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The earliest issues of the magazine Geographical

available at https://institutions.exacteditions.com/geographical

Consumer magazines are a primary form of social history. For much of the 19th century, and especially the 20th century, consumer magazines became the most widespread and the most vivid form of popular culture. From the high end elite magazines Scientific American, Vogue, Punch to the merely but gloriously popular mass market Ladies Home Journal, Hello or Readers Digest, these titles — and many more — … Keep Reading

Ten of Carcanet’s new poetry titles are available for free reading, enjoyment and evaluation for the month of October. As digital editions, here they are:

Several Deer – Adam Crothers:

Measures of Expatriation – Vahni Capildeo:

Serengeti Songs – Chris McCully:

Skies – Alison Brackenbury:

Understand the Weapon, Understand the Wound – John Cornford:

Through – David Herd:

To Fold the Evening Star – Ian McMillan:

Herne the Hunter – Peter McDonald:

The Homeric Hymns – McDonald:

Holy Toledo – … Keep Reading

Exact Editions is an access platform, not a download platform, which enables users to access books through the web at any time. This means that the platform can be used to give time-limited but fully open access to complete books. When books are distributed as complete files for the end-user’s system, as is almost always the case with PDF files and eBook formats, there is no easy way of stopping their use at the end of a certain period. So … Keep Reading

Starting today for a week Exact Editions and Carcanet Press are providing Open Access to a wonderful collection of 50 Carcanet titles via Twitter tweets. See here

And now for one of Mervyn Peake’s nonsense verses to whet the appetite and cover the head: