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In this episode, we will be talking about John of John by Douglas Stuart and published by Picador.

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different time and then now as I've grown older like um The way that the poetry establishment has kind of, in some ways, opened its arms.

Some people are still really snobbish about it and don't really think I belong there, but to be working with someone like Don Patterson, who's my editor at Picador, I mean, that for me is a big deal because for ages, for years, I had to put my own...

You know this, I had to put my own poetry books out to start my own publishing company, I had to print my own stuff.

The books were always really expensive because I wanted them to look really beautiful, so we had to, like... spend loads of money because it was just the whole thing, the whole process of, like, you know, bootlegging your own thing and turning up and selling it.

And suddenly Picador, who were like, you know, it's a big deal.

And they published poetry and it's a whole different world of poetry to the world that we know.

And to go into that world, I was, like, you know, intimidated and everything else.

So I understand that they're supposed to be able to be read separately, but I actually think that they have greater worth when in concert with one another.

So that's Column to Beans, The Bridge, which is published by Picador.

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The week after that, we will be reading John of John by Douglas Sturt, published by Picador.

Basically, John of John is about a 22 year old who has been living the last four years in Edinburgh.

in an art college and has now gone back to his home in the...

work? Yeah, well, there was a bit of a delay.

She first entered my consciousness in that great period, I think, you know, in the late 70s, early 80s, that great sort of the first Picador era.

So I associate her absolutely with those Picador books, such as Speedboat by Renata Adler, The Richard Broughtigan books, you know, back then, Penguin Modern Classics were a guarantee of sort of quality.

But Picador was a bit more sort of hippie-ish and sort of, yeah.

And, you know, what else? There was also God, Gurdjieff, or I've just been rereading Rabbit is Rich.

Kerchief is Rabbit Angstrom's.