Elliptical Movements

Riverside Scuffle, Peter Dent, Kaleidikon, 2026 Fly-By-Night Detail, Peter Dent, Offline Press, 2026 (if you’re interested in getting a copy of either, please contact me. The remarkable late flowering of Peter Dent continues unabated in these two most recent pamphlets from two of his own micro presses. To quote the opening lines of ‘Market Reaction’, […]

Inhabit the Brief Halt by Béatrice Douvre, Translated from the French and introduced by John Taylor, Bitter Oleander Press, 2025, ISBN: 979-8-9908228-1-8, $30.00 Inhabit the brief haltThe shore before the crossingThe fascinated distance that bleedsAnd the green stone at the arch of bridges For Béatrice Douvre, who suffered from anorexia from the age of 13 […]

Traveling, Paul Vangelisti, Shearsman Books, 2025, ISBN: 9781848619845 , £10.95 / $18 A Book of Psalms, Alan Baker, Shearsman Books, 2026, ISBN: 9781837380176 , £10.95 For a long time I think there was a general consensus that The Waste Land was the most influential of the poems written by the first generation of English-language Modernists. However, in […]