What's New?

21st April 2008 - Added a short commentary on J.H. Prynne's "Rune Poem".
30th January 2008 - I've taken over the List of Little Press Publications website, founded by the late Bill Griffiths.
18th September 2007 - new Infra-Red Night-Vision Snailcam. Upload me to the web and throw me away.
3rd August 2007 - special guest poet Maggie Graham.
1st August 2007 - updated dead Links and added some new sites.
27th June 2007 - put the Snailcam back online...
20th June 2007 - pdf and HTML versions of my paper on Maggie O'Sullivan's A Natural History in 3 Incomplete Parts online at the Cambridge Experimental Women's Poetry Festival feature at How2 journal.
4th June 2007 - new photo gallery: Ambleside and Grasmere, 1st-3rd June 2007.
2nd April 2007 - new issue of Chicago Review, featuring work by Andrea Brady, Chris Goode, Peter Manson and Keston Sutherland, plus essays and interviews.
19th February 2007 - Charles Gocher has died.
17th January 2007 - Made a new Guestbook, as the old one had stopped working. Old entries have been archived.
16th December 2006 - For the Good of Liars reviewed by Rufo Quintavale at nthposition online magazine.
13th December 2006 - For the Good of Liars reviewed by Melissa Flores-Bórquez at Intercapillary Space.
20th October 2006 - poetry readings by Peter Manson now available in mp3 format at the Archive of the Now website, hosted by Brunel University. This brilliant site currently has homepages and audio for more than 60 UK poets.
21st September 2006 - new photo galleries: Cork, July 2006, Miscellaneous music photos, Michael Rother and Dieter Moebius live at Mono, Glasgow, 16th July 2006, Animal Collective live at King Tut's, Glasgow, 10th July 2006, my bits of Glasgow, and added photos to the Family and Other people pages.
8th September 2006 - added a page of images of Weather maps etc decoded from short wave utility stations. I always wondered what I did in 2006.
5th September 2006 - added a page of images of QSL cards, stickers and pennants from 1980s radio stations. I always wondered what I did in the 1980s.
31st August 2006 - Review by Richard Price of For the Good of Liars in Painted, spoken number 11 (free magazine, send an A5 self-addressed envelope with two first-class stamps to Richard Price, 24 Sirdar Road, Wood Green, London N22 6RG.)
22nd August 2006 - New from Object Permanence: Being a Human Being and other poems by Tom Leonard. A booklet of poems. See the Object Permanence website for details.
26th July 2006 - added a photograph of Bob Cobbing and Maggie O'Sullivan to the Bob Cobbing page. Many thanks to Maggie O'Sullivan.
15th July 2006 - added some current links and other information to the Bob Cobbing page.
30th June 2006 - I've run out of copies of Adjunct: an Undigest and can no longer provide them for sale via this website. There might be a few left at the Edinburgh Review office, email mccaberose AT aol DOT com with enquiries.
7th June 2006 - New photo gallery: Marseille, 26-27 May 2006. Added a few to the miscellaneous gallery.
4th May 2006 - New from Barque Press: For the Good of Liars. A collection of poems by Peter Manson. 66pp A5 perfectbound, GBP £8 / USD $13 (+ GBP £1 postage in UK). ISBN 1 903488 44 3.
2nd May 2006 - New photo galleries: Afrirampo live at Mono, Glasgow, 11th April 2006, Subcurrent Festival at CCA, Glasow, 20-22 April 2006.
9th April 2006 - New photo galleries: Sunburned Hand of the Man, Zaimph, Heather Leigh and Hush Arbors live at Man in the Moon, Cambridge, 6th March 2006, Islaja, Es and Kiila live at CB2, Cambridge, 25th March 2006. Added the last photos to the Cambridge Series Poetry and Girton College and Village galleries, and a few to the miscellaneous gallery.
26th March 2006 - back in Glasgow.
9th March 2006 - Adjunct: an Undigest is featured in the book 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, ed. Peter Boxall (Cassell, 2005).
5th March 2006 - New photo gallery: Sir Richard Bishop and others, live at Mono, Glasgow, 1st March 2006. Added new photos to the Cambridge Series Poetry, Girton College and miscellaneous galleries. Grubby communal scanner, will redo...
11th February 2006 - posted my CV online...
6th February 2006 - added a review of two books by Hans Magnus Enzensberger.
29th January 2006 - New photo galleries: Cambridge Series Poetry, Ascension Parish Burial Ground and Girton College.
29th January 2006 - messed with the layout of the homepage.
19th January 2006 - just spotted Stuart Kelly's Review of Adjunct: an Undigest on the Books from Scotland website.
