POETRY

poems of the month

rejoice in the dog

millennium maggot

dispatches from the war against the world

albanian poems

french poems

the hells
going on

suicide for
non-beginners

fearful symmetry

book disease

foreground
trouble

the transcendental hotel

cinema of the blind

lament of the earth mother

uranian poems

haiku by okami

haiku on the edge

black hole of your heart

jung's motel

vasko popa

BETWEEN POETRY AND PROSE

maxims

PROSE

houses for the dead

womb of half-fogged mirrors

overcoming tourism

anti-fairy tales

this sorry scheme of things

satan in the groin

irish genius

egregious.org

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July, 2000
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REVIEWS

of: Dispatches from the War
Against the World:

"'The voice of Honest Indignation’ before its time…"
- Kathleen Raine

"These poems are in every good sense of the word sensational. Mr Weir is a most provocative and endearing poet of the passions.
"His honesty shines and transforms every word. I’m reading the poems again and again."
- James Kirkup

"I found myself wondering if anyone has read poetry of this sort since Swift or Donne…
"This is a book that, once you read, you want to encourage everyone to read….It is a pity that the ‘major publishers’ still lack the guts to publish poetry that matters."
- Kevin Bailey , The Haiku Quarterly.

of: Book Disease
and Fearful Symmetry

"These two chapbooks co-authored by Andi Garwood and Anthony Weir are just the sort of booklets one should be reading. Both poets have attitude and talent, but above all they are virile – and virility in British poetry is still at a premium despite Alvarez’s plea forty years ago that we should be less genteel and decent – to which real virility is the antithesis....
"There is an irony and a non-lethal quality of real philosophy in almost every poem. The work of these poets is that rare beastie: a literate and lyrical poetry that makes one think about, and question, the accepted rules governing our lives and world."
- Kevin Bailey, The Haiku Quarterly.

of: The Transcendental Hotel:

"I keep this book among a small pile of books which claim my attention when I climb out from underneath my work."
- Tom Stoppard

"…what an incredible rage of witty /wise/weird sense/sound/cultural-reference-&-imaginative bombast Anthony Weir covers…"
- Cathal Dallat

of: Womb of Half-fogged Mirrors

"It is an extraordinary document, the repetitions not least. This book will help anyone caring for a relative with dementia."
- Alan Bennett

"A kind of diary of a woman in the initial stages of dementia, in the form of notes to her dead sister and her unacknowledged son (who adds a brief commentary). Her preoccupations with good coffee, wine and warmth are engaging; I found it compulsive reading."
- Sue Benson, Journal of Dementia Care.

"This book invites the reader to experience, rather than merely observe, what is happening in all its incompleteness – incomplete because of course the memory itself is incomplete. I think it will be of genuine use to people."
- Michael Holroyd

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