TLALOC no. 8
Leeds: Location Press, 1965. First edition. Side-stapled 4to in pink wrappers mimeographed in black, with pages mimeographed in black on white paper. Unpaginated (18 pp. including covers.)
Issue no. 8 of Cavan McCarthy’s experimental poetry journal, of which there were 22 published. This issue with typescript poems and concrete poetry by Alain Arias-Misson, Gerry Gilbert, Josef Hirsal, Anselm Hollo, Paul Matthews, Edwin Morgan, John Newlove, Brian Patten, John J. Sharkey, and Gael Turnbull. Last five pages include news and notes from the press, a list of publications received, including the rot series edited by Max Bense and Elizabeth Walther, Wormwood Review, Lines, Estro, El Corno Emplumado, Imago, Signals, Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. (P.O.T.H.), Ikon, and My Own Mag among others. Also includes short biographies of each contributing artist. Front cover with a concrete poem by Arias-Misson, back cover with a typogram by Josef Hirsal.
Age toning, faint staple indentations, light foxing, diagonal fold line and top right front cover, bumps to corners, one oval 5 x 2 cm (2 x 0.75") stain at lower right tip which has penetrated the text block, and hand annotations in red and blue ink to one of the poems. Else very good. Priced accordingly. Item #945
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