EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

I'm delighted to present the second issue for 2016, the ten-year-anniversary of Galatea Resurrects (or GR). Thanks as ever--for at least ten years!--to GR's generous volunteer staff of reviewers. In addition to presenting wonderful feature articles, we feature 62 NEW POETRY REVIEWS in this 27th issue.

Issue No. 27 also will be the last issue-oriented release for Galatea Resurrects. Commencing in January 2017, GR will revert to publishing reviews as they are submitted and accepted. Go HERE for the Galatea Resurrects 2017 website--we are open for business! That is, we are ready to take new reviews effective immediately!

With Issue No. 27, GR has provided 1,731 new reviews and 154 reprinted reviews (the latter brings online engagements previously available only viz print or first published in now-defunct online sites). With this issue, we also increased our coverage of poetry publishers by eight to 587 publishers in 18 countries. This is important as much of the ground-breaking poetry work is published by independent and/or relatively small presses who (by the nature of their work) are not always as well-known as they deserve. 

Galatea Resurrects presents reviews, but what we're really about is engagement in any form with poetry in any form. The form need not just be published text; in this issue, for example, we present engagements with a poetry festival in Glasgow in October 2016, three visual poetry works by Spencer Selby, and a poetry zine. We also want to present online any material that's still offline. This means that we're open to reprinting introductions, prefaces or afterwords in poetry or poetry-related books. In this issue, we present Crag Hill's Preface to ALPHABET NOIR by Nico Vassilakis as well as Robert Kelly's Foreword and Preface, respectively, to Waters Of by Billie Chernicoff and Uncreated Mirror by Tamas Panitz. If you have such material, contact us!

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Poetry has enhanced my love of lists. Here are GR's latest poetry-lovin' stats!

Issue 1: 27 new reviews

Issue 2: 39 new reviews (one project was reviewed twice by different reviewers)

Issue 3: 49 new reviews (two projects were each reviewed twice)

Issue 4: 61 new reviews (one project was reviewed thrice, and three projects were each reviewed twice)

Issue 5: 56 new reviews (four projects were each reviewed twice)

Issue 6: 56 new reviews (one project was reviewed twice)

Issue 7: 51 new reviews

Issue 8: 64 new reviews (3 projects were each reviewed twice)

Issue 9: 65 new reviews

Issue 10: 68 new reviews (1 project was reviewed thrice and 1 project was reviewed twice)

Issue 11: 72 new reviews (1 project was reviewed thrice)

Issue 12: 87 new reviews (1 project was reviewed twice)

Issue 13: 55 new reviews (1 project was reviewed twice)

Issue 14: 64 new reviews (3 projects were reviewed twice)

Issue 15: 72 new reviews (1 project was reviewed thrice and 4 projects were reviewed twice)

Issue 16: 73 new reviews (2 projects were reviewed twice)

Issue 17: 108 new reviews (3 projects were reviewed twice)

Issue 18: 104 new reviews (3 projects were reviewed twice)

Issue 19: 68 new reviews (1 project was reviewed twice)

Issue 20: 64 new reviews

Issue 21: 78 new reviews (2 projects were reviewed twice)

Issue 22: 40 new reviews

Issue 23: 69 new reviews (3 projects were reviewed twice)

Issue 24: 53 new reviews

Issue 25: 80 new reviews
Issue 26: 90 new reviews (3 projects were reviewed twice)
Issue 27: 62 new reviews (1 project was reviewed twice)

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I continue to encourage authors/publishers to send in your projects for potential review—note that because we believe in Poetry's immortality, GR does not limit reviews to just "recent" poetry publications. And, obviously, people are following up with your review copies (see below)! Information for submissions and available review copies HERE. 

Of reviewed publications, the following were generated from review copies sent to GR:

Issue 1: 9 out of 27 new reviews

Issue 2: 25 out of 39 new reviews

Issue 3: 27 out of 49 new reviews

Issue 4: 41 out of 61 new reviews

Issue 5: 34 out of 56 new reviews

Issue 6: 35 out of 56 new reviews

Issue 7: 41 out of 51 new reviews

Issue 8: 35 out of 64 new reviews

Issue 9: 42 out of 65 new reviews

Issue 10: 46 out of 68 new reviews

Issue 11: 46 out of 72 new reviews

Issue 12: 35 out of 87 new reviews

Issue 13: 38 out of 55 new reviews

Issue 14: 40 out of 64 new reviews

Issue 15: 43 out of 72 new reviews

Issue 16: 49 out of 73 new reviews

Issue 17: 73 out of 108 new reviews

Issue 18: 84 out of 104 new reviews

Issue 19: 41 out of 68 new reviews

Issue 20: 50 out of 64 new reviews

Issue 21: 46 out of 78 new reviews

Issue 22: 30 out of 40 new reviews

Issue 23: 49 out of 69 new reviews

Issue 24: 28 out of 53 new reviews

Issue 25: 66 out of 80 new reviews

Issue 26: 69 out of 90 new reviews
Issue 27: 42 out of 62 new reviews

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Now and then, Galatea Resurrects presents a "GR Publisher Prize" to support poetry presses that we feel like supporting. We're delighted to announce that reviewers for this issue each will receive a single-author poetry collection of their choice from Black Radish Books. Reviewers can contact me with their choice, and my thanks to Black Radish for releasing such worthwhile books!

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The beauty of Blogger is how typos can be corrected at any point in time.  If you see any typos, feel free to let me know as I can still correct them even after the issue's release.

I hope you enjoy this issue of Galatea Resurrects!

Eileen Tabios

Editor

Dec. 12, 2016