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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.

Redell Olsen
SECURE PORTABLE SPACE

 

Four substantial sequences: Corrupted by Showgirls; Spill-Kit; Era of Heroes; The Minimaus Poems. The other Ols[e]n, from the other Gloucester.

 

"Full of recombinant surprise, filmic ambiguity and more: grippingly melancholic and witty explorations of the lite/noir courage and absurdity of culture, politics and gender..." - Joan Retallack

 

Redell Olsen lives and works in London, where she teaches on the MA in Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the managing editor of How(2), the internet journal for contemporary and modernist innovative writing by women.

 

2004, 1-874400-29-6, price: £7.50, 110pp

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