Eric Mottram edited the Poetry Review from 1971 to 1977. See http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/archives/collect/1mo70-04.html. It is widely acknowledged that under Mottram's editorship the Review opened its pages to New American and British Revival Poets. I happen to have the Autumn 1972 issue in my bookshelf and I took it out for a spin. The first thing that caught my eye was that Basil Bunting was President of The Poetry Society. You would think that this would make me think of Northern England. In fact, I think of Buffalo. Bunting and Mottram both taught at Buffalo in around 1967 or so. Their offices were right by each other. So for me this issue of Poetry Review has a Buffalo feel. Besides Mottram and Bunting, Robert Duncan opens the issue with Poems from the Margins of Thom Gunn's Moly. A remarkable sequence of poems which was privately published by Duncan in 1972.
Pierre Joris appears. Joris was in contention for the Gray Chair at Buffalo. Poems from Tom Pickard's Dancing Under Fire are also featured. Pickard passed through Buffalo as well. You get the idea.
The Autumn 1972 issue of Poetry Review includes the first published poems of Bill Griffiths. As a teenager Griffiths was a Hell's Angel and this experience formed the basis for his early poetry as is the case in this issue. To Johnny Prez. Hells Angels Nomads is one example. Bob Cobbing and Eric Mottram were big influences and supporters. In the spirit of Cobbing's Writer's Forum, Griffith started Pirate Press.
Mottram's Poetry Review also has a decidely Mimeo Revolution feel. It is obvious from this issue. Duncan's Moly was privately printed. Griffiths' Pirate Press. Dancing Under Fire was printed in 1973 by Middle Earth Books in Philadelphia. Middle Earth Books was a bookstore that held reading series and published books, including Patti Smith's second volume of poetry Kodak. It was run by Myles Pettengill. Aram Saroyan edited Lines in the 1960s and was a mimeo standout. David Henderson was associated with Umbra. Thomas A. Clark's Moschatel Press began in 1972. Michael Horovitz edited New Departures. I am sure each and every contributor had strong ties to the Mimeo Revolution. By tapping this rich resource, Mottram was able to bring back to life the poor old tired horse that was Poetry Review.
MIMEO MIMEO #8: CURATORS' CHOICE features 16 bibliophiles on 6 highlights from their personal or institutional collections. Contributors include Steve Clay, Wendy Burk, Tony White, Brian Cassidy, Thurston Moore, J.A. Lee, Michelle Strizever, Adam Davis, Michael Basinski, Joseph Newland, Alastair Johnston, Tate Shaw, Michael Kasper, Steve Woodall, Molly Schwartzberg, Nancy Kuhl, James Maynard, and the Utah posse (Becky Thomas, Marnie Powers-Torrey, Craig Dworkin, Emily Tipps, Luise Poulton, & David Wolske)
MIMEO MIMEO #7: THE LEWIS WARSH ISSUE is the first magazine ever devoted in its entirety to poet, novelist, publisher, teacher, and collage artist Lewis Warsh. Warsh was born in 1944 in the Bronx, co-founded Angel Hair Magazine and Books with Anne Waldman in 1966, and went on to co-found United Artists Magazine and Books with Bernadette Mayer in 1977. He is the author of over thirty books of poetry, fiction and autobiography, the Director of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Long Island University in Brooklyn, and as you’ll soon discover, so much more. Includes an introduction by Daniel Kane, an interview conducted by Steve Clay, 10 new stories, 5 new poems, dozens of photographs and collages, and an anecdotal bibliography.
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MIMEO MIMEO #6: THE POETRY ISSUE is devoted to new work by eight poets who have consistently composed quality writing that has influenced and inspired generations since the golden era of the mimeo revolution. Contributors include Bill Berkson, John Godfrey, Ted Greenwald, Joanne Kyger, Kit Robinson, Rosmarie Waldrop, Lewis Warsh, and Geoffrey Young. Cover art by George Schneeman.
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MIMEO MIMEO #3: THE DANNY SNELSON ISSUE examines the relationship between structuralism and the poetries of the mimeo era by presenting a detailed analysis of Form (a Cambridge-UK magazine published in 1966) and Alcheringa (a journal published by Boston University in 1975), two exemplary gatherings that illuminate the historical, material and social circumstances under which theory informed art (and vice versa) in the early works of some of today's most celebrated experimental writers. Also includes a special insert, The Infernal Method, written, designed and printed by Aaron Cohick (NewLights Press).
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MIMEO MIMEO #2: features Emily McVarish on her artist's book Flicker; James Maynard on poet Robert Duncan's early experiences as an editor and typesetter; Derek Beaulieu on the relationship between the influential Canadian poetry journal Tish and Black Mountain College; and an extensive interview with Australian poet and typographer Alan Loney conducted by Kyle Schlesinger. Cover is by Emily McVarish.
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