Does Anyone Know What's Going on with Notes from the Gean?

[Jack Galmitz]

What's going on with Notes from the Gean?

[colin stewart jones]

yes!

me 8)

be on the cyber stands in less than 6 hours from now

i will announce as soon as we have finished proofing

cheers

col :)

[AlanSummers]

Lots! :-)

Including an interview with your good self.

This is issue is definitely more cross platform than ever, and has lots of literary features.

Alan

What's going on with Notes from the Gean?

[colin stewart jones]

and a very enjoyable review/interview it is too

col :)

[Jack Galmitz]

Thank you, Colin.
I'm glad you liked it.
Jack

[AlanSummers]

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The Gean Tree Press and Notes from the Gean have now gravitated here with many more features alongside the respected journal itself: http://www.geantreepress.com/Home_Page.html

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[AlanSummers]

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Gean Tree Press has sadly ceased to run. Its creator is concentrating on other pursuits.

As a former editor (for the linked verse section) in the past, may I thank all readers, writers, subscribers, and previous editors, and Colin Stewart Jones, who helped this magazine become a highly respected publication.

warm regards,

Alan

[sandra]

Hi Alan,

I tried to find John Carley's free ebook that Gean Tree Press published (Nothing but the Wind), but the link no longer works. Do you know if there's an archive somewhere or if the book lives on elsewhere? It seems a shame for it to have disappeared.

Thanks,
Sandra

[AlanSummers]

Hi Sandra,

Gean Tree Press has ceased trading, so that means both the magazine Notes from the Gean, and the Gean Tree Press books are now unavailable.

There is a website in progress that will record all collaborations with John Carley in various linked verse formats.   It's possible that Nothing but the Wind could eventually be included.  That would be a great additional delight.

That's a lot of work behind the scenes, so I doubt there will be any official announcements yet, until permissions are granted with all authors who collaborated with John Carley on renku, rengay, etc...

warm regards,

Alan

Hi Alan,

I tried to find John Carley's free ebook that Gean Tree Press published (Nothing but the Wind), but the link no longer works. Do you know if there's an archive somewhere or if the book lives on elsewhere? It seems a shame for it to have disappeared.

Thanks,
Sandra

[Stewart Baker]

Sadly, it doesn't look like the title existed anywhere other than on the Gean Tree website. 

(I searched the wayback machine on the Internet Archive, and also the UK Web Archive from the British Library, but neither of them had the books page archived.)

[sandra]

Thanks Alan and Stewart. Fingers crossed that the project Alan alludes to will include it. Appreciate your replies.

[Lorin Ford]

It is a shame that NFTG and its subsequent publications have vanished.

I was one of the four founding editors of NFTG and haiku editor for nine quarterly issues. I was disappointed that most of those issues, which were archived on the old site, vanished from the new website and were not retrieved, but I thought that they would be accessible, if needed, through a British library, the name of which I've forgotten.

I was under the impression that Notes From the Gean and all related publications were being archived with this British library. CSJ advertised that that was happening, in any case, and in glowing terms.

If you, Alan, know which library and can supply the information then requests can be made for access for study and scholarly purposes by anyone ... that is if British archiving libraries operate as their Australian counterparts do. What's needed is the name and address of the library and the relevant ISSN ( for NFTG) and IBSNs (for the e-books)

- Lorin

[Stewart Baker]

The British Library (that is: THE British Library, and not just a library which is British.) has a web archive of the site, but it's slim pickings.

Actually, though!  I looked again and found that it was archived in July of 2013.  Which isn't so bad...  When I checked before, it was only the main page that had been archived, and that was in 2011.

Here's the link if you want to click around: http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20130706220136/http://www.geantreepress.com/

Note that this is a "scraped" mirror of the site, so it's literally just a copy of the files.  Not all the content is there, and if it's not there it's gone.

None of the books are downloadable, for instance.

I checked the WayBack machine, which is like the BL thing but bigger, and it has a few different scrapes: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.geantreepress.com/

Colin's Camaléo page is still active (this is what he used to build up the flipbooks), but unfortunately the only book still listed under Gean Tree Press is his own haibun: http://en.calameo.com/books/0015253703a8a8c57e97c

However, it does appear that Camaléo generates downloadable PDF files which can be downloaded from the site.  Finding somebody who downloaded the Carley book would probably be the easiest way of restoring it to existence...   I'd suggest asking widely on Facebook.

Edit: I asked on Facebook and it seems Carole MacRury has a copy of the PDF.  So if you can get in touch with her, you may be able to ask her to send you a copy of it. :)    (She commented that she had it on a public Facebook post on my wall, so I don't think I'm violating any sort of privacy by saying so.)

[Lorin Ford]

Thanks, Steven, you searched far better than I did! 8) And I couldn't remember if it was THE British Library or just a British library. (Our equivalent library up in Canberra is the ANL)

Through perusing the links you gave, I found what there is of NFTG ...not surprisingly, the issues that weren't archived on the site when CSJ changed websites are not archived here either (the 4 2010 issues and 3 of the 2011 issues) but the rest is available to download as pdf files:

http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20130706220140/http://www.geantreepress.com/Archives.html

Some books, too:
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20130706220136/http://www.geantreepress.com/Books.html

(scroll down past the BL web archive ad, and they're there & downloadable except for the topmost two)

Here,I copied the links for anyone who might want them & find it a bit confusing to access:

CSJ
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive-cy/20130706220245/http://www.geantreepress.com/uploads/a_seal_snorts_out_the_moon.pdf

CSJ (2)

http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive-cy/20130706220232/http://www.geantreepress.com/uploads/Basho_Has_Left_The_Building.pdf

Don Baird

http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive-cy/20130706220249/http://www.geantreepress.com/uploads/L.A._Thru_a_Lens.pdf

Fugiwara Akiko

http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive-cy/20130706220234/http://www.geantreepress.com/uploads/Pho__to__on.pdf

Jack Galmitz

http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive-cy/20130706220247/http://www.geantreepress.com/uploads/Letters.pdf

Phil Madden
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive-cy/20130706220257/http://www.geantreepress.com/uploads/The_Tea_Way.pdf

Steven Carter
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive-cy/20130706220254/http://www.geantreepress.com/uploads/Letters_to_My_Parents.pdf

an'ya
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive-cy/20130706220225/http://www.geantreepress.com/uploads/kokoro_arts.pdf

Jack Galmitz (2)

http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive-cy/20130706220239/http://www.geantreepress.com/uploads/OBJECTS.pdf

Ed Markowski

http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive-cy/20130706220241/http://www.geantreepress.com/uploads/Americana.pdf

NFTG

http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20130706220140/http://www.geantreepress.com/Archives.html

Thanks for sourcing John's book via Carole. (I don't belong to any of the social media) I'll drop Carole a line. 

- Lorin

[AlanSummers]

Well done Steven and Lorin, looks like you made available many of the archives.

warm regards,

Alan