Salt does not have the monopoly on financial concerns, or on being a lively small press doing great work - Salmon in Ireland - among other things the main Irish publisher of woman's poetry there - is also seeking supporters (albeit more subtly) to purchase their superb collections and anthologies. Their offer is fair and tempting - they will ship books anywhere in the world for free. Now is the time for North Americans, among others, to order books by Kevin Higgins, Patrick Chapman, Susan M DuMars, and many others - including my Seaway - without the expense of post from abroad. The salmon of knowledge is ever more available.
THAT HANDSOME MAN A PERSONAL BRIEF REVIEW BY TODD SWIFT I could lie and claim Larkin, Yeats , or Dylan Thomas most excited me as a young poet, or even Pound or FT Prince - but the truth be told, it was Thom Gunn I first and most loved when I was young. Precisely, I fell in love with his first two collections, written under a formalist, Elizabethan ( Fulke Greville mainly), Yvor Winters triad of influences - uniquely fused with an interest in homerotica, pop culture ( Brando, Elvis , motorcycles). His best poem 'On The Move' is oddly presented here without the quote that began it usually - Man, you gotta go - which I loved. Gunn was - and remains - so thrilling, to me at least, because so odd. His elegance, poise, and intelligence is all about display, about surface - but the surface of a panther, who ripples with strength beneath the skin. With Gunn, you dressed to have sex. Or so I thought. Because I was queer (I maintain the right to lay claim to that
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