Landfall 120

Press, 5 March 1977, Page 15

Landfall 120

Landfall 120 (Vol. 30. No. 4. December, 1976). Guest editor. Michael Harlow. Caston Press. $2.00.

This issue of "Landfall” is devoted to an exploration of the use of “imagination” in literature and is prefaced by a brief editorial on this concept by the guest editor. Michael Harlow. Apart from the customary collection of not quite comprehensible poetry, there are five reviews of recently-published prose and verse, three short stories and sundry articles, including an interview with the composer Kit Powell, who scored Michael Harlow’s powerfully compressed poem “Stonepoem” for traditional instruments and stones.

The highlights of this issue include C. K. Stead’s poem “That October she phoned” which is a cleverly written illustration of the gulf which exists between a truth of logic and an empirical truth, nicely illustrated bv a Venn diagram which contained a misprint when the poem appeared in “Landfall 119.” And Jan Kemp's short story “Them Bulls” is a beautifully evocath» piece of lyrical writing. Gary Langford’s “The Girl who waited too for Godot,” about the girl who had spent too long in waiting for her Godot lissome verv fine dialogue in it. — A J CURRY. ’