Angel Exhaust 24

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 ...

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...