New Departures, Issue 1, Summer 1959

Burroughs contributes “Two Scenes": "1: The Exterminator Does a Good Job” and “2: Coke Bugs”, pp. 25-28.

Published in London, England by New Departures in Summer of 1959.

This copy was formerly in the collection of Darin Scope.

Bibliographic Information:

• M&M C8
• Shoaf III.7
• Schottlaender v4.C11
• Raven 19590700NDEP.0.1, b9

Contents:

• David Sladen: "Credo" (essay/editorial)
• Piero Heliczer: "Paris – A Scenario for a Silent Movie" (poetry)
• John McGrath: "Tell Me, Tell Me" (script)
• J. B. Spink: "Parting" (poetry)
• Charles Hamblett: "Six Songs for a Mad Madonna" (poetry)
• William Burroughs: "Two Scenes":
• "1: The Exterminator Does a Good Job"
• "2: Coke Bugs"
• David Sladen: "Improvisation No. 43 (the financial)" (poetry)
• Michael Horovitz: "How Many Fingers? – Too Many Fingers" (prose/poetry)
• Stevie Smith: 
• "Fairy Story" (poetry)
• "A Voice From the Tomb" (poetry)
• "Words" (poetry)
• Kurt Schwitters: 
• "Many Angles" (combine art)
• "priimiitittii" (poetry)
• "Merzmosiak" (art)
• collage
• "Air and Wire Sculpture" (art)
• Stefan Themerson: 
• "shooting at doves..." (poetry)
• "Elegy in a London Bus" (prose)
• "The Bone in the Throat" (script)
• unstated: photographs
• John Fuller: "Two Poems" (poetry)
• Bernard Kops: "Skyman" (poetry)
• Cornelius Cardew: 
• "Piano Piece" (score)
• "Musical Space" (essay)
• Patrick Bowles: "Nocturne" (poetry)
• Victor Pasmore: "Construction" (art/essay)
• Alan Brownjohn: 
• "Marginalia" (poetry)
• "A Day at Work" (poetry)
• Dennis Keene: 
• "Not Quite a Song" (poetry)
• "Formal Problem" (poetry)
• "In the Gothic Manner" (poetry)
• "An Important Funeral" (poetry)
• Peter Ferguson: "Templates of Winter" (prose)
• Samuel Beckett: "Act Without Words 2" (play)
• Philip O'Connor: "Perspectives" (essay)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Michael Horovitz, David Sladen
• Design: Anna Lovell