Support International Independent Poetry Publishing

Nthposition's global headquarters is a minuscule eyrie in North London, and now that In The Criminal's Cabinet has been in print for nearly three years, publisher and chief editor Val Stevenson is keen to get a few boxes of unsold copies out of her bedroom, though not nearly as keen as her long-suffering husband... If you would like one, please email Val.

Copies will be sent out on a 'first come, first served' basis, and when they are gone, ITCC will be officially out-of-print.

Copies will be a staggeringly reasonable £2.00 plus postage and packing (for airmail outside the UK) per copy as follows:

USA: £6.72;
Canada, Australia, India, EU: £4.88;
UK: £2.98

Please pay Val via PayPal or send a sterling cheque, made out to: Val Stevenson, to 38 Allcroft Road, London NW5 4NE, UK. And don't forget to include your full postal address.

Contributors to ITCC are: Robert Allen, Tammy Armstrong, Louise Bak, Carole Baldock, Simon Barraclough, Jim Bennett, Caroline Bergvall, Charles Bernstein, bill bissett, Stephanie Bolster, Tom Bradley, Kimberly Burwick, Jason Camlot, Sherry Chandler, Maxine Chernoff, Todd Colby, MTC Cronin, Kieran D’Angelo, Robert Davidson, Jennifer K Dick, Andrew Dilger, BR Dionysius, Isobel Dixon, Antony Dunn, Zdravka Evtimova, Peter Finch, David Finkle, Martin Fisher, Brentley Frazer, Philip Fried, Ethan Gilsdorf, John Goodby, Giles Goodland, Daphne Gottlieb, Carrie Haber, Jen Hadfield, Christine Hamm, Paul Hardacre, Kenneth J Harvey, Steven Heighton, Kevin Higgins, Paul Hoover, Ranjit Hoskote, Halvard Johnson, Fred Johnston, Jill Jones, Norman Jope, Jayne Fenton Keane, WB Keckler, Amy King, Chris Kinsey, Roddy Lumsden, Alexis Lykiard, Don McGrath, Nigel McLoughlin, Jo Mazelis, Valeria Melchioretto, Matthew Miller, Vivek Narayanan, Nessa O’Mahony, Michelle Noteboom, Richard Peabody, Tom Phillips, David Prater, Sina Queyras, Srikanth Reddy, Ali Riley, Peter Riley, Peter Robinson, Noel Rooney, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Rebecca Seiferle, John W Sexton, Ron Silliman, Hal Sirowitz, Hank Starrs, Sean Street, Seamus Sweeney, Joel Barraquiel Tan, Heather Taylor, Roisin Tierney, Rodrigo Toscano, Ilija Trojanow, Alison Trower, Paul Vermeersch, John Welch, John Hartley Williams, Philip Wilson, Max Winter, Harriet Zinnes.

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CLIVE WILMER'S THOM GUNN SELECTED POEMS IS A MUST-READ

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

IQ AND THE POETS - ARE YOU SMART?

When you open your mouth to speak, are you smart? A funny question from a great song, but also, a good one, when it comes to poets, and poetry. We tend to have a very ambiguous view of intelligence in poetry, one that I'd say is dysfunctional. Basically, it goes like this: once you are safely dead, it no longer matters how smart you were. For instance, Auden was smarter than Yeats , but most would still say Yeats is the finer poet; Eliot is clearly highly intelligent, but how much of Larkin 's work required a high IQ? Meanwhile, poets while alive tend to be celebrated if they are deemed intelligent: Anne Carson, Geoffrey Hill , and Jorie Graham , are all, clearly, very intelligent people, aside from their work as poets. But who reads Marianne Moore now, or Robert Lowell , smart poets? Or, Pound ? How smart could Pound be with his madcap views? Less intelligent poets are often more popular. John Betjeman was not a very smart poet, per se. What do I mean by smart?

"I have crossed oceans of time to find you..."

In terms of great films about, and of, love, we have Vertigo, In The Mood for Love , and Casablanca , Doctor Zhivago , An Officer and a Gentleman , at the apex; as well as odder, more troubling versions, such as Sophie's Choice and Silence of the Lambs . I think my favourite remains Bram Stoker's Dracula , with the great immortal line "I have crossed oceans of time to find you...".

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