At the poetry library

Great place, the Poetry Library (5th floor of Royal Festival Hall, open 11-8 daily) - a borrowing collection and a reference collection and an exhibition space, and 180 poetry magazines. Oh and sound archives of poets reading their work. We had a class visit, and they kindly got out a lot of artists books for us.

Rhapsodomancy by kevin mcpherson eckhoff gets up to all sorts of tricks with shorthand  -

 Matthew Halliday has conjured up some fetching Venn diagrams (click to enlarge) -

 in this magazine, with its fetching cover -

What also sticks with me is an A4-size book called "After Marvell" that consisted of blank pages in various shades of green. It took a while for the penny to drop - very conceptual!