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British publishing always needs the supplement of such enterprises as Carcanet -- beautifully independent, skilfully managed, and by people with exceptional literary taste. It gives one heart that there are such people and such a press, and that they are too resourceful to succumb to the climate.
Sir Frank Kermode
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PN Review 152
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Noses and Feet#Jeremy Over
`Can I make a painting about the human spirit
without having to paint noses and feet'. Albert Irvin
What might be the lower half of a woman's face
or a boat or some clouds is all deliberately suggested
but never defined as a little boy,
totally engrossed in his game of cards, dissolves
into currents of line and patterns of coiling
tendrils, aquatic plants, spores, fungi and a snafu
of tangled film negatives that is forever
beginning at the beginning as we move through them
towards a quiet place where it is possible to breathe
and smell the salt upon the air, feel the wind
cold on our cheeks and remember something
which, to avoid getting all cluttered up,
we had forgotten once in a Persian miniature.
And so we come to the length of hose which
we'll use later on to make a garden of rainbows,
with a system of sprinklers and lights to shine through them.
In the middle of the night the house will be surrounded
by fans of water, light and colour. It won't be a house,
of course - it's a shape - but we'll read it as a house.
I don't think we need to apologise for this.
It just means we can do what we want
without falling off our chairs, so to speak.
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Title Information:
Series: PN Review
Imprint: PN Review
ISBN-10: 1 857546 74 1
ISBN-13: 978 1 857546 74 3
Edition: 1st
Format: Journal
Published: July 2003
Dimensions: 297x210mm
Pages: 80pp
Publisher: Carcanet Press
RRP: GBP£ 4.99
Discount: 10%
You Save: GBP£ 0.50
Price: GBP£ 4.49
Status: Available
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Table of Contents
1 Editorial
2 News & Notes
3 Letters from Peter Brennan, Alison Brackenbury, John
Lucas, Ronald Gaskell
Reports
5 Of Weights and Woodbines - Neil Powell
6 Meeting Tatamkhulu Afrika - Isobel Dixon
7 A Short Walk on the Wilde Side: Kipling's First
Impressions of Japan - Harry Ricketts
10 Stephen Raw's Memory Language - Andrew Motion
11 Letter from New Zealand from an ex-Poet Laureate
- Elizabeth Smither
12 Girls, Handsome Dogs & Stuffed Olives
- Marius Kociejowski
13 A Day from Sleep: (1) Coming To - Raymond Tallis
14 From a Journal - R.F. Langley
Poems
16 Four Poems - Robert Saxton
27 Four Poems - John Gallas
29 Five Poems - Jeremy Over
31 Snowed In - Michael Hamburger
37 Four Poems - John Fuller
39 Self-Story as Spheres of Egyptian Industry
- Monica Ferrell
46 Three Poems - Jane Weir
47 Two Poems - Ross Cogan
55 Two Poems - Michael Palmer
56 Two Poems - Chris Wallace-Crabbe
62 Three Poems - Eleanor Margolies
63 Four Poems - Stephen Burt
70 Selected Shaiku - Damian Grant
Articles
18 A Short History of the Poem in New Zealand
Painting - Gregory O'Brien
32 Ghost Worlds of the Ordinary: W.G. Sebald
and Gerhard Richter - David C. Ward
40 The Book of Repulsive Women: Djuna Barnes'
Unknown Poetry - Rebecca Loncraine
48 William Carlos Williams and Women (III)
- Herbert Leibowitz
57 'The Burning Baby' and the Bathwater (III)
- James Keery
64 Form and Function (II): Form and Technique
- N.S. Thompson
Reviews
71 on Poets on the Peaks - Colin Still
72 on Gabriela Mistral - James O'Connor
75 on Edwin Morgan, Douglas Oliver, Drew Milne
- Kate Price
76 on John Ash - David Kennedy
77 on Sally Purcell, Selima Hill and Mebdh
McGuckian - Kate Keogan
78 on John Lucas's Starting to Explain
- Roger Caldwell
79 on Peter McDonald's Serious Poetry - Nicolas
Tredell
Cover image: 'The Virgin and Child Compared' by Colin McCahon, 1948. Reproduced courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.
Cartoons: Martina Jirankova-Limbrick
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