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Klugscheisser
30.01.2003, 13:29
> Dear friends and fellow poets,
>
> Apologies for sending you an impersonal email, but we hoped you might be
> able to help publicise a wonderful chapbook of poetry. Anything you can do
> to help - send the release to fellow journalists, webmistresses and
> webmasters, local newspapers, poitics or poetry sites - would be much
> appreciated.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Val Stevenson & Todd Swift
> nthposition.com
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 27, 2003
>
> RECORD-BREAKING GLOBAL COLLECTION OF POETRY TIMED TO COINCIDE WITH BLIX UN
> REPORT
>
> In a remarkable show of global protest against a possible war with Iraq,
> over 100 of the world's leading, mid-career and emerging poets who work in
> the English language, have gathered their work together in a book of new
> peace poems.
>
> 100 Poets Against The War is perhaps the fastest-assembled world anthology
> ever. Editor Todd Swift, working with Val Stevenson of Nthposition.com,
> announced the first call for poems last Monday, January 20, 2003. Within
> hours, poems from dozens of countries were pouring in.
>
> "Poets usually take weeks, if not months, to submit poems for an anthology,"
> says editor Swift, "so I was astonished when they sent me poems within hours
> and days of my call for new work."
>
> Over the week, Swift and Stevenson selected, edited and arranged the
> collection of powerful poems, into a format designed for maximum impact.
> The anthology of poems will be presented on the website
> http://www.nthposition.com as a PDF file.
>
> As all contributors have donated their poems, any and all interested
> readers, writers and peace activists are encouraged to download the file,
> share it, host it on their own sites, and ultimately print it up and make it
> into a book of poetry.
>
> "It would have been impossible to complete the project within this
> time-scale without the Internet," added Stevenson. "The poems come from all
> over the world, they were commissioned and edited in Paris, page lay-out was
> in London, and file conversion was done in the States."
>
> "The plan is to make a book of poems against the attack on Iraq instantly
> available to anyone who wants it, anywhere in the world," says editor and
> poet Todd Swift.
>
> The collection features many widely-published and award-winning poets across
> a broad spectrum, from performance to new formalism, and seeks to fuse a
> political, inspiring message with well-written verse.
>
> It is available as of Monday, January 27, 2003 from www.nthposition.com
> <http://www.nthposition.com>
>
> For further information, please contact the editor, Todd Swift:
> todd@toddswift.com
>
> or Val Stevenson, of nthposition.com: val@nthposition.com
> tel: (London) (0)20 7485 5002

Wat soll datten jetz wieder? Ein Anhang hing an der Mail auch noch, ich habe ihn natürlich nicht geöffnet. Er heißt Part1.htm (3,05 KB).