Beat Scene, Issue 74, Late Summer 2014

Cover photograph of Burroughs at 100 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, 1966. Ken Brooks contributes "How I Met Old Bull Lee", pp. 54-55, a recollection of meeting Burroughs at Bill Butler's Unicorn Bookshop.

At page 20 there is a quote from William S. Burroughs on London in the article "The Dialectics of Libreration."

At page 35 there is additionally "Blame These 4 Men for the Beatnik Horror", an article from the August 7th 1960 edition of The People, an British newspaper which briefly mentions Burroughs.

Burroughs is also mentioned in the essay "Jabberwock & Sidewalk" by Jim Burns, on two important early Scottish Burroughs-including periodicals.

The inside rear cover has another photograph of Burroughs at 100 Cheyne Walk.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press near September 2014.

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 20140900BSCE.0.74

Contents:

• Kevin Ring:
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Fantasia on a Theme of Bukowski" (essay)
• "Jack Kerouac in England" (essay)
• "Michael McClure at The Royal Court" (essay
• Pauline Reeves:
• "Allen Ginsberg – London 1965: Now We Know How Many Poets It Takes to Fill the Albert Hall" (essay)
• "Tom Clark: The Paris Review: The Cambridge and Essex Years" (essay)
• Michael Kearns:
• "February 1958 – John Clellon Holmes in England" (essay)
• "Richard Brautigan's Album: Made in England" (essay)
• Brian Dalton: "The Dialectics of Liberation" (essay)
• Iain Sinclair:
• photographs
• "The Deceased Are the Travellers [sic] Among Us" (essay)
• William S. Burroughs: quote
• Heathcote Williams: "The Prince of Amsterdam" (poetry)
• Jim Burns:
• "His Own Man" (on Gary Snyder, from Anarchy, issue 32, 1963)
• "Migrant Press" (essay)
• "Jabberwock & Sidewalk" (essay)
• "Blame These 4 Men for the Beatnik Horror: The Cult of Despair Is Driving Teenagers to Violence" (essay from The People, August 7 1960)
• Colin Cooper:
• "Allen Ginsberg: An Acid Visitation in 1967" (essay)
• "Kenneth Rexroth: Beaten in London, 1959" (essay)
• Eric Jacobs: "Letters from America: Four English Small Presses" (essay)
• Ian Brinton: photograph
• Tom Raworth: "Tom Raworth & Allen Ginsberg" (memoir)
• Robert Creeley: "Letter to Tom Raworth" (letter)
• Ken Brooks: "How I Met Old Bull Lee" (memoir on Burroughs)

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Deputy Editor: Jim Burns
• Beat Scene in America: Richard Miller
• Research Assistants: Pauline Reeves, Erin Ring
• Layout: Scarlet Letters