Bridget Penney

Tiré du site Internet de Book Works: "With locations ranging from a murder scene outside a Covent Garden theatre to the Victorian explorer Sir John Franklin's ship Terror frozen into the Arctic ice - and taking in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, a rural idyll in Somerset and an extraordinary Masonic ritual on the way - Index is a spellbinding novella that provokes curiosity and ultimately satisfies it with a poetics of mystery that transcends conventional narrative closure. In the book fictionalised versions of the famous magician and forger Cagliostro; the revolutionary bigot Lord George Gordon; Marie Antoinette and the transvestite spy Chevalier D'Eon, are woven into a thematic exploration of revolution, repression, seduction and death. The use of uncredited "found" texts and deliberate forgeries blur the line between what might have happened and what is merely imagined. Mapped onto this web of memory and imagination are Roland and Julie, the survivors of a king's unsuccessful experiment to uncover the truth about human nature and the original spoken language."

Index

John M. Bennett

Paul Holman

Poetry. Visual Poetry. LOOSE WATCH is a selection of texts and graphics from issues 1-39 of Lost and Found Times. It features the work of 170 contributors from North and South America, Europe and the former Soviet Union. From its origins in mail art to the present, the Lost and Found Times have provided a model of how marginalised cultural workers can create productive areas of engagement within a network of activity. Shelves clogged with leaves resist physical/ melting except as the start of extinguished/ flame peeling places of selves we thought were/ ringing rigid like a temple, but it's just a plate of/ dander corresponding to a subtle wheeze, directive/ toward the window. Where the wire sings the pigeon/ fingers like the yellow wisps of snow (Shelves) - Sheila Murphy and John M. Bennett.

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