Here, for my first post, are links to some reviews of the Matecznik Press pamphlets published so far. They appeared in the OPOI section of the website of HappenStance Press, one of Scotland’s (and indeed Britain’s) leading publishers of poetry pamphlets over the past decade or so. First of all, three responses, by Sue Butler, Peter Wallis and Helena Nelson, to Vahid’s pamphlet, Nassim’s Testament:
And here is Nell’s very generous review of my little collection, The Heart of Green:
https://www.sphinxreview.co.uk/index.php/opoi-reviews-2022/robin-mackenzie-the-heart-of-green
If I’m not mistaken, the OPOI era is drawing to a close, at least on the HappenStance website. That’s a shame: many of us will miss the reviewers’ perceptive and constructive comments on a range of pamphlets that might otherwise have languished unseen and unread (or at least seen and read by fewer people). But the OPOI is a resilient genre and we may well examples see popping up in future on Amazon reviews or GoodReads.
Another (excellent) review of Vahid’s pamphlet, by Dr Patrick Lodge, has appeared in Dream Catcher, No. 47. Dr Lodge was kind enough to send us a draft copy of the review, which I will post in the blog. Here is a link to the Dream Catcher website: https://www.dreamcatchermagazine.co.uk/
