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You can order copies of issue 24 through www.angelexhaustnet.com . This is a shopping site. Angel Exhaust 24 is now available. You can buy it through a website at www.angelexhaust.net. Title, Your mind is a locked room and Maria has the key. 230 pages. Price, £10. The initial idea involved two editors who are 30 years apart in age, and it quickly emerged that the temporal span between poets born in the 1940s and poets born in 2003 is a large-scale shape and offers a sublime view of time. The theme of the issue is change over time. There is a special section of poets under 30. We also collected poets who were in the relaunch issue in 1992. We are including amazing new poems by Ulli Freer, Ralph Hawkins, and Adrian Clarke, an act inside deep time and embodying the eternal present. Artistic resistance is at least as strong and long-lasting as what it resists. We asked the 37 contributing poets to name their favourite poets, and they responded with a total of 207 names. POEMS BY: Bloss...
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Survey of admired poets

Survey Because the DOB of contributors spanned 50 years, we were concerned that the magazine would split apart. We thought that a feature on which poets people admired would act to close this up. Seeing the position of poets, after one book or many, in the collective memory, would emphasise that everyone is attached to the audience and dependent on their memory. So we asked our contributor to name a cluster of their favourite poets. About twenty people replied. The detailed report is in the printed version of the magazine. We collated and got a list of 207 different names. This probably is a statement of “what happened in poetry in the last 20 years”. Actually the data is extensive and the list is a just a set of pointers to it. Peter Manson got the highest vote count - six. So if you want one 21st century poet, it looks like he is the one. The printed version will omit this entry. Maria Sledmere made a list of admired dead poets, and we thought this could be left out. Here it is:...
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progress

The deadline has gone by. At 10 September we have actually got poems by: Ralph Hawkins, Jason Ioannou, David Hackbridge Johnson, Simon Smith, Paul Holman, Adrian Clarke, Steve Ely, Catherine Hales, Doug Jones, Nell Perry, Michael Ayres, Nancy Gaffield, Kat Sinclair, Ian Heames, David Grundy, David Ashford, Ulli Freer, John Goodby, Giles Goodland, Nicolas Spicer - and a memoir by Wayne Burrows. I am meeting Charlie on 27 September to discuss the contributions by poets under 30. It looks like a 200-page issue. This may be grandiose but it is hard to turn down terrific poems. Some people didn't reply to the invitation & it is too late now. I suppose regrets start here. Still, I am drowning in good material.
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Double exposure

Double exposure : more (2) on a time theme (AD) We present an issue in which the span between the poets by birth date covers five decades. The idea is to contrast and illuminate. We are not looking at a progress theory or at a way of delegitimating some style or other, nor at a kind of claim in which the future validates the power of the past. The concept is to publish an array of information which covers the widest possible range of styles and projects. The process of change is likely to take place in the unconscious of art, an area of thousands of rules (or a mile-long printout of software) which is always there but always hard to focus on. For comparison, an expert in dating art in a genre which was produced over a long period would look at aspects of production and arrangement which are non-focal. The central features may be stable over a long period, or else be unique. The non-focal features can be arranged in a series, and, with luck, in a series which varies reliably over ...
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Mission statement

Angel Exhaust 24: Your mind is a locked room and Maria has the key Mission Statement: Are you sure Hank done it this way? We don’t have any poems at present, but we have a plan for an anthology of poems under 30, for a collection of poets from Angel Exhaust’s local tradition, and for a campaign where we ask for poets we don’t know to contact us. In the initial high-level plan, the temporal span between poets born in the 1940s and potentially poets born in 2004 is a large-scale shape and possibly the largest shape in the project inventory. This span is likely to be foregrounded in the blurb and related material. That material will not be able to claim that the poets resemble each other, since obviously they won’t. Of course we have a new draft of editorial talent to look after all that. Each poem has to be at the centre of its own space. Because that is the responsibility of the editor to the poet. However vast the linguistic space, however vast the gaps between the poems, we hope...
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Beat the Dots

Time issues: one, Beat the dots The Poetry Book Society lists suggested new books on their website, and an analysis of their list for four quarters of 2023 yields a little over 300 British titles. (If you include anthologies and foreign poets, the figure is over 400.) The reader will forgive us for not actually listing these books. Anyway, this gives us 320 things that literally happened during 2023. Analysis of these data points could allow them to be mapped on a whiteboard as a scatter pattern. We could then draw ones that would group the dots into things like trend lines and clusters of higher density. Comparison with an earlier date, say the year 2000, would then give us a first-stage model of change through time. That is an optimistic account, and, however much the concerned audience would like to hear an answer to the question “what just happened?”, it does not seem that we can either reduce 300 books to a single graph or find a clear curve that sums up the direction of trave...
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