NORMAL TOWN POET
I contain multitudes’ B.Dylan The multiverse is according to wikipedia the hypothetical collection of all possible universes, which together contain everything that exists. The Multiverse is also a good nomenclature for the state of British poetry now. It is a poetry world increasingly ring-fenced and siloed by vested interests,multiple cliques and what are basically book-reading…
I was tipped off about this great free flipbook software by Anthony Howell. So here is my very first Poetry Pamphlet which I made on the Poetry Library London’s photocopier as that was mostly my job there. I made 25 and sold them for £1.50 (big money in 1990) and sold out although Ivor Cutler…
WICKERLAND? It’s like MOTHERLAND but without the humour..more AMANDA writes poetry…..god help us all. The above states chance to talk about real things like connection, love ,loss, creativity, purpose…. thats so nice not fake things like Iran, Gaza, Ukraine…at least it makes Class War seem so less futile.. IF THIS IS POETRY then POETRY IS…
I recently posted a Ted Gioia substack repost of a Elle Griffin report on Major Publishing traits none of it good…’nobody buys books’ … https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books Before long nobody will even print them especially in poetry. For the paper poetry magazine the writing been on the wall for a while see my response to Wendy Pratt…