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In this issue of TYPE we have reviews of work by two authors who have not only produced a sizeable amount of work, but are already dead. These writers, for one reason or another, have slipped out of the public’s consciousness; this should not be the case. They are the forgotten writers, better known for other things or not known at all, and they need a voice that will make their presence felt, and who better to do that that those who are committed to showcasing all things new, as these are not canon-weary, book-clubbed to death works, but collections by writers re-found, or, to be precise, found anew. We have pledged to support and publicise new writing; that is our main concern, and we feel that finding anew and re-evaluating fits with this remit. You can be sure that we will not hesitate from sharing with you an otherwise forgotten gem, as we progress by building upon the best work of those who have gone before.
 
There has been continual controversy over the last year – as with every year – of leaked emails containing unfriendly statements about people. This could quite naturally be down to the simple fact that people now prefer to write an email rather than a letter, but there could be a deeper, underlying reason which. When writing letters we get two periods to think about the contents before sending – that of writing and that of going about posting it. With emails we have only the time to think whilst typing. When the internet was in that infantile stage all those many, many years ago we used something called a dial-up-connection. In effect we were treating the internet like a phone we could look down as well as speak down and listen to, and perhaps we still do – we consider an email to be nothing as permanent as a letter simply because we still connect it with the art of conversation, of things said and then left unrecorded, rather like talking on a telephone without letting the other person get a word in edgeways. Thus emails are more flippant, unconsidered, delivered to the keyboard off the tip of the tongue and yet have more in connection with a letter than a telephone call, and if they were treated as such we would not be drowned under point-scoring and mild scandal.