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ISSUE 1 Autumn 1995

 

In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face.

George Orwell

 

Editorial

Alan Dent

Irving Howe And The Legacy Of Dissent

Jim Burns

Shortchanged

Fred Voss

Winning Fred Voss
Why I Will Never Stop Writing Fred Voss
Suicide Fred Voss

Freud And The Myth Of Instinct

Paul Vinit

To Caitlin Riding On My Shoulders

Adrian Mitchell

Chirac In A Hole Lot Of Trouble

Richard Lawson

Not For Aesthetic

Geoff Hattersley

Authentic Sounds

John Dunton

Bedtime Story

Gael Turnbull

Bosnia: the more the Gael Turnbull
The Betrayal of Democracy Alan Dent

Doctrine

Patricia Pogson

Epilogue

Geoffrey Holloway

Irrelevance Versus Irresponsibility

Clement Greenberg

Then

Philip Callow

Reviews

Maybe It's all True - Fred Voss

Marcelli Kapek

The Self as Agent - John MacMurray

Alan Dent

Persons in Relation - John MacMurray

Alan Dent

Reason and Emotion - John MacMurray

Alan Dent

ISSUE 2 Spring 1996

 

What a difficult thing prose is! It’s much easier to write good poetry

Apollinaire

Editorial

Alan Dent

Elegy For The World: Loss And The Poetry Of WS Graham

Steven Blyth

Understanding The Rain

Adrian Mitchell

In Praise of Booksellers (and others)

John Dunton

Painted Card

Philip Callow

The Sexiness Of Woodwork

Tom Wood

Music No One Will Hear

Geoff Hattersley

Alfred Kazin: A Writing Life

Jim Burns

An Incident In The Class War

John Lucas

Herbert Spencer: The Illusion Of Perfectibility

Paul Vinit

Shrunken

Fred Voss

Down But Not Out

Fred Voss

Mysteries

Fred Voss

Broken

Fred Voss

Dealing With It

Fred Voss

John MacMurray And The Status Of Science

Alan Dent

No Assurance

Gael Turnbull

Attritions

Gael Turnbull

Cookery

Gael Turnbull

Never Again

Michael Curtis

City Tour

Steven Blyth

Reviews

Fires In October - Philip Callow

Christopher Tate

Collected Essays Of John Goode

John Lucas

For Jazz: 21 Sonnets - Peter McSloy

John Dunton

ISSUE 3 Summer 1996

 

I had to tell him that the brain is not the seat of intelligence. It simply gives you a headache. It is the intelligent life of the heart that teaches us to know good from evil.

Christopher Hope

Editorial
The British Way Of Life John White
$350 A Month Fred Voss
Unsightly Fred Voss
Our Brothers Fred Voss
Enterprise Fred Voss
Things Are Not As They Seem Jay Burnett
Edward Hopper Adrian Mitchell
Condorcet: The Infinity of Progress Paul Vinit
Mona Lisa The Fishing Boat Jenny Swann
The End of the Holiday Jenny Swann
August the Fifteenth Jacqueline Karp-Gendre
Session Howard Wright
Modern Greek Poetry John Lucas
Staff Rota Andrew Pye
Henry Roth Jim Burns
Cat Day Philip Ramp
Rebel Without a Pause: The Poetic Structures of Ogden Nash Steven Blyth
A Bike For Christmas Philip Callow
Elpenor Takis Sinopoulos
Drifting With James Hanley Howard Slater
Kenneth Patchen: A Personal View Philip Ramp
Getting It Measured Tom Wood

ISSUE 4 Spring 1997

 

The production of beauty to induce aesthetic experience strikes me as a harmless but ludicrous and childish occupation.

Tadeusz Rozewicz

My Father Built His Own House.

Pam Bridgeman

Speaking Plainly

Pam Bridgeman

The Names of the Forgotten

John Dunton

Pearls

Fred Voss

Paradise

Fred Voss

On the bottom.

Fred Voss

Balls

Fred Voss

Turgot and the Contradiction of Progress

Paul Vinit

The Locomotive Shop

Alan Daggers

Isaac Rosenfeld

Jim Burns

The Fool Who Rules the School

Nick Toczek

The Silence of Stars

Philip Callow

Blokes

Steven Blyth

Car Boot Sale

Steven Blyth

Buttocks and Erections

Tom Wood

Direct Object of the Subjective Case

Joan Jobe Smith

Taste Buds

Joan Jobe Smith

The British Way of Life II

John White

Work-Boots

Gary Allen

In Memoriam Paul Potts

Jim Morgan

Two Items of News

Jacqueline Karp Gendre

Review:

The Beauty Queen of Leenane Martin McDonagh

Stella Jonrose

Confessions of an Old Believer -Jim Burns

Christopher Tate

The Gox - Steven Blyth

Christopher Tate

Poems for the Millennium -Rothenburg

Jim Burns

ISSUE 5

 

The trick is to go on living even when you’ve found out what kind of a world it really is

Harvey Swados 

Editorial

Alan Dent

Why Socialism ..