18th January 2006 - added an enormous page of Unsorted visuals, 1993-1996. I'll probably split this into smaller pages soon...
5th January 2006 - added scans of some fossils to the Lyme Regis photo gallery.
17th December 2005 - new photo galleries: Fursaxa and others, live at CB2, Cambridge, 28th November 2005 and Lyme Regis and Environs, 12-15 December 2005.
17th December 2005 - Adjunct: an Undigest is one of Robert Potts' Poetry Books of the Year in The Guardian.
29th November 2005 - Jeremy Noel-Tod reviews Adjunct: an Undigest and Before and After Mallarmé in this week's Times Literary Supplement (November 25th 2005).
27th November 2005 - very pleasing mention by Tom Leonard of Adjunct: an Undigest in the Greatest Reads of 2005 article in Glasgow's Sunday Herald newspaper.
22nd November 2005 - added page-scans of my 1997 Writers Forum booklet me generation.
10th November 2005 - added two new images.
9th November 2005 - finally transferred the whole site to the new server at www.petermanson.com - update your bookmarks and links!
8th November 2005 - added a page of photos of the Sun City Girls live at Instal:05 at the Arches, Glasgow, 15th October 2005.
15th September 2005 - New from Object Permanence: Embrace by Andrea Brady. A book of poems. See the Object Permanence website for details.
14th September 2005 - added photos from a visit to Little Sparta, 12th September 2005.
8th September 2005 - added more Photos in several galleries.
3rd September 2005 - added two old poems.
27th August 2005 - added two pictures to the A.J. Marshall Picture Gallery.
30th July 2005 - added some scans of my Fossil collection.
15th July 2005 - checked for dead Links.
14th July 2005 - added a Photo gallery.
29th June 2005 - New from Edinburgh Review: Adjunct: an Undigest. The complete text in paperback format. 87pp A5, ISBN 1-85933222-6. £5.99 (including UK postage; please add £2 for overseas orders). Send a Sterling cheque payable to "Cambridge Series Poetry" to Sam Ladkin, 72 Sedgwick Street, Cambridge CB1 3AL, UK. Please email ladkin AT gmail DOT com before ordering to make sure Sam has copies in stock. Also available: 'the darkness surrounds us': AMERICAN POETRY [Edinburgh Review issue 114] edited by Robin Purves and Sam Ladkin. Same price and postage as Adjunct, or special price of £10 including UK postage for both books (please add £2 for overseas postage).
16th June 2005 - new from Survivors' Press, 2/R 5 West Bank Quadrant, Glasgow G12 8NT: Before and After Mallarmé - a 20-page booklet of Peter Manson's translations and adaptations from the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé. £2.50 inc postage, cheques payable to "Survivors' Press".
24th May 2005 - added a small animation by Tom Raworth.
22nd April 2005 - added a review of two books by Ciaran Carson and Justin Quinn.
24th February 2005 - added a previously-published response to Nuraghic Echoes by Hazel Smith.
20th February 2005 - added an old review of Douglas Oliver's Penniless Politics.
29th November 2004 - added two translations from Apollinaire and Mallarmé.
18th November 2004 - added a inept collage of materials related to Adjunct: an Undigest, and a machine translation of the complete text into Norwegian, made for the Sølvberget exhbition last year.
CD LAUNCH: Mon 11th October 2004 - Launch of the STEM CDs Adjunct: an Undigest by Peter Manson and 'Can't' is 'Night' by Leslie Scalapino, with readings by both poets. Venue: The White Horse (upstairs room), Rupert Street, London W1 (nearest tube Piccadilly Circus), 8 p.m., free entry. Website www.stemrecordings.com now accepting credit card and other payments (pre-launch offer of £8.50 each until 11 Oct 2004).
22nd July 2004 - added a short page of links to key sites for experimental poetry and music, intended for new visitors.
19th June 2004 - change of email address: see the homepage.
24th May 2004 - all reviews and miscellaneous writings are now linked to from an index page of Book reviews and other writing.
23rd May 2004 - added a review of Palace of Reptiles by Maggie O'Sullivan, and an essay on poetry and language.
16th April 2004 - added an .mp3 audio file of Peter Manson reading the poem Switch for Breathing.
7th March 2004 - removed some outdated browser-sniffing scripts which had been intended to prevent the dHTML pages crashing pre-level 4 browsers, but which for all I know could be restricting access for more recent browsers than I use myself ... they also stopped the Back button from working, which even I found confusing. The site should continue to work as usual; let me know if it doesn't. Also added more links and updated the Calendar page with details of a reading by Tom Leonard in Glasgow on 12th March 2004.
