Illustrated book covers: Georges Simenon's Maigret's Little Joke

First published in France in 1957 as Maigret s'amuse. Published in English by Arrow Books in 1961; this copy is the second edition from 1963.

Unexpected guests

You're gonna need somebody on your bond

Graffiti Kolkata volume 1

Graffiti Kolkata, volume 1, a new poetry journal edited by Subhankar Das, in Kolkata, India. Includes work by poets such as Catfish McDaris, Henry Denander, Kyle Allan, Yanis Livadas, Jim Wittenberg, Mistry Rainwater Lites, Subhankar Das, Falguni Roy, Michael McAloran, Lynn Alexander, Sharmy Panday and Gary Cummiskey.
Cover artwork by Henry Denander.

To order, email subhankar.das45@gmail.com.

Interludes of Passion by Ann Menebroker, published by Kamini Press

Interludes of Passion by Ann Menebroker, a mini-chapbook of three poems, published by Kamini Press, Stockholm, 2012.
Limited edition of 125 copies printed and signed by the author.
Cover artwork by Henry Denander.
To find out more about Kamini Press and to order titles, contact www.kaminipress.com

Journey to the West

Dawn Garisch: observing the patterns

Dawn Garisch lives in Cape Town and has had five novels and a collection of poetry published. Three of her novels have been published in the UK. In 2010 her novel Trespass was short-listed for the Commonwealth Prize in Africa, and in 2011 her poem Miracle, from her debut collection Difficult Gifts (Modjaji Books)won the EU Sol Plaatjie Poetry Award. A nonfiction work, Eloquent Body,will be published by Modjaji in March. Her work has appeared in literary journals such as New Coin, New Contrast, Carapace and Green Dragon. She runs workshops on writing and creative method, and is a practising medical doctor...read the Dye Hard Interview

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A Book About Love & War & Death by Dick Higgins

A Book About Love & War & Death, a book-length aleatory poem by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins, was published by Something Else Press in 1972.
The first canto of the work was originally published under the same title by Nova Broadcast in 1969.

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The Idiot's Voice - a collection of previously unpublished poems by Sinclair Beiles

The Idiot's Voice is a collection of 25 previously unpublished poems by South African beat poet Sinclair Beiles, published by Cold Turkey Press, France.


The first edition is limited to 36 copies.


Cost is 15 euros, excluding postage.

To order, contact coldturkeypress@gerardbellaart.com


Also visit Who was Sinclair Beiles?

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Through the naked eye (blind bird)

Little Tragedies by Howie Good

Little Tragedies by Howie Good is published by Graffiti Kolkata and consists of 22 surreal prose poems. One of them reads as follows:

Exit Visa

I woke up speaking another language. At the store I couldn't make myself understood. The aged stockboy backed away. The girl working the register shrugged. I started home, but cops were beating a man on the corner. It might as well have been the fall of France, or the day Sacco and Vanzetti were executed. The sky was the dismal gray of neglect. A street musician played the same song on his horn over and over. I also kept weeping. The border was near, sometimes in the guise of helpless firemen, sometimes in the guise of helpless fire.

Little Tragedies is available for $4 from Graffiti Kolkata.

With Revolvers Aimed ... Finger Bowls, by Claude Pelieu

With Revolvers Aimed ... Finger Bowls, by Claude Pelieu, published by Beach Books, Texts and Documents, 1967. Translated from French by Mary Beach, presented by William Burroughs. Cover by Norman Mustill.

"I've read a lot (solitude & illness), I cannot quote the stars swollen like live pearls, but the savage weapons, the purest screams, bloody contradictions of those snatched from order cannot rot indefinitely in the oily sheets of  re/actionary offenses - It really is about reaction, the worst blessing - Artaud, Crevel, Riguat, Duprey, Buskirk, Kaufman, Larronde offended people forever - Rimbaud & Lautreamont embracing in the dust - every seer wanders discoloured in the thistle basket of conformity."

Letter to a Dead Man