles

YES, I HAVE HELD THE PLATONIC EGG-BEATER
Bob Hicok is irrefutably mutable

THE NAUSEA OF CONSTANT ROTATION
Paul Sutton slept with his head in a vice

POEMS FROM GUANTANAMO
reviewed by David H.W. Grubb

SARAH LAW REVIEWS...
'Three weird sisters in wayward
linguistic practice'

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