Member: ZBrigley

Thanks for the response - I found your collection very interesting - studied it for some time - and ordered the Andy Brown and the 'Kiss' (Polly Clarke?). I remembered Andy Brown from some poems in Shearsman (I think). Andy Brown's book arrived this morning along with Tiffany Atkinson's 'Kink and Particle'. Gwyneth Lewis's collection I read last year - along with her two prose books - a major poet. Your reviews are excellent - I'll have to concentrate a bit more on some of my 'throwaways'...'Miss Read's' reviews are also balanced and informative.

As you've only recently signed up I imagine that you have some more books to catalogue. I'm about half way through - oh God another 1000 - and only about a third of my poetry is on - it'll take another year because I index significant elements from contents pages - it really helps, and I'd never have found your closing 'Lizard' poem in 'Poetry wales - Forty years' 'and to bend again' lifting the poem into its final rich mix of predicates and sensations.

I think you've got a new book coming out in September? Amazon advertising your last one - but I think it is now o/p? It is exciting times in poetry publishing at the moment.

Best, Peter.

posted by peterbrown at 4:26 pm (EST) on Jul 17, 2007