Bananas, Issue 17, Autumn 1979

Burroughs contributes an excerpt from Ah Pook Is Here, pp. 14-17.

Published by London, England by Spotlight Publications Ltd. in Autumn of 1979.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Shoaf III.295
• Schottlaender v4.C459, v5.C472
• Raven 19791000BANA.0.17

Contents:

• Abigail Mozley and Leonie Rushforth: editorial
• Mervyn Franklyn: photograph
• Kim Flintcroft: cover photograph
• Abigail Mozley and Peter Redgrove: interview
• William S. Burroughs: excerpt from Ah Pook Is Here (prose)
• David Sweetman:
• "Chairpersons" (poetry)
• "Two Young Men, a December Train" (poetry)
• Ken Abustani:
• "Her Eyes Were Like Eyes" (poetry)
• "He Spoke Like a Jackdaw" (poetry)
• Diane Hendry: "The Spit Healer" (prose)
• Raymond Queneau: "Excerpt from Exercises in Style" (prose)
• Ian Burton:
• "Laocoon" (poetry)
• "Clovelly Beach" (poetry)
• "Play (for Michael Simpson)" (poetry)
• Bill Scammell:
• "Beware Pictures" (poetry)
• "Moving" (poetry)
• Ralph Steadman: illustration
• David Goldblatt: "Telephone Lines" (prose)
• Maureen Beanland:
• "Townee in a Tree" (poetry)
• "They're Knocking Down the Odeon" (poetry)
• Marilyn Hacker: "La Fontaine de Vaucluse" (poetry)
• Loenie Rushforth and Alan Sillitoe: interview
• Robin Leanse: "To a Moroccan Girl" (poetry)
• Gavin Ewart: "Mr. W. S." (poetry)
• David Holbrook:
• "Not Today Darling" (poetry)
• "'Demolish Me, That I May Forget My Being!'" (poetry)
• Peter Redgrove: "The Sleep of the Great Hypnotist" (prose)
• Martin Booth:
• "Nantucket Cargo Dream" (poetry)
• "Over the Naugatak" (poetry)
• Tony Curtis:
• "Riverside Church" (poetry)
• "Into August" (essay)
• Jim Campbell: "The Prostitutes' Night with the Firing Squad" (poetry)
• James Campbell:
• review of The Hottest Night of the Century by Glenda Adams
• review of Half the Sky: An Introduction to Women's Studies
• review of Peterloo Anthology I, edited by Harry Chambers
• review of Soul on Fire by Eldridge Cleaver
• "Scotland" (essay)
• Andy Scott: "H for Harry" (prose)
• Catherine Lucy Czerkawska: "Children Playing" (poetry)
• Tom Pow: "Baleshare: North Uist" (poetry)
• Brian McCabe: "The Imaginary Thief" (poetry)
• Iain Crichton Smith: "Ill, dying" (poetry)
• Lindsay Levy: "Postcard from a Long Way Away" (poetry)
• Li Shang Yin: "The Exquisite Instrument" (poetry, translated by Ron Butlin)
• John Rice:
• "South East" (essay)
• "Greenwich Park" (poetry)
• Martyn A. Ford: "Stone" (prose)
• Brian Jones:
• "On a Field of Snow" (poetry)
• "The Winter Harvesters" (poetry)
• "An Absence of Elms" (poetry)
• Hubert Moore: "In the Early Hours" (poetry)
• Ida Weidman: "Peach" (poetry)
• Mike Jenkins: "Chartist Meeting" (poetry)
• Jeremy Hooker:
• "Curlew" (poetry)
• "Near Warsash" (poetry)
• Ruth Bidgood: "A Slight Stroke" (poetry)
• Robert Minhinnick: "Gale Warning" (poetry)

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Abigail Mozley
• Administration: Leonie Rushforth
• Associate Editors: Elaine Feinstein, Leonie Rushforth, Angela Carter
• Managing Editor: Mike Von Joel
• Printing: Mapledon Press Ltd.