Surroundings (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
A few quickies. First, the new issue of Sphinx is out. I always recommend this magazine and it looks particularly good this time round. It begins with a terrific interview with Tony Frazer, editor of Shearsman Press . Secondly, check out this fun, free-to-enter competition at the Magma blog, in which you choose a poem to ban from the school syllabus and say why in less than 300 words....
Polyolbion (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... arrived, and a real cracker it is too. So far I've only had chance to read the interview with Tony Frazer of Shearsman, which is worth the cover price alone. Shearsman have being going from strength to strength these last few years, and there are quite a few of their books that I'd number among those volumes I always like to have to hand, so it's great to hear just how Tony...
Carrie Etter (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Thanks to George Ttoouli for his kind remarks on the launch of The Son in Bath last week. And somehow only now have I come across an article published in El Mercurio (according to Tony Frazer it's Chile's equivalent of The Times ) on New Year's Eve in 2004. Tony Frazer translates the passage in which my name is mentioned thus: " As for poetry, the global scene is vast,...
Carrie Etter (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
If I work very hard over the next two to three months, work like an ant, a bee, a cadmium yellow insect, Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets will launch on schedule in March 2010. Indeed, the launch has already been scheduled by the perhaps-too-trusting Shearsman editor Tony Frazer, for Wednesday, 10 March 2010 at Swedenborg Hall in London. As many contributors either...