Albert Einstein

The Beautiful Ghosts

Adrian Mitchell

Reflections On Odysseus Elytis.. . .

Philip Ramp

Living Graveyard

Fred Voss

Lifesavers

Fred Voss

We'd Better Not Lose Touch With It

Fred Voss

Disowned

Fred Voss

Bebop and Bands

John Dunton

Journey

Steven Blyth

Team Photo

Steven Blyth

Words For Painters

Jim Burns

An Alphabet For Yugoslavia

Jacqueline Karp Gendre

The Leningrad Hospital

Victor Serge

Nothing Too Much

Jim Barrass

Memory

Jim Barrass

Saint-Simon: The Orderly Society

Paul Vinit

Pictures in The Wardrobe

Gary Allen

The Irresponsibility Of Optimism

Robert Senior

At First Sight

David Caddy

Last Suppers

David Craig

Knight Wood Factory

Peter Lewin

Reviews

The Poorhouse Fugitives - Maidment

Andy Croft

Attempts On Her Life - Martin Crimp

Stella Jonrose

ISSUE 6

 

Man is incapable of living alone and is incapable also of living in society. What Shall we do? 

Georges Duhamel

Editorial

Alan Dent

Where Is My Woman, My Woman

Mario Montalbetti

Mac Orlan

Alexis Lykiard

Loss

Fred Voss

Sometimes Maybe The Only Difference is Luck

Fred Voss

Mythic

Fred Voss

Jewels

Fred Voss

A Geographical Surrealism

David Tipton

Girl

Jose Cerna

A Cumbrian Genius: The Novels Of John Murray

Alan Dent

Laughter

Jose Watanabe

Long Beach Poetry

Joan Jobe Smith & Fred Voss

Cowboy

Geoff Hattersley

Room On Top

Andy Edge

Anniversary Greeting In Terms Of A Car Boot Sale

Gael Turnbull

Anniversary Greeting in Terms Of Not Taking Part in the National Lottery

Gael Turnbull

A Lady Of Pleasure, The Netherbow, Seventeen Hundred and Something

Gael Turnbull

The Popular James Moody

Jim Burns

Christmas In Tenerife

Michael Tolkien

Job Description

Steven Blyth

Whiter Than White

Alexis Lykiard

Tory Canvassers in The Lunch Hour

Alexis Lykiard

School Mistress

David H. W. Grubb

The Light Of Day

David H. W. Grubb

A Letter To Jill French

John Freeman

Reviews

Lost Earth: A Life of Cezanne by Philip Callow

Path Through the Canefields by Jose Watanabe.

Alexis Lykiard: Selected Poems 1956-96

Ken Worpole: Staying Close to the River

Nowhere Special by Andy Croft

Birth of the Owl Butterflies by Ruth Sharman

Baddy by Steven Blyth

ISSUE 7

 

When the people think of nothing the government is happy 

Ismail Kadare

The Increasing Menace Of Society

Ortega y Gasset

Colette's Chair

Linda Rocheleau

Thank You

Linda Rocheleau

Cypress

Linda Rocheleau

From The Diaries & Notebooks Of Preston Pimley

Stephen Wade

The Remedy

Jose Watanabe

In Her Letter My Sister,Dora, Says

Jose Watanabe

To The Night

Jose Watanabe

The Dying Woman

Jose Watanabe

Translated by Dave Tipton &

C.A.deLomellini

Anatole Broyard

Jim Burns

A Spaniard Speaks Of His Country

Luis Cernuda

Pilgrim

Luis Cernuda.

Translated by John Hanson

Left Behind

Andy Croft

Asleep In The Grass

Emillo Prados

Translated by John Hanson

Fancy A Bit More?

Tom Wood

The Buried Lovers

Vincente Alexandre

Translated by John Hanson

Horse Chestnut Candles

Jenny Swann

Artsworkers

Alexis Lykiard

Maria Arce de Colchado

Tullo Mora

Translated by Dave Tipton &

CA de Lomellini

When The Sunlight On An Arm Is Like Gold

Fred Voss

Glasgow Photograph

Clare Crossman

Unto The Seventh Generation

Merryn Williams

Your Science Is A Fart

Ben Wilensky

Springtime

Tu Fu

Afloat At Night

Tu Fu

On A Voyage In Old Age

Tu Fu

Translated by Philip Callow

active participant

Gerald Locklin

Reviews

The Weir by Conor Mcpherson

Stella Jonrose

Closer by Patrick Marber

Alan Dent

The Light is of Love, I Think:new and selected poems by John Freeman.

