DOWN WITH BEAUTY explores, in a series of linked dialogues, dramatic monologues and short fictions, the themes of exile, the aftermath of war, paranoia, improvised music and nothingness. The collection is completed with the full text of NOSTALGIA FOR UNKNOWN CITIES, previously published separately. KEN EDWARDS is a writer, editor and publisher. He ran Reality Studios magazine from 1978-88 and later co-founded Reality Street. He lives in Hastings, on the south coast of England, where he currently plays bass guitar with The Moors.

In "Keys to Lasting Joy" you will discover 11 principles gleaned from the life of the apostle Paul as he lived it as a prisoner in Rome when he wrote to the Philippian church. These revelations came during the depths of hardship and despair few experience, yet he shared how God's love is bigger than, and greater than any of our circumstances. These 11 principles will help you prepare the soil of your life in order for the fruit of Joy to be produced in abundance. Also included is a Study Guide. My prayer for you is that you will begin to live life as God intended.

CLASP is an exercise in collective remembering - with, as Lawrence Upton's essay suggests, a consciousness of memory work as also a process of selecting, forgetting and inventing. The original plan had been to focus on the 1970s, the decade during which Ken Edwards and I] had co-edited Alembic with Peter Barry. Some of those we approached felt they could not usefully remember enough of their poetry activities in this period; some were reluctant to return to the past. Also, as the project developed, it became clear that the original plan wouldn't work: the history did not fit neatly into the...