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Peter Brabazon of Callan Co. Kilkenny, released a slender collection entitled 40 poems just last year. It's a slice from over 28 years of writing and shows a poet in search of form, but never quite settling. Brabazon tries his hand at acrostics (one to Deirdre O' Connell formerly of Focus Theatre), concrete poems, and to my knowledge, a new and novel form, in the poem 81 Squares: The question, which when you look at it for obvious reasons can only be called the Sudoku. It's slightly beyond concrete though and for that reason is probably enough to earn him entry to OULIPOU. La Stampa Pagina 7 steals the show however, with a copied list of women's names from an advertisement in an Italian newspaper advertisement. Pure music. Some of the other work is uneven, but there's enough here to make you want to read more. I'm sure there's more to come.