RIP Gus Ferguson. He was one of the first to publish me and he encouraged me in my writing. He encouraged me when I started up Dye Hard Press in 1994. I published a small selection of his poems called Icarus Rising and he published my chapbook When Apollinaire Died in 1996. Our views about poetry often differed considerably, and over the past 20 years we drifted apart, but there was never any animosity and we always respected each other. Without Gus Ferguson I wouldn't be where I am today, and Dye Hard Press would have probably never existed.
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