Tears in the Fence 47
Current mood: chipper
Category: Writing and Poetry

Tears in the Fence 47 features poetry and fiction by
Nathaniel Tarn, Chris McCabe, Anamaria Serrano, Glyn Hughes, Lynne Wycherley,
Hannah Silva, Kathryn Frederich, Penny Feeny, Michael Henry, S.A. Griffin,
Luc Simonic, Mark Goodwin, Norman Jope, Tommy Curran, Paul Saxton,
Anna de Noailles, Edward Nudelman, Kathryn Hamman, Jessika Tong, Simon
Currie, Mary Maher, Gerald Locklin, David Mason Heminway, Boris Poplavsky, Boris Pasternak, Lisa Gordon, Morag Kiziewicz, Dai Vaughan, Paul Matthews,
Jacqui Rowe, Joe Dunthorne, Donna Hilbert, Peter Dent, Mim Darlington, Dee
McMahon, Mark Newell, Simon Turner, James Wilkes, Carol Novack, John Muckle.

Ian Brinton on Lee Harwood, David Caddy
Jeremy Hilton on Giles Goodland, Elaine Randall, Graham Hartill, Ulli Freer
Andrew Shelley on meeting Samuel Beckett
Norman Jope on Jay Ramsay
Adam Fieled Interviewing Steve Halle and Amy King
Dennis Tomlinson .. Brecht
Alex McRae on Todd Swift
Sheila Hamilton on Joanna Boulter
Mary Michaels on Dinah Livingstone
Tom Chivers – From The Other Side Of The Fence
Sarah Hopkins – Cabin Noise
Notes on Contributors
David Caddy – Afterword

Single copies are £6 / $7 cash

Subscriptions are £15 for three or £25 for six issues / $20 cash for four issues

Available from David Caddy 38 Hod View, Stourpaine, Blandford Forum, Dorset DT11 8TN England

Please make cheques payable to Tears in the Fence

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Tears in the Fence 46
Current mood: happy

Tears in the Fence 46 features poetry and fiction by
John James, Estill Pollock, Alex M. Frankel, Amanda Oaks, Matina L. Stamatakis, Mark David Dannov, Sarah Connor, Gerard Greenway, Geraldine Green, A.F. Harrold, Ann Gray, Rob Mimpriss, Jennifer Grigg, Carolyn Fisher, John Brantingham, A.D. Winans, Katy Creates, Adrian Lenthall, Nigel Jarrett, Rosemary Osbourne, Alexis Lykiard, Rhys Trimble, M.A. Schaffner, Jonty Driver, Leona Jones,
Kevin McCann, Hugh Fox, David King, Jacqui Stewart, Mary Maher, John Dorsey,
Aaron Belz, Lorna Tracy, Jill Chan and Lynn Strongin.

Ian Brinton on John Wieners
Brendan Cooper: Re-thinking the Canon Robert Lowell & Allen Ginsberg
Brian Hinton on Iain Sinclair
Jeremy Hilton on S.J. Litherland
David Caddy on Rae Armantrout, Elizabeth Cook
Caroline Maldonado on David Harsent
John Torrance on Fred Beake
Dennis Tomlinson on The Nightingale Question
Ketaki Kushari Dyson on Shanta Acharya
Gurdeep Mattu on Generation Txt
William Gilson on Keith Althaus
A.A. Marcoff on Kevin Bailey, Tim Fletcher
From The Other Side Of The Fence by Tom Chivers
Notes From The Cabin by Sarah Hopkins
Notes on Contributors
Afterword by David Caddy

Single copies are £6 / $8 cash

Subscriptions are £15 for three or £25 for six issues / $20 cash for four issues

Currently listening : What’s Going on By Marvin Gaye Release date: 14 January, 2003

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Middle Ditch
Current mood: happy
Category: Podcast

Middle Ditch is an offbeat drama serial at http://middleditch.blogspot.com.

Episodes 3 & 4 of these quirky tales of Dorset village life are now online. These and future episodes feature Monique Caddy, David Caddy, Jeremy Drake, Helen Hardy, Paul Hart, Gordon Haskell, Brian Hinton M.B.E., Dawn Napleton, Diana O'Rourke and Keith Walton.

Visit http://middleditch.blogspot.com

Episodes 5 & 6 will be added at the beginning of October.

Enjoy!

Currently listening : Janis Joplin - Greatest Hits By Janis Joplin Release date: 31 August, 1999

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Middle Ditch
Current mood: happy
Category: Podcast

Middle Ditch is an offbeat drama serial at middleditch.blogspot.com.

These quirky tales of Dorset village life are deliberately wonky and walk that thin line between being self-consciously bad and plain bad. They are funny, ranging from light to dark humour. Each episode is about five minutes and a perfect pick me up for any time of day. No animals were injured in the recording of the early episodes

Visit middleditch.blogspot.com and enjoy the enthusiasm. Click on to each player to listen to episodes 1 and 2. Subsequent episodes will be added at the beginning of each month.

