New Departures, Issues 7/8 and 10/11, 1975

Burroughs contributes “The Evening News”, pp. 120-121, as well as a letter.

A photo of Burroughs by Jack Kerouac appears on the front cover, in a cap, top row.

Published in London, England, by New Departures in 1975.

This copy was acquired from Philip Smith, Bookseller (Berkeley, CA.).

Bibliographic Information:

• Shoaf III.227
• Schottlaender v4.C388
• Raven 19750000NDEP.0.7, b11

Selