as the rushes were – Francesca Lisette

£8 (£1 P&P). 13pp.

This pamphlet collects poems – including Tar Orchid, published separately as a broadside last year – written between February 2008 and February 2009. Machine-printed but otherwise hand-made copies, with cover artwork by Paul Alexander Thornton, and designed using a new typeface by Daniel Rhatigan.

In the recent Openned Zine Issue 2, Luke Roberts said THIS about Lisette’s recent work: “… toying with obscurity, confident measure, I think actually being deliberately secretive as a form of intimacy, or a way of controlling intimacy. The highly ornate vocabulary of her poetry establishes a strange relationship with the listener: the way I follow Lisette’s work is like a grid, or aspects and planes of meaning and signifying which are constantly shifting. Maybe these grids and aspects and planes are attached to bodies, or at least a you and an I, even if those poles get repeatedly flipped and turned and examined.”

http://www.grasp-press.co.uk

Praxis Etudes – Justin Katko

“Justin Katko is nay one afraid to build multiple bunkers and is, well, quite luckily, one of the most threatening poets writing today. In arche and future and tender curve to present, the notion of persona does no righteousness of fire to Katko’s affectivity and nerved up prosodic methods. Reader of this, read this book and admire.”

Via Josh Stanley. More here.