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The Rome Air Naked by Philip Salom

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April 1996, no. 179

The Rome Air Naked by Philip Salom

Penguin, $18.95 pb, 134 pp

The Rome Air Naked by Philip Salom

by
April 1996, no. 179

‘But beside me I had a new laptop computer …’

The publisher’s promotional material which was included with the review copy of Philip Salom’s new poetry collection, The Rome Air Naked, indicated the book would be launched ‘with an innovative exhibition which will use computer technology to extend the written work into an aural, visual and multimedia presentation’. After reading the author’s introduction and then dipping into the poems for the first time, I only wished I could be there, to listen to, and participate in, the promised performance which will combine visual image and sound, animating the poetry, allowing it to breathe off the printed page, to dance freely in space.

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