John Dunton

Transmutations - Gael Turnbull

Family Chronicle - Dave Tipton

The Pow-wow Cafe - Joan Jobe Smith
The Children's Game - Dorothy Nimmo
The Sign for Water - Jo Haslam
Tattoos for Mother's Day - Jean Sprackland
The Boy from the Chemist's is here to see You- Paul Farley

ISSUE 8

 

Do you want to ruin society and civilization with your laughter? Yes, oh yes! 

Joe Orton

Hunger And Some Thirst

Alexis Lykiard

Fuck-Me-Quick

Julie Ashpool

Long Live Poetree

Jean-Pierre Verheggen

Bon Appetit

Elizabeth Howkins

We Do Not Wear One Chain

Fred Voss

I Know This Man

Fred Voss

It's Not Going To Happen

Fred Voss

As We Speak of Justice and Virtue

Fred Voss

Ben Maddow

Jim Burns

Grisedale

Andy Croft

Family Portrait

Frederick Lightfoot

Laziness

Pablo Neruda

Mass Culture

Alan Dent

The Drumlin Country

Tom Argles

Fred Voss Interviewed

Jules Smith

He Held His Woman

Kim Taplin

The Nightwalker

Philip Sidney Jennings

Rotating weathers

Martin Hayes

Material

Martin Hayes

Torture

Martin Hayes

Games

Martin Hayes

Levels

Martin Hayes

Our mechanic

Martin Hayes

Antonio

Tulio Mora

Seven Breaths, Fifteen Seconds

Bernadette Higgins

Salt

Howard Wright

Toast

Howard Wright

The Story Of My Life

t d week

At Five In the Afternoon During My First Winter In Lima

Jose Cerna

Reviews

On The Buses with Dostoyevsky by Geoff Hattersley

Bill Hudson

The Last Bus by Paul Summers

Andy Croft

ISSUE 9 Spring 1999

 

Business is no good

D.H. Lawrence

 

William Herrick and the Spanish Civil War

Jim Burns

Defining Terms

Alexis Lykiard

Making It

Alexis Lykiard

The 1913 Derby

Alexis Lykiard

Anna Seghers in English

John Manson

The Woman Who Arrives On The Hour

Sid Thomas

European

Sid Thomas

The Price In The Eyes

Fred Voss

Numbers Under Plastic

Fred Voss

Something To Get Through A Day & A Life

Fred Voss

Gears And Bones

Fred Voss

In Defence Of Dylan Thomas

Anthony Cooney

How Are You?

Michael Curtis

Crossing The Line

Ken Clay

Freedom

Martin Hayes

Lonesome Cowboy

Martin Hayes

Innocent

Martin Hayes

Confidence

Martin Hayes

West Coast Sounds

John Dunton

Keene, New Hampshire

Andrew Parker

Venus de Mersey

Steven Waling

Lessons

Geoff Tomlinson

Hereditary

Michael Tolkien

Old

Jason Wood

Taps

Julianne Aridazola

An Accessible Venus

Norman Jope

Bethesda Brought Down

Mike Jenkins

Mark Of Identity

Jose Cerna

Blackberries

Tommy Frank O'Connor

Old Woman

Victor Serge

Now

Thordis Richardsdottir

There's The Return To Myself

Pablo Neruda

A Small Creature

Pablo Neruda

Yes, comrade

Pablo Neruda

Since It Dawned

Pablo Neruda

Reviews

The Dog's Not Laughing by Jim Greenhalf

Alan Dent

The Radical Twenties by John Lucas.

Alan Dent

A Weapon In the Struggle: The Cultural History Of the Communist Party In Britain. Edited by Andy Croft.

Alan Dent

ISSUE 10 Autumn 1999

 

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, or exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.

 

Emerson.

 

Editorial

Alan Dent

Scarlet Runner

Stephanie Norgate

Trevail (1)

Stephanie Norgate

French Leave

Ken Clay

Affair

Stuart Pickford

Albanian Jokes

Alexis Lykiard

A Big Hand for Diderot

Alexis Lykiard

Maxwell Bodenheim

Jim Burns

Steel and Soul

Fred Voss

A Kind of Logic

Fred Voss

Lament

Kim Taplin

G.K.Chesterton- A bridge to Modernism?

