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THE EDITOR'S PICKS 2009

Poetry
1000 Views of 'Girl Singing', ed. John Bloomberg-Rissman (Leafe)
Nowhere's Far, Phil Bowen (Salt)
The
Hunt in the Forest, John Burnside (Cape)
Songbook, Ken Edwards (Shearsman)
The Migraine Hotel, Luke Kennard (Salt)
Ascension Notes, Sarah Law (Shearsman)
Catalyctic Exteriorisation Phenomenon, Mel Nichols (Edge)
London: Ghost Autopsy, Nick Scammell (Kitchen Door)
American Hybrid, eds. Cole Swensen & David St. John (Norton)

Non-Fiction
Ian McKeever. Paintings, Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton, Michael Tucker,
Catherine Lampert (Lund Humphries)
Close
Calls with Nonsense, Stephen Burt (Graywolf)
The Sacredness of Questioning Everything, David Darke
The
Council of Heresy, Andrew Duncan (Shearsman)
Finding a Form, William H. Glass (Dalkey Archive)
Rock/Music Writings, Dan Graham
Lowside of the Road. A life of Tom Waits, Barney Hoskyns (Faber)
Justifying the Margins, Pierre Joris (Salt)
Hold on to Your Dream, Tim Lawrence
Francis Bacon. Studies for a Portrait, Michael Peppiatt
Totally Wired: Post-Punk Interviews and Overviews, Simon Reynolds (Faber)
Hackney, that Rose Red Empire, Iain Sinclair
Twenty Minutes in Manhattan, Michael Sorkin (Reaktion)
Field Notes from Elsewhere, Mark C. Taylor (Columbia)

Fiction
Old Swords and Other Stories, Desmond Hogan (Lilliput)
Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
The City/The City, China Mieville
Inherenet Vice, Thomas Pynchon

New Music
Radio Sessions 1979-1981, After the Fire
Beak, Beak
Live at the Folklore Center, NYC Š March 6, 1967, Tim Buckley
The Crackle of My Soul, Cindytalk
Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast, Cornershop
You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago, Fire!
Balm in Gilead, Rickie Lee Jones
Closer to the Bone, Kris Kristofferson
Checkmate Savage, The Phantom Band
Flying Saucer for Recreation, Silvia's Magic Hands
In the Fishtank #15, Sparklehorse + Fennesz
We Move Through Weather, Tarentel


Music to paint by
Lie in Light, Cloudland Canyon
Vanity, Dada-Jyo
Nice 10 Novemvber 1997, Jon Hassell
Shuta Hasunuma, Shuta Hasunuma
There is No Cure & Other Songs, Heidika
Fire in the Hole, Sara Isaksson & Rebecka Tornquist
Automne Fold, Kangding Ray
Lux Sound, Parmentier
Stdiosnd Types, SND
We Have Become Like Knives, We Are Knives