Dig 6
Hand-made paper covers and hand-stitched binding handsomely present what’s mostly poetry inside. The editor’s note is both frank and self-congratulatory, and most of it is merited; some pretty good work fills the photocopied pages, beginning with a straight-forward interview with Tony Burgess, who seems keen and likable. Lots of contributors, including poems by Paul Vermeersch, rob mclennan and Marc Connery, which are my personal favorites, as they range from dry humor to surrealistic absurdity. Quality seems to go up and down, and then stabilizes. I either like the poems or don’t but LoveGrove’s own “how to sink a ship” is an anomaly. At first I don’t like it, then I like it: “…and I can sink ships/ by building a wax model/ and throwing it into the sea/…” There’s certainly enough in this litzine to worthy contemplation and a couple of wry, if not intense, chuckles. (PVP)