NOTES

I’ll be offline until Sunday 20th May as I’ll be in Germany at a converted NATO missile base to read at the 14 Inselfestival.

Latest news (from Jane)

Anselm was returned to the Intensive Care Unit on Thursday morning because he woke up a little disoriented and a CAT scan showed that fluid had filled the cavity from which the tumor was removed. The fluid is exerting some pressure on Anselm’s brain, and there was talk of a second surgery to suction it out, but after some discussion the doctors decided to raise his steroid dose to help alleviate swelling around the surgery site and monitor the situation carefully. If all goes well, the excess fluid will gradually dissipate as the swelling subsides. It is now Saturday evening and so far, so good.

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Brighton & Hove seafront on first Saturday after a week of rain

Click here for a look at those halcyon days when there was work, and when the British Council promoted Trades Unionism.

Anselm’s surgery on Monday was successful and the prognosis for a complete recovery is good. He has been transferred from Intensive Care to Rehab.

…. that you can get from Oystercatcher Press.

Goodbye, and thanks.

Thinking of Anselm and wishing him strength today.

There are some great time-lapse videos HERE.

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A very few images from the launch last night of An Andrew Crozier Reader at the London Review Bookshop.

The Nearness of You Vic Ash Hoagy
Maine Roswell Rudd/Hans Dulfer/Arjen Gorter/Martin Van Duynhoven Maine
Let’s Keep The Dodgers in Brooklyn Phil Foster 78
Brian McKnight tests the water
Minister Jeremy *unt Wriggles
Reaction Shot

Direct download: range.mp3

I just got the sad news from Rita degli Esposti of the death of my old and dear friend Marilú Parolini. Maria Ludovica Parolini, detta Marilù, fotografa di scena e sceneggiatrice, nasce a Cremona nel 1931. Still photographer, writer, actress: you can find her traces on The Internet Movie Database but you won’t find her throaty voice and laugh, nor her performances with Rita at those great Festivals of the late 1980s in Parma and Milan, nor her courage during the final years of illness and almost isolation. Silk against metal and sand. Ciao, cara mia, ci vediamo.

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Reading at the Horse Hospital, London, with Anselm Hollo, Gunnar Harding and Andrei Codrescu

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…as seen from my window

Jane Dalrymple-Hollo just sent me this photo she took of Anselm and me at breakfast at their hotel in Brighton a couple of weeks ago.

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Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift

Young Boy In Africa Classique Vibes Suffer Hell On Earth
Insane Tom Cruise
John Cage and Sun Ra at Coney Island, 1986
Theme For The Kid David Murray & James Newton Solomon’s Sons
Mitt Romney‘s Leisure Pursuits open mike before Hannity interview
Fragment from “Beachcomber” Richard Ingrams BBC recording
Scaling Derek Bailey Notes
Gyeene Wulomei Walatu Walasa

Direct download: vahses.mp3

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Family stuff. Brighton and Lewes

Pip Benveniste’s son Mark Vaughan tells me he has a few copies of her memoir The Pink House (see previous entry) for sale. A cheque for £12 or equivalent made out to:

Mark Vaughan

at

29 Ravenswood Road,
Redland,
Bristol BS6 6BW,UK.

will bring one in the mail.

Mark is also continuing Pip’s project of rugs made from her paintings; ethically produced, hand woven in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal by highly skilled Nepalese and Tibetan weavers, using traditional Tibetan wools and dyeing practices.

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After Anselm and Jane’s visit there was another flash from the past today when Jimmy Cummins, who is doing some research at Storrs, Conn., sent me copies of a few old photographs of mine he’d found: including this one of Ted Berrigan and me photomating somewhere in 1970/71. The navy Melton overcoat I’m wearing had belonged to Ken Lansdowne’s father who had a vegetable stall on Ridley Road Market (see earlier London photos last week): I wore it for years, then passed it on to Lloyd. It lasted him until 2010.

Carcanet has just put a deal of Andrew Crozier’s poetry and prose back in print in An Andrew Crozier Reader, intelligently edited by Ian Brinton.

Daydream Believer Kevin Rowland My Beauty
Pont Sur Le Congo Cercul Jazz Les Merveilles du Passé 1967
Coonskin No More Scatman Crothers Coonskin
Libala Bombanda Pasi L’Orchestre Teke Teke EP
Rag Doll Kevin Rowland My Beauty

Direct download: changes.mp3

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Me, Anselm: fifty years on.
photo by Jane Dalrymple-Hollo

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Cafe Oto March 20/21