Recent Books
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Mid Life 208 pp. June 2007. £11.95. ISBN-13 978-1-905700-39-4 Shearsman Books, 58 Velwell Road, Exeter, EX4 4LD A revised republication of A Whole Bauble Material. Notes to this book can be found at the page Notes to Mid Life.
A Sinner Saved By Grace 79pp, June 2005. This is in some ways a deliberately awkward book, that has met with little critical response. I suspect critics detect a certain awkwardness, and kindly hesitate to say as much.
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THE Music Laid her SONGS IN LANGUAGE 47pp, July 2001. This one was well-received. In fact, Robert Potts made it one of three 'Picks of The Year' in The Guardian, 2001. Me and Geoffrey Hill and Paul Muldoon. Fair enough, I thought.
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CONTINUAL SONG 90pp, 1986. This was the self-published volume that came (see the Name) to define the course of the oeuvre. I still have some stock at Foster Clough, available at the original price, £4.50 plus a quid for postage. Buy now. Pay Michael Haslam.
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A WHOLE BAUBLE (Collected Poems 1977-94) 260pp. Carcanet 1995. This volume is out of print, and I've reclaimed my copyrights, but second-hand copies seem to be available at www.abebooks.com Much of this 'Collected Poems' (all but Continual Song, Three
of My Chasms, and a couple of other poems) was in fact written (or
re-written) in 1994. See Bibliography.
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Poetry
A Bunch of Tales, in PNReview 166 (Nov-Dec 2005)
Running to Meter, in Skald 24 (March 2007)
http://www.skald.org/
Lyric in Blemish, in fragmente 9 (May 2007)
See News
Other
On Fool's Bracelet in Quid 17 (The Prynne Festschrift) see
www.barquepress.com
Interview conducted by Andrew Duncan (conducted 2004) titled Time Sprites
in a volume titled Don't Start Me Talking, from Salt (2007)
http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/sscp/9781844710799.htm
Samples
of new, unpublished work,
see Current Scribble.
Some Loose Talk:
The
trouble with the "loose net of congenial spiritual company" I referred
to on the home page is that it can become a comfort, an enclosure, a
sect, and we forget that The Real Thing can spring up anywhere, and
doesn't have to connect with the net of an 'us'. I remember having been
met with the eyebrow expressions of High Cambridge Scorn when I've
named the wrong sort of name. My take on what this net has been is
shown in the loose talk of Towards a Bibliography.
Its current shape gets expressed in for example, The Archive of The Now. There are
anthologies----Iain Sinclair's Conductors of Chaos for one, Richard Caddel & Peter Quartermain's Other for another, and there are others yet. But there are quite other other sources than our other.
I'm featured in two 2006 anthologies gathered by the extraordinary Barry Tebb. These are Beyond Stigma, and The Real Survivors Anthology (Sixties Press, 89 Connaught Road, Sutton, Surrey SM1 3PJ, www.sixtiespress.co.uk,
each £10, ISBNs 0-9529994-5-5 & 0-9529994-6-3, respectively.
These anthologies present a quite different range of poets, the only
other clear overlap being Ben 'Out to Lunch' Watson, his Capgrass Speculations in Beyond Stigma.
On the record, I reckon Barry Tebb and his
associates such as Brenda Williams and Daisy Abey are The Real Thing,
though they may inhabit a different poetical village.
I Am Against British Poetical Clique Xenophobia.
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