New Departures, Issues 25-26 (POP! The Poetry Olympics Party Anthology), 2000

Burroughs contributes "The Evening News", pp. 26-27, and a reproduced letter to editor Michael Horovitz.

Eric "J" Thribb also contributes a poem called "In Memoriam William Burroughs, Great American Writer".

Published in London, England by New Departures in 2000.

Bibliographic Information:

• Shoaf II.426 (as a book)
• Schottlaender v4.C654
• Raven 20000000NDEP.0.25

Contents:

• Paul Weller:
• "Party" (poetry)
• "A Jazz Poem?" (poetry)
• Lemn Sissay: "Olympic Invocation" (poetry)
• Michael Horowitz:
• "Salutations, Keynotes, Reaffirmations – beyond the Mercenary Nillenium [sic]" (editorial)
• "i.m. Samuel Beckett" (poetry)
• from A New Waste Land: Britain at Nillennium [sic] (poetry)
• from Growing Up (poetry)
• "April 1995 (Mum's last Pesach)" (prose)
• Ted Hughes: 
• "The Word River" (poetry)
• "Beware of the Stars" (poetry)
• "To Be Harry" (poetry)
• "Full Moon and Little Frieda" (poetry)
• John Agard: 
• from The Gift of Flame (poetry)
• "Prayer to Laughter" (poetry)
• "For Ted Hughes" (poetry)
• Patience Agbabi: 
• "if" (poetry)
• "Ruby, the Hypodermic DJ" (poetry)
• Beryl Bainbridge: untitled prose
• Samuel Beckett: 
• "something there" (poetry)
• "PSS" (poetry)
• Valerie Bloom: "Whose Dem Boots"" (poetry)
• Jean 'Binta' Breeze: 
• "Of Wild Horses and Things" (poetry)
• "Blues" (poetry)
• William Burroughs:
• "The Evening News" (prose)
• letter to Michael Horowitz
• Mel Calman: "My God!" (comic)
• Claire Calman: "The Eighth Day..." (prose)
  
• John Cooper Clarke: 
• "Burnley" (poetry)
• "I Wrote the Songs" (poetry)
• Carol Ann Duffy:
• "Liverpool Echo" (poetry)
• "The Virgin Punishing the Infant" (poetry)
• "--/-/99?" (poetry)
• Ian Dury:
• "Geraldine" (lyrics)
• "Bed 'O' Roses" (lyrics)
• Harry Fainlight: 
• "July 1959" (poetry)
• "Fugue" (poetry)
• "The Jew" (poetry)
• Julie Felix: "Sappho" (poetry)
• Allen Ginsberg:
• "Mandala" (poetry)
• "Returning to the Country for a Brief Visit" (poetry)
• "Maturity" (poetry)
• from After Lalon (poetry)
• Günter Grass:
• "Photogenic" (poetry)
• "Something Familiar" (poetry)
• Thom Gunn: "Blackie, the Electric Rembrandt" (poetry)
• Seamus Heaney: "Audenesque" (poetry)
• John Hegley:
• "Mobilephobia" (poetry)
• "Unseeing Sense" (poetry)
  
• David Hockney: "Remembering Stephen Spender" (memorial)
• Adam Horovitz: 
• "The Root of a Scream" (poetry)
• "In Memory" (poetry)
• "Frances Horovitz: 
• "Riddle" (poetry)
• "Letter to My Son" (poetry)
• "Second Day at Lumb Bank" (poetry)
• Libby Houston: "A Thanks, for Allen Ginsberg" (poetry)
• Frieda Hughes: 
• "Caesarian" (poetry)
• "Readers" (poetry)
• Linton Kwesi Johnson: "Di Anfinish Revalueshan" (poetry)
• Mahmood Jamal: "Refugee" (poetry)
• Ernst Jandl: "Pain through Friction" (concrete poetry)
• Jack Kerouac: poetry)
• Hanif Kureishi: "A Book that Inspired Me: Jack Kerouac's On the Road" (prose)
• R. D. Laing: poetry
• Inge Elsa Laird: "The State" (poetry)
• Fran Landesman: 
• "Are You Satisfied?" (poetry)
• "Deeply Shallow" (poetry)
• "White Nightmare" (poetry)
• "Doner Kebabs" (poetry)
• Christopher Logue: "I Shall Vote Labour" (poetry)
• Peter Brookes: comic
• Steve Bell: comic
• Damon Albarn: "On Your Own" (lyrics)
• Kirsty MacColl: "Autungirlsoup" (poetry)
• Shirley Manson: "Hammering in My Head" (poetry)
• Ernst Moerman: "Louis Armstrong" (poetry)
• Adrian Mitchell: 
• "Poet at Work" (poetry)
• "Full Moon and Little Frieda" (poetry)
• "Not Cricket" (poetry)
• "Out of Focus" (poetry)
• "Ted-Watching" (poetry)
  
• "Moondog" (poetry)
• Moondog: "All Is Loneliness" (score)
• Jill Neville: 
• "The Freud's Prayer" (poetry)
• "Love Affair" (poetry)
• "Pop Heart" (poetry)
• Grace Nichols: 
• "My Northern-Sister" (poetry)
• "Abra-Cadabra" (poetry)
• Brian Patten: "Blake's Purest Daughter" (poetry)
• Kathleen Raine: 
• "Harvest of Learning..." (poetry)
• "What Are Those Golden Builders Doing?" (poetry)
• Ifigenija Simonovic:
• "Nights Are Dark" (poetry)
• "Two Stages" (poetry)
• "Little Boat Floating" (poetry)
• Stevie Smith:
• "My Muse" (poetry)
• "Words" (poetry)
• Stephen Spender:
• "From My Diary" (poetry)
• "A Girl Who Has Drowned Herself Speaks" (poetry)
• Allen Ginsberg and Joe Strummer: "Ghetto Defendant" (lyrics)
• Eric "J" Thribb: 
• "In Memoriam William Burroughs, Great American Writer" (poetry)
• "The Six Pips" (poetry)
• Stan Tracey: "I Lost My Step in Nantucket" (score)
• Ruth Vaughn: from Bone Girl (poetry)
• Keith Waithe: "The Little Prince's Sahara" (score)
• Selma Benjamin: 
• "Mother" (poetry)
• "For my Mother" (poetry)
• Paul Weller: "Ghosts of Dachau" (lyrics)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Michael Horovitz
• Project Coordinator: Joe Paice
• Design Initiation: Ian Noble
• Cover Design and Layout: Markus Obladen
• Project Assistant: Tammy Stone
• Design: Kristoffer Busch, Maro Kakari, David Kendall, Graham Mansfield, Claes Morén, Karin Ödin, Anna Sjöstrand, Jeanette Söderqvist, Christoph Stolberg, Martin Vowles
• Printing: Sterling