London Magazine, Volume 7, Number 9, December 1967

Burroughs contributes “The Perfect Servant”, pp. 8-12.

Published in London, England by London Magazine in December, 1967.

"The Perfect Servant" was later included in Cavalier in 1968, and later in the book Exterminator! (1974).

This issue includes a poster for the magazine by Alexander Calder.

Bibliographic Information:

• M&M 186
• Shoaf III.114
• Schottlaender v4.C164
• Raven 19671200LMAG.7.9, b2

Contents:

• Philip Sutton: cover illustration
• Robert Bly:
• "Driving Through Minnesota During the Hanoi Bombings" (poetry)
• "Foreign Policy" (poetry)
• "Counting Small-Boned Bodies" (poetry)
• "Opening an Oyster" (poetry)
• Käthe Kollwitz: art
• William Burroughs: "The Perfect Servant" (prose)
• Alan Riddell: concrete poetry
• Philip Larkin: "Sympathy in White Major" (poetry)
• S. M. Alyansky: "The Last Months of Alexander Blok" (prose)
• Stephen Spender:
• "The Lost Days" (poetry)
• "Sentenced" (poetry)
• Gavin Ewart: "Was W.S. Gilbert a Greater Poet than W. B. Yeats?" (essay)
• George Barker: "Artemodorus Farewell" (poetry)
• Ugo Betti: "A Theft of Washing" (prose)
• C. Day Lewis:
• "Hero and Saint" (poetry)
• "All Souls' Night" (poetry)
• Alexander Calder:
• drawings
• poster
• Patrick Procktor: "A Return to Watercolour" (essay)
• Christopher Gibbs: illustration
• Jane Kasmin: illustration
• Tony Palmer: "Technicolour Yawn – 2: The Monument" (essay)
• Laurie Lee: "Shot Fox" (poetry)
• Josef Herman: "Postcards from Abroad" (art)
• H. H. Cooper: "Notes from the Fifties" (prose)
• James Price: "Good Morning, Everybody, this is the Barrow Gang" (review, film)
• Philip French: "Bergman and Rivette" (review, film)
• Frank Marcus: "New Approaches" (review, books)
• Stephen Gardiner: "The Merger" (review, architecture)
• Brian Jones: poetry reviews
• Tony Tanner: book review
• Brian Glanville: book review
• Julian Symons: book review
• Keith Vaughan: book review
• G. S. Fraser: book review
• Maurice Cranston: book review
• Frank McGuinness: book review

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Alan Ross
• Editorial: Hugo Williams, Jennifer Mulherin, Arthur Boyars
• Printer: Shenval Press, London