Sidewalk, Volume 1, Number 1, 1960

Contains a review of Burroughs' Naked Lunch by Robin Nisbet, pp. 70-71.

This copy bears the ownership stamp of Barry Miles (Burroughs' biographer) on the first page.

Published in Edinburgh, Scotland by Alex Neish in early 1960.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in M&M
• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19600000SIDE.1.1

Contents: 

• Alex Neish: "Quarterly Comment" (editorials)
• "Anybody Want an Old Dream" (on Scottish television)
• "Literary Pastiche" (on Scottish art)
• "Highland Fling" (on Hugh Fraser in the Highlands)
• "Kicks and Halfpence" (on Football)
• "Valedictory" (on Caryl Chessman)
• Alex Neish:"Advice" (poetry)
• Claud Ollier: "On a Misty Morning" (prose)
• Christopher Logue: "T" (poetry)
• Tristan Corbiere: "Le Poete Contumace" (poetry, translated by Dave Haselwood)
• Gordon Hills: "Beacons" (prose)
• George Todd: 
• "Mulligan Meets Monk" (poetry)
• on Sydney Goodsir Smith's Figs and Thistles (review)
• Marguerite Duras: "On George [sic] Bataille" (essay)
• Michael McClure: "The Flower of Politics" (poetry)
• Morley Jamieson: "Madame X" (prose)
• John Wheatcroft:
• "To My Lady of Great Expectations" (poetry)
• "Beethoven" (poetry)
• Iain Crichton Smith: 
• "Beyond the Emblems" (poetry)
• "For Angus Macleod" (poetry)
• Alain Robbe-Grillet: "A Fresh Start for Fiction" (essay)
• Paul Williams: 
• "Attitude" (poetry)
• on Michael McClure's Hymns to St. Geryon and Other Poems and on Gary Snyder's Riprap (review)
• Ian Finlay: "Orkney Interior" (poetry)
• Philip Whalen: "With Compliments" (poetry)
• John Grant: "On the Dot" (prose)
• Michel Butor: "Les Paradis Artificiels" (essay, translated by Josephine Pagella)
• Allen Ginsberg: "Kaddish" (poetry)
• Edwin Morgan: "Jean Genet: A Life and its Legend" (essay)
• Charles Olson: "December 5, 1959" (poetry)
• Robin Nisbet: 
• on William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch (review)
• on Gavin de Beer's The Sciences Were Never at War (review)
• shorter book reviews
• Joycelyne Collins: on Light Blue, Dark Blue: An Anthology of Recent Writing from Oxford and Cambridge Universities (review)
• Richard Findlay: 
• on Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart's Giants Cast Long Shadows (review)
• on Ezra Pound's Thrones: 96-109 de los cantos (review)
• John Paul Godwin: on Lionel Daiches' Russians at Law (review)
• Peter Wallace: on Ted Hughes' Lupercal (review)
• Patrick Richard: on the Poets Reading series, on Allen Ginberg's Howl and Other Poems, on Poetry for the Beat Generation by Jack Kerouac and Steve Allen, and on San Francisco Poets (review)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Alex Neish
• Publisher: Alex Neish
• Editorial Advisors: Edward Boyd, George Todd, Sydney Harrison
• Illustrations: Bill MacArthur
• Cover: J. Wilson, Eleanor Maiden
• Printing: Macdonald Printers, Edinburgh