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Tony Murrow |
Editorial
One of the best and worst things about internet publishing is that there aren't any real deadlines: there is no printer telling you that your last chance to make the presses is such-and-such a date and no retailer asking you when in hell she can expect the hundred copies she already has forward orders for. For us the idea of publishing to schedule was too easy to dismiss. Now we seem to publish when we have just enough material of just the right sort … and when we choose, of course. Why publish when you've nothing worthy of publication? Eat when you are hungry; sleep when you are tired; publish when the need is there. If only life were so easy. Because so much of our lives
is drawn from scheduled work, unscheduled tasks and pleasures are the last
to be indulged. Robert, Brian and I have quite a few other things on the
go … everybody does. Robert has just had another book published, the complete
Star
Waka series, portions of which have appeared in earlier issues of Trout.
Brian manages a complex university library internet site and I … well,
I potter about in a state of busy-ness which only sometimes seems real
to me.
Of course, all good poets
deserve favour. In this issue we have some excellent new works from Robert
Berry, Ahila Sambamoorthy, Nina Seja, Tracey Slaughter and other poets
of the Pacific Rim. But, there are also a few short stories, my favourites
cover the raw (Karl Willis's Working Class) and the cooked (Pat Klassen's
A Good Name) of the genre. There are some longer pieces here. We hope you
find the time to read them all, but, if you don't, 'no worries'. Life is
all too casual on the internet.
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