[Hugh Barclay, with his Thee Hellbox Press] Another
listing of titles picked up at our most recent fair! See part one here and part two here, obviously. How much is too much? (We might need to build more
shelves)
Ottawa ON: It’s nice to
see a new small press offering from Toronto poet (and longtime editor of the Surrealist
Poets Gardening Association) Lillian Nećakov, her chapbook The Lake Contains an Emergency Room (Ottawa ON: Apt. 9 Press,
2015).
The
Lake Contains an Emergency Room
There are pacifists and
mongrels sitting here
there is no window to
look out of
you hold a small puddle
of blood up against your cheek
outside, I imagine the
clouds are blue
we have been waiting
hours
it has been 16 years
we wait our turn
you can no longer hold
a pencil
the doctor looks like a
rooster
night is finished
there is no smell to
pain
the needlework is
shoddy
the door remembers us.
There
is an odd humour and compelling candor to the surrealism of Lillian Nećakov,
one that seems very human in nature, exploring the surrealism of such tangible
subjects as gardening, the nature of origins, making soup, or a stroll through
the park.
Step
Away
Let’s return to an
empty chair
or we could weed the
garden
something to silence
the haunting
a thing to teach us to
carve bone
un-mouth the meanness
un-speak the dark
promises
murmuring over our
lakes
let’s return tonight
to our child’s skin
selfish, shirtless
bruised
let’s rage against the
tongue
stich together
all our dead relatives
and linger
regretless
on the wind.
Ottawa ON: After an extended period working on a variety of other projects [see my recent Jacket2 piece on him here], jwcurry has
been publishing again recently, with some recent oddbits including the
collaborative (and hand printed) tchts
(jwcurry and Rachel Zavitz) produced as CURVD H&Z 474 (31 oct 2014).
shadow planet
smithereens
at impact
The
small collaboration between curry and Zavitz is one of but a long line of
collaboration he’s been doing with multiple writers over the years. There is
something about this short sequence of three-line stanzas that have the tautness
of (English-language) haiku combined with an incredible precision that presents
the illusion of a single (as opposed to double) hand present in every line. To order
a copy, or inquire about other publications, write him c/o his new address:
#302-28 Ladouceur Avenue, Ottawa ON K1Y 2T1
Another
recent publication is the gestetnered INDUSTRIAL
SABOTAGE #64, as jwcurry writes in the colophon, “the ‘selfstarterkid’
issue,’ the first to appear (after a long hiatus: #63, Messagio Amor Some More,
was issued 13 april 2008),” featuring writing by a host of regular and
irregular contributors to curry’s wealth of publications: Michael e. Casteels,
M.R. Appell, P. Cob_, Lenore Cochrane, Jon Cone, Judith Copithorne, Marilyn
Irwin, Lance LaRocque, Billy Little, bpNichol, Jim Smith, Hugh Thomas and
Rachel Zavitz. One thing I’ve always admired about curry is his patience, fully
aware that he has said that for his letterpress printing, he has to like a poem
to produce it not once, but up to one or two hundred times (which makes one
wonder how many published pieces would actually survive the same criteria, even
from their own authors).
Apple
apple,
so to say, never again
uneaten
someone gave me a bump
on the head (Hugh Thomas)
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