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The 'what I've been doing' conversation could go on for a while, especially given that, in this space, it's been a long time between drinks. For the nonce, I'll narrow it down to one small corner of 'what I've been doing recently'. One version can be seen in a few poems that were published in March this year in John Tranter's new Journal of Poetics Research . Here they are: Five poems in Journal of Poetics Research The older poem is 'Free Hand: A Kind of Thinking'. As well as, obviously, being a kind of ars poetica, it's length and its syntactic energies are different to the other poems, especially the first three. These may, or may not, appear in print later this year. I presume you can tell they are more stripped back, obviously shorter, full of questions and even imperatives (not so much in these but in others I've been writing), less image-driven, impatient. Whether I'll continue in this vein much longer, I don't know....

Lars Palm has got busy publishing again through his ungovernable press . He's just published three works in pdf format (free, downloadable), including my own Passages: Annotations . This e-chapbook is an extract from something I hope one day might see the light of day in hard copy, and is a collection of writing from this blog and a number of other projects that I was engaged with over the last ten years. It is a poetry and poetics assembly. The cover photo is by Annette Willis . Lars has set up a good reads page so, once you've had a read, you can leave a comment there or here on the blog, if you like. The other two new ungovernable press publications are Amanda Laughtland's Take It and Felino A. Soriano's Intersecting Views of the Possible Interaction . You should check them out as well. And all the other great downloads there. Ungovernable press now has a facebook page , if you want to join up. I'm honoured to be part of ungovernable, and well pleased to have ...