Book With No Back Cover: comments & reviews
STEVE SPENCE: 'Book with No Back Cover', August 2003
Terrible Work ⇒ Archive ⇒ Burns
TONY FRAZER: 'British & Irish Poets A-G'
Shearsman Recommendations ⇒ Burns
NORMAN JOPE: from 'Range and Resonance', Tears in the Fence, No. 42, 2005
Book With No Back Cover [...] derives its title from [...] juxtaposition - whereas one half consists of poems in the 'verset' (i.e. verse-paragraph) form deployed in his sequence The Manager, the other, printed ’upside down’, contains unrhymed poems, each consisting of six three-line stanzas, that relate to specific hexagrams of the I Ching.'