24th January 2004 - added a quick explanatory note about the Freebase Accordion links page, and a Calendar of events which might be worth checking out.
23rd October 2003 - most of the site is now laid out using stylesheets rather than HTML tables. Longer pages will load a bit faster than before, but everything should look roughly the same. Some formatting will be lost with very old browsers (e.g. Netscape 3), but the content should still be readable.
19th October 2003 - added an (ongoing) compilation of the subject lines of unsolicited penis-enlargement emails.
17th September 2003 - paper and electronic versions of my book Adjunct: an Undigest are included in the exhibition Northern Grammar at Sølvberget, the cultural centre in Stavanger, Norway. Here's a review of the exhibition (in Norwegian) from the Stavanger Aftenbladet. The exhibition is open until 29th November 2003.
1st September 2003 - added work by guest poets Scott Thurston and Robin Purves.
4th August 2003 - removed dead Links.
5th April 2003 - added two book reviews to the page of Miscellaneous Writing.
26th February 2003 - added two more photographs to the page in memory of Bob Cobbing (thanks to Elizabeth James).
26th January 2003 - added another photograph to the page in memory of Bob Cobbing.
24th January 2003 - added a page in memory of Mike Hart.
30th November 2002 - added another photograph to the page in memory of Bob Cobbing.
24th October 2002 - new from Object Permanence: The Rictus Flag by Keston Sutherland. A booklet of poems. See the Object Permanence website for details.
14th October 2002 - added 3 new images to the Fractal and other images page.
30th September 2002 - Bob Cobbing, 1920-2002.
28th July 2002 - sub-divided the Links page for easier browsing.
12th July 2002 - more Links...
3rd July 2002 - added another poem.
29th June 2002 - added A note on serial poetry.
27th April 2002 - now available from Form Books, 86C Orbel Street, London SW11 3NY, an edition of Rosebud printed as an A3 folded card. Price: £1 plus one first class stamp in UK.
30th March 2002 - new from Reality Street Editions: RENGA +, featuring collaborative work by Elizabeth James and Peter Manson, plus new writing by Christine Kennedy and Guy Barker.
12th January 2002 - added another poem.
2nd December 2001 - checked for dead links.
5th November 2001 - added some user notes for the Adjunct Travesty.
14th October 2001 - new from Object Permanence: UNANSWERING RATIONAL SHORE by J.H. Prynne. A booklet of poems. See the new Object Permanence website for details.
25th September 2001 - Netscape update (see below): the newest version, Netscape 6.1 no longer suffers from disappearing scrollbars when viewing the Searchable Adjunct Extract.
22nd September 2001 - added 6 images to the Fractal and other images page. Added a new Newspaper clipping, and an early poster for Object Permanence magazine.
19th September 2001 - added an experimental Adjunct Travesty page (an automatic text-generation script).
22nd August 2001 - added some more Poems.
11th August 2001 - the complete text of Adjunct: an Undigest is now available at UbuWeb.
11th July 2001 - more Links...
21st April 2001 - added 3 images to the Fractal and other images page.
19th April 2001 - background colour is now, I hope, browser-friendly...
14th April 2001 - applied a basic Style Sheet to all pages.
10th April 2001 - added Smoking gallery.
1st April 2001 - more Links...
15th March 2001 - added writing by guest poet Lawrence Upton.
15th February 2001 - first attempts at supporting Netscape 6. The DHTML animations representing The Windmills of Alasdair's Mind and Three Wise Alasdairs do now appear to work (albeit sluggishly) with Netscape 6 -- try Reloading the page if there's a problem. The Searchable Adjunct Extract also seems to work, though the vertical scrollbar on the Search Results page doesn't (try clicking with the left mouse button somewhere within the results page, and using the arrow keys to scroll up and down). The site should still work normally in other browsers. [Update 22nd April 2001: the scrollbar problem is listed as a "most frequently reported" Mozilla bug at Bugzilla, and has presumably been inherited by Netscape 6].
10th & 12th February 2001 - some more Links, more Poems, turned the User Poll into a real poll, added a page of Miscellaneous writing.
12th & 15th January 2001 - changed page layouts and backgrounds for improved readability and better display at screen resolutions greater than 640 x 480.
1st January 2001 - rearranged and expanded the Links page, added more Poems.
December 2000 - added a Bibliography and selected Book Reviews from Object Permanence magazine

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(1st June 1999 - first version of Freebase Accordion launched on AOL. A skeletal snapshot of this version has been preserved at the Internet Archive. The site was transferred to Freeserve a year later.)

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