Sean Williams

First Gary Numan. Then Kim Wilkins. Who next?

Let me begin by saying this: The Tangled Bank is an anthology of "speculative evolution", possibly "the only anthology of fiction celebrating the 2009 Darwin anniversaries". It'll be published electronically to mark the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species, from which it takes its title. I'm very pleased to be in it, with a series of linked poems called "The Origin of Haiku by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Renga in the Struggle for Meaning".

Ahem. That's right. Charles Darwin, come on down. No one escapes the dreadful appropriation of my muse!

Anyway, the one chapter I didn't plunder was the preface to the third edition, so I've plucked out this pithy little blurb from it, just to complete the set:Doesn't that make you want to rush out and buy it? (Hmm. Be assured the book itself will be better. The preface was a bit dry.)

Meanwhile, if you're interested in the whole remix phenomenon, you'll also want to get your hands on Through the Clock's Workings, the now-legendary Remix My Lit experience anthologised by the super Amy Barker and published by Sydney Uni Press. I'm very proud to be in that too--with two more poems. (Does this make me a real writer now?) It has an awesome cover. Check it: