Second Aeon Poetry Magazine No 11
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Peter Finch's journal of contemporary poetry, graphics, fiction and reviews ran from late 1966 to mid 1974. Issue 1 was 6 pages of foolscap (the precursor to A4) with a circulation of a hundred copies. Issue 21 ran to 268 in B-format with a circulation of several thousand. It was the British poetry magazine of the period featuring most UK writers and leavened with Americans and the rest of the non-English speaking world in translation. The magazine had a strong leaning towards the innovative and regularly included concrete and experimental works in its pages. A great strength was The Small Press Scene, a vast and comprehensive round-up of activity among poetry and alternative publishers worldwide. . .The history of the period was one of internecine warfare between the traditional elements in British poetry and those who wished a more catholic, worldview to take hold. The make it new group were dubbed the experimentalists, their position viewed through the lens of the concrete poetry movement, their aspirations sidelined as a branch of the advertising trade. Looking back on it the reality was far less distinct. The visual and sound poets were as much at odds with the establishment as were those who preferred to work through American or European models. Poetry was moving out of the confining English trenches and into the larger world. Second Aeon, with its highly catholic view of literature, was there at just the right time (from Peter Finch's website). This very scarce issue contains work by Gary Snyder (the original publication of 'Smokey the Bear Sutra'), Jeff Nuttall, Iain Sinclair, Edward Lucie-Smith, Martin Booth, Edwin Morgan and many others. The print run was between 100 and 200 copies, so this is a rare opportunity to own one of the most influential poetry magazines of its time. Very good condition for age. No highlighting or other notes.
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