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This book was selected by Iain Sinclair to be one of his Christmas recommendations for 2007: "Nostalgia for Unknown Cities by the poet Ken Edwards (Reality Street) is the wild card: hypnagogic derangement as the urban dream dissolves before our eyes." More details here.

John Hall
APRICOT PAGES

 

A story, like a journey, always appears to be going somewhere. The characters in this one would probably like that to be true but are by no means clear about a destination. Although Apricot Pages was written in the 1970s, and many of the individual "pages" appeared then in magazines, this is its first publication as a whole

 

"Apricot Pages is quite something: to say it revives some of the sensation of furtively enjoying reading allegedly ‘difficult’ texts at 18 is not to say it’s old hat." Roy Fisher

 

John Hall is a poet, teacher and essayist, whose first poems were published in 1966. He was included in the anthology A Various Art and a selected poems came out in 1999 under the title of Else Here. Much of his recent writing has taken the form of visual poems. He has worked at Dartington College of Arts for many years.

 

2005, 1-874400-32-6, price £6.50, 82pp
 

 

 

JohnHall2005Couldn't You?, a collection of page-based poems written since Else Here, will be published by Shearsman towards the end of 2007.

 

Link to John Hall's website: www.johnhallpoet.org.uk

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