Enjoy!

Currently listening : Doughnut in Granny’s Greenhouse By Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band Release date: 16 July, 2007

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The Willy Poems
Current mood: busy
Category: Writing and Poetry

As a fresh batch of The Willy Poems has arrived, I thought that I would let people know that the book is available direct from me at the following prices: UK £8 (inclusive of post & packing) and $15 cash (inclusive of airmail post & packing).

The trade edition is hand-numbered and bound into paper-wrappers of Neenah Environment 80lb. Storm with 60lb. Woodstock used as endpapers.
The type has been set in 12pt. Goudy Old Style with 14 pt. Goudy Bold italic Titling.
The book includes an insightful introduction by Jonathan Ward and linocuts by Marc Snyder.

At the heart of Caddy's rural landscape is the outcast, Willy. In these poems, Caddy gives voice and context to Willy: a lonely, dishevelled and unemployed man that wanders the countryside in search of his identity. With sharp precision and empathy, Caddy explores the heart of a simple, yet troubled, man and his environment.


Quote:

'Caddy demonstrates a remarkable connection to the earth itself, and to the roots of language that grows from that soil. These roots feed and sustain a vision of considerable intensity and wholeness. Anyone who reads contemporary poetry in a serious fashion should own this rich, life-enthralled book.'

Jay Parini, author of Robert Frost, A Life

I have seen copies of the book for sale at several times these prices.

Currently listening : Nina: The Essential Nina Simone By Nina Simone Release date: 08 May, 2003

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The Wanderer Returns
Current mood: busy
Category: Writing and Poetry

Drawn by shadows, off-centre alignments
arcs, triangles, the holy trinity, otters
slipstreams of trilingual emphasis,
striding towards the Mill and Stour,

its dissected economy once Europe's heart
beat, veined by invaders, war prisoners,
the expansive sketch as mainstay,
taken on a quiet night to be auctioned,

his head at boiling point, fuelled by theft,
having been told he needs his eyes tested,
Cezanne bursts out of Barnes, the Barrel
House, where Willy walked,

to do what needs to be done
to put down the Gibson for the brush
to register and bless geese, gudgeon
to settle willow

to argue, as Reitz, word for word,
shot for shot, hear the Latvians sing,
see Harry Dawes' camellias, orchids,
what remains of his public gardens.


David Caddy

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Of Being Heard
Current mood: awake
Category: Writing and Poetry

Your words lap and slap
insist against something
not so insistent.

Let them enter and release
more than horizon
from my throat.

Dip him in the river,
wrote Blake,
when the waters break, say I

wanting wetness
revelation,
electricity.

The thing itself
coming, to disassemble
re-model,

somehow boundless
stuck and sticky
as we sit

in this moonlit
breach
that opens and shuts,

utterly suggestive,
as lips,
of being heard.


David Caddy

Currently listening : Rumor and Sigh By Richard Thompson Release date: 21 May, 1991

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On Hearing The Voice Of The Beautiful One
Current mood: calm
Category: Writing and Poetry

If I could enter this
it would be like stepping into a bath,
roots of Venus.

When squawking birds
flutter and circle
gently slip into place.

Simply
detach
undress

in the arduous path
of appearance
and probes of uncertain intention.

We have shoulders and wounds
where things could easily fit.
Your hair falls so neat.

To live in this temple
in small stony worlds
eroded,

saturated in juices, scents
reading echoes of echoes,
not texts

vibrations, accent
rampant bends,
heat.

Helpless
so helpless in the face
of such opulence.


David Caddy

Currently listening : Franks Wild Years By Tom Waits Release date: 15 June, 1990

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At First Sight
Current mood: hungry
Category: Writing and Poetry

You caught my heart off guard
sent it throbbing in the shade,
swallowed, adrift in what if.
Matter stutters, is queasy.

I am haunted by your voice
its hinterland and vibrance.
Your long legs, body arcs, eyes.
I cannot rest. I shudder.

Come. Come closer. Accept this
and touch. Open the prospect.
Scatter the gulls and humidity.
Coalesce. I'd follow you anywhere.

Cowslips bend sufficient to need
as dazzling as the adonis blue
that flits and disappears.
I tempt you with these words.

David Caddy

Currently listening : Love Me or Leave Me: Best of Mary Coughlan By Mary Coughlan Release date: 24 October, 1997

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Dawn
Current mood: awake
Category: Writing and Poetry

In this transitory speechless state
when glamour sags and shapes alter
touch is resilient
and last night's stains remain,

something more than time
changes hands and lies aslant.
Eyes rubbed, your hat tilted.
A solitary messenger loops and calls.

Water slaps,
breaking the desk of near-silence
and the ground breaks open,
a precinct to threshold, chilled.

We sip stringent juice,
watch the bridge rise,
kiss in this rare
and rapid flux.

David Caddy

Currently listening : Essential Leonard Cohen By Leonard Cohen Release date: 22 October, 2002

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