if p then q Issue 4 now available

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if p then q issue 4 has finally arrived. To purchase go to THIS LINK

This is the last issue  of the magazine and  is packed full of all your favourites:

  • Caroline Bergvall – Cash for Questions and poem
  • Allen Fisher – 60 Second Interview and poems
  • Lucy Harvest Clarke – What’s in my Fridge and poems
  • Richard Makin – The Writer’s Room and poems
  • Joy as Tiresome Vandalism – Summer Sizzlers
  • Scott Thurston on Stuart Calton and Ira Lightman

    Also poems by:

  • Charles Bernstein
  • Philip Davenport
  • Ray DiPalma
  • Andrew Shelley

    Allen Fisher – Proposals (pdf Sample) – HIT THIS LINK

    Allen Fisher video version of 60 Second interview below

Ray DiPalma – The Ancient Use of Stone

Nick Piombino reviews…

While contemporary poets and critics opine and debate about whether or not originality is still possible, contemporary poet Ray DiPalma has been quietly at work on a project for 10 years that demonstrates that not only is creativity and originality by poets alive and well, but Otis Books/Seismicity Editions has presented The Ancient Use of Stone, DiPalma’s superb new book, subtitled Journals and Daybooks 1998-2008, in a form that defies comparison with any other book of new writing for sheer visual and typographical beauty.

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Matchbox Digital Archive at The Poetry Library

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For me the whole thing was about how to get good poetry read by people who don’t usually read good poetry, create excitement, be cheap to produce and sell; and yet not be some folded A4 paper. There were about 150 or so of each issue – all sold out now. The limited number of copies made was due completely down to the fact that I was getting sores on my fingers from cutting and folding not due to exclusivity so it’s wonderful that Dean Farrow, Chris McCabe et al have archived the editions for anyone who’s not read the poems or seen what the boxes looked like. So far the first 6 are up with the final six to come.

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