Beat Scene, Issue 112, Winter/Spring 2025

This issue contains “Riding the Energy Train with William Burroughs” by Lem Coley, p. 27.

This issue also contains “William Burroughs and Allen Deloach [sic]: A Conversation”, pp. 28-31, a conversation earlier published in Street Magazine, Volume 2, Number 4, Issue 8, 1978.

At pages 54-55 is a review by Kevin Ring of Oliver Harris’ One Shot: A Beat Generation Mystery, which explores the history of the only known photograph with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs together (with Hal Chase as well).

Pauline Reeves contributes “William Burroughs in London, Film Season Exhibit”, a review of William Burroughs: Films & Talks at The October Gallery.

There are additional mentions of Burroughs in Kevin Ring’s “So Much for Kulchur”, pp. 15-17, on issue 3 of Kulchur, and in R. J. Riley’s “The Book of Earthbound Ghosts: Terry Wilson’s Dreams of Green Base”, pp. 23-26.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in early 2025.

This copy was acquired directly from the publisher.

Bibliographic Information:

• Raven 20250100BSCE.0.112

Selected Contents:

• Kevin Ring:
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Jack Kerouac's Ray Smith: A Novel in the Making?" (essay)
• "So Much for Kulchur" (essay)
• review of One Shot: A Best Generation Mystery by Oliver Harris
• review of City Lights Pocket Poet Series 2005-2025 edited by Donald Heneghan
• review of O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder, a film by Colin Still
• Chris Felver and Carolyn Cassady: "Dear Carolyn: Thank God for Meeting You Again in Paris" (interview)
• Chris Felver: photographs
• Charles Shuttleworth: "Jack Kerouac: Dharma Fragments (1954)" (excerpt from The Buddhist Years)
• Stephen Ronan and John Montgomery: "A Conversation with John Montgomery, Christmas Day, 1990 Berkeley, California" (interview)
• Jim Burns: "Fielding Dawson" (essay)
• Lois Sorrells: letter to Beat Scene
• R. J. Riley: "The Book of Earthbound Ghosts: Terry Wilson's Dreams of Green Base" (essay)
• Lem Coley: "Riding the Energy Train with William Burroughs" (essay)
• Allen De Loach and William S. Burroughs: "William Burroughs and Allen Deloach [sic]: A Conversation" (interview)
• Gordon Ball: photograph
• Colin Cooper:
• "Gary Snyder, Robert Creeley, and Allen Ginsberg: The Berkeley Poetry Conference 1965" (essay)
• review of Shy of the Squirrel's Foot by Andy Martrich
• Joshua Bodwell: "Ok, My Man! Neeli Cherkovski's Editor Remembers the Poet and Biographer" (essay/memoir)
• San Cherry: photograph
• Michael Robert Gordon: "Charles Plymell: The Kanza Sage Will Be 90" (essay and interview)
• Jaoa Faustino: "Lionel Ziprin: Mystic Interjections" (essay)
• Kevin Ring and Persephone Abbott: "Mordechai from Monterey" (interview)
• Kevin Ring and Charles Shuttleworth: "Jack Kerouac: The Buddhist Years" (interview)
• Brian Dalton:
• review of Tendrel: A Meeting of Minds by Anne Waldman
• review of Evergreen Review: Dispatches from the Literary Underground: Covers & Essays 1957-1973 edited by Pat Thomas
• "Gerd Stern" (essay)
• Dawn Swoop: review of Allen Ginsberg: Material Wealth 1956-1996
• Pauline Reeves: "William Burroughs in London, Film Season Exhibit" (reivew)
• Sophia Nitrate: review of The Day & Night Book of Mardou Fox by Nisi Shawl
• Tom Swift:
• review of Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike
• review of Exiled Angel; A Study of the Work of Gregory Corso by Gregory Stephenson

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Deputy Editor: Jim Burns
• News & Research: Pauline Reeves, Erin Ring
• Layout; Scarlett Letters
• Post: M. Ring
• Beat Scene in America: Richard Miller