Anthony Cooney

Two poems

Gerald Locklin

Where We Live

Gerald Locklin

The Film Puts it into Perspective

Gerald Locklin

Quarries

Art Murphy

Poem

Nazim Hikmet

House Plant

Mike Barlow

The Vigil

Mike Barlow

January Afternoon

John Light

The Seduction Chamber

Anna Wigley

Carol Ann Duffy- The Pursuit of the Shared

Alan Dent

Fishing with Grenades

Ben Wilensky

The Goddess

Ben Wilensky

Electrocution in the Rain Forest

Ben Wilensky

Pistons

Ben Wilensky

Most Matters Can Be Ironed Out

Linda Rocheleau

The Strap

Gordon Hodgeon

The House Beautiful

Andy Croft

The Torturer

Peter Bakowski

The Man in the Don't Worry Be Happy T Shirt

Peter Bakowski

Two More Beers

Jim Greenhalf

The Old Guy at Shakespeare and Co

Jim Greenhalf

Reviews

 

First Catch Your Hare - David Crystal

Mark Robinson

Something Small Is Missing -Susan Utting

Mark Robinson

A Mesh of Wires - Christopher North

Mark Robinson

How to Disappear - Amanda Dalton

Mark Robinson

Ob by Peter Reading

Alan Dent

The Man In The White Suit by Nick Drake.

Alan Dent

Fireclay by Stephanie Norgate

Alan Dent

As Good a Reason as Any by Jim Burns

Alan Dent

Carnegie Hall with Tin Walls by Fred Voss.

Alan Dent

New Blood Edited by Neil Astley.

Alan Dent

ISSUE 11

 

Art is so well received because it has lost its sting

Edgar Wind

 

Narcissus Ascendent

Alan Dent

White Sea

Victor Serge

New Labour New London, New Millennium

Alexis Lykiard

Survivals

Gael Turnbull

Awakening

Gael Turnbull

A Memoir

Gael Turnbull

Being Guided

Gael Turnbull

A Spirited Lady

Gael Turnbull

Always

Gael Turnbull

Walter Lowenfels

JimBurns

Crow's Bird Bath at the Solstice

David Craig

Coupled

David Craig

Into Rock (2)

David Craig

The Angels Here

Katherine Banner

cold star

Gordon Wardman

Ted

John Lucas

Coventry Nurse

Noel Coneely

The Damage Done By Angels

Howard Wright

kissing the hand that feeds them

Gerald Locklin

Paul Durcan:the revealing art of concealment

Alan Dent

Good Riddance (1999)

Edward Mackinnon

Unimpeachable

Edward Mackinnon

What Does it Matter to Us

Arthur Rimbaud

The Poor in Church

Arthur Rimbaud

Poem

David Santer

Ethical Giants

Fred Voss

As the graveyards fill with all of those who will never move again

Fred Voss

Like the sun that will rise each day

Fred Voss

As your unemployment runs out

Fred Voss

Flesh

Brendan McMahon

Grand Canyon at the Pompidou

Jim Greenhalf

Radical Chi Chi

Jim Greenhalf

One Evening In Paris

Alfred Bishop

Fig

Peter Day

Lavinia Greenlaw: Invention and artifice

William Park

Reviews

The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy.

Alan Dent

Another Book to Burn Ed J.N.Reilly.

Alan Dent

Letter to Randall Swingler by Andy Croft.

Alan Dent

Reaching for a Stranger by Michael Tolkien.

Alan Dent

Incomers by Mike Sharp.

Alan Dent

ISSUE 12 September 2000

 

Maybe we'll fix it so life won't be printed on dollar bills.

Clifford Odets

 

Henry Murger & Bohemia

Jim Burns

Swamped

Sue Dymoke

Lone Wolf

Jim Greenhalf

Bender's Blitzkrampf

Ken Clay

When Grass is in Short Supply

Kim Taplin

Silence Under the Sun

Fred Voss

An Old Woman with Nothing but Her next Drag on a Cigarette

Fred Voss

The Greatest Reward of All

Fred Voss

Bill Moody's Jazz Novels

John Dunton

The Ronnie Scott Quartet

Andrew Mayne

Scattering Ashes

Dan Wyke

The Goddess

Ben Wilensky

Men of Straw

Alexis Lykiard

The Funfair at Pripyat

Sid Thomas

Nine

RG Gregory

A Class Act

John Lucas

Liberte Egalite Rapacite

Pat Wyndham

The Eyes of the Beholder

James Bell

White Sea (2)

Victor Serge

The Shell

Magherita Guidacci

The River: A Celebration

Luigi Bartolini

The Lucky Ones

Martin Hayes

Just So Blonde

James Burch

The Sounds of Evening

Barry Tebb

Woodchuck

Joan Jobe Smith

The Painting

Mike Barlow

Poet

Jenny Swann

Ooh Aah

Michael Curran

Witness

Jacqueline Karp-Gendre

Review

Jean Rhys Revisited by Alexis Lykiard.

