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Randolph Healy & Maurice Scully: Mouthpuller (Coelacanth / Wild Honey Press, 2000. CD. 52 mins. £10+£1.50 p&p. Available from Wild Honey at 16a Ballyman Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.) Healy reads the whole of Scales and a couple of shorter pieces, while Scully reads the Cohering sequence as well as selections from Zulu Dynamite and Steps. This CD is well worth the investment. I'd not previously had the pleasure of hearing Randolph Healy read, so this was a fine new experience. I did prefer to have the printed text in front of me as I listened, but this was more as an aid to concentration than a reflection on the two readers, who do a fine job of conveying what are sometimes quite dense poems. Highly recommended.