Elizabeth Smither, the very fine New Zealand poet, has sent us work for a future Ahadada project. Thanks and welcome!
I’m also pleased to say that I’ve made contact with the legendary translator Burton Watson–it seems he’s almost a neighhbor of mine!–and will meet him in the near future for lunch.

The latest issue of Philip Rowland’s Noon arrived in my box several days ago. I was happy to see that the same beautiful format as the first volume has been followed: a hand-bound, Japanese style washi book of 71 pages in a plastic slip-case. Noon is just the right size to take with you wherever you go–great to dip into at your leisure. Indeed, the short poem asks for close and repeated reading just as the physical corpus of Noon invites repeated handling, so both content and vehicle make a grand combination. This issue does not let us down. There are fine poems from Alan Halsey, David Jaffin, and Rosmarie Waldrop. Alastair Noon’s “Reading Kafka” infuses concrete poetry with new life, and is worthy of the anthologies if there is ever a revival of this form.

Noon is an impressive journal worthy of your support.

Noon appears twice a year, in March and September.
Submissions and subscriptions to: Philip Rowland,
Sijo 8-23-21-510,
Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 157-0066,
Japan.
Email: noonpress at mac.com
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Potential subscribers, purchasers, please e-mail Mr. Rowland for prices.