Jay Burnett

The Coming Day by Edward Upward

Andy Croft

Beats, Bohemians and Intellectuals by Jim Burns.

John Dunton

The Collected George Garrett edited by Michael Murphy

John Dunton

Landscape with Portraits by John Freeman

Jim Burns

The Absolute Bottom Line by Keith Martin

Jeremy Worman

ISSUE 13 January 2001

 

Irreverence is the champion of liberty

Mark Twain

 

What Will You Read Tomorrow

John Dunton

On A Recent Reprint Of Wide Sargasso Sea

Alexis Lykiard

White Sea (part 3)

Victor Serge

Two Strangers with Each Others Lives in Their Hands

Fred Voss

The Maestro of the Concrete Floor Fred Voss
And Why Would We Want to? Fred Voss
Tools for Our Sons Fred Voss
Qualified Fred Voss

The Strange Case Of Martha Dodd

Jim Burns -

Mile Five

Andy Croft

Siberia

Norman Jope

The Psychic Fifth

Bill Griffiths

Your Country Needs You

Sid Thomas

Hospital

David Tipton

Non-Contact

Katherine Banner

Expecting The Worst

Alfred Bishop

There's A Break In The Tree-Line

Nigel Jarrett -

The Great Trance

Martin Hayes

Undelivered From Evil Martin Hayes

Realities of Light

Paul Edwards

Laughing at the Black Shirts

Boris Wild

Jane and the IMG

Steven Taylor

Clifford Odets and the American Theatre

Alan Dent

Reviews

Croft, Andy-Selected Poems of Randall Swingler

Alan Dent

Mills, Paul - Dinosaur Point

Alan Dent

Daniels, Peter - Through the Bushes

Alan Dent

Lealman, Brenda - Time You Left

Alan Dent

Dawes, Kwame - Map Maker

Alan Dent

Nimmo, Dorothy - The Wig Box

Alan Dent

Hilton, Jeremy - Earthbound

Alan Dent

Collins, Billy -Taking Off Emily Dickenson's Clothes

Alan Dent

Donaghy, Michael - Conjure

Alan Dent

Donaghy, Michael -Dances Learnt Last Night Poems 1975-1995

Alan Dent

Courtenay, Tom - Dear Tom: Letters from Home

Alan Dent

ISSUE 14 July 2001

 

I am as desirous of being a good neighbour as I am of being a bad subject

Thoreau

 

Quality Time

Sid Thomas

Down But Not Out: Upper East Side New York Sid Thomas

The Poetry Of Robert McAlmon

Jim Burns

House By The Sea

John Light

Moon Above The City

Peter Bakowski

Smiling Girl In A Chemist's Shop

John West

Song For Mario

Gordon Hodgeon

Slaughter & Burn

Edward Mackinnon

White Sea

Victor Serge

Haiku

John Robertson

Especially Neat

James Burch

Quartz Digital

Martin Cook

Down Under & Up Above

Alexis Lykiard

How Dan Dare Shaves

Peter Finch

Silence & Solitude

R.LHughes

Making Sense Of War

Boris Wild

Virtual Memories

James McGonigal & Hamish Whyte

Premature Resurrection

Bob Beagrie

A Fight That Never Ends

Fred Voss

The Hearts of Lions Pound in Tall Grass Fred Voss
As the Bulls Chase Them Down the Streets of Pamplona Fred Voss

Complaining Rather Than Howling

Paul Edwards

Danger: Men At Work

Ken Clay

Just One of Many

Michael Curran

Truth Michael Curran

Remembrance

John Capp

Seeking Victor Jara

Mike Jenkins

The First Lesson

H.A. Wright

Eric Dolphy at the Five Spot

Paul Donnelly

Blues for Dolphy Paul Donnelly

Just

John Lucas

Reviews

Murray, John - John Dory

Barbara Ellis

Borman, Kevin - Inside the New Map

Barbara Ellis

Lucas, John - On the Track

Andy Croft

Thompson, Hunter - Fear and Loathing in America

Bill Broady

Eyre, Richard- Changing Stages British Theatre in 20C

Alan Dent

Herbert, WN - Strong Words Modern Poets on Modern Poetry

Alan Dent

Longley, Edna - Bloodaxe Book of 20C Poetry

Alan Dent