The Cybernetics of Cybernetics was originally published by Heinz von Foerster and the Biological Computer Laboratory at the University of Illinois. Although it is one of the greatest compendiums of cybernetics theory ever published in English, it was out of print for two decades, until it was reprinted by Future Systems. The book contains writing by Ashby, Bateson, Beer, Brün, Hardin, Maturana, McCulloch, Pask, Powers, von Foerster, and Wiener, as well as many others.

Drawn Inward is a collection of poetry by Mike Maguire comprising four sections: Word Palindromes, in which the words of each poem run in the same sequence backwards as they do forwards; Charades, in which each poem is spelled the same as the one next to it; Palindromes, in which the letters of each poem run in the same sequence backwards as they do forwards; and Poems about Trains. The poems are beautiful, humorous, and transcendent. Arguably some of the most exquisite palindromes ever written in English find their place nestled among equally gorgeous poems written in less familiar forms, showing that, even with poetry, perfection is possible. Maguire's wildly successful formal experiments ensure the palindrome its rightful place as a poetic form.

Fourier Series, a book of poetry by Joshua Corey published on Charles Fourier's 233rd birthday (April 7th, 2005), is the winner of the Fitzpatrick-O'Dinn Award for Best Book Length Work of Constrained English Literature (2004), as judged by Christian Bök, author of Eunoia. The book comes wrapped in French Revolution Folds: an oversized engraving of the Crown Imperial (Fritillaria imperialis) by the apothecary Basilius Bester (1561-1629). To Charles Fourier, this lavish desert flower represents the scientist or artist whose work is not recognized by society, and who has only her own enthusiasm to sustain herself.

21-01-2003

A surrealist feast for romantic fools pours through your letterbox.

Lost Citizen: Selected Poems 1995-2003 is a survey of the millennial poetry of William Gillespie, edited by Stephanie Strickland. Poems romance the political through formal experimentation and textual intercourse.

No one would have believed in the last years of the twentieth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves with making their bread they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise yeast.

On the left-hand pages unfolds in numerous forms the story of graduate students in love. On the right-hand pages is an essay explaining the forms used in composing the story, involving cognitive science, structuralist narratology, and literary criticism.

Table of Forms. (paperback)

Bridging the sonnet and palindrome through a rich taxonomy of new literary forms, Table of Forms is a collection of experimental, ludic, constraint-driven poetry; a puzzle book; and a writing manual. Offering myriad reading paths, this multisequential anthology includes a Table of Contents, Table of Forms, Glossary of Forms, and a matrix on the back cover. The deluxe clothbound edition contains extra material to explain the structure of the poetry in more depth.

A story about a dada art theft published in an edition of 26 signed copies lettered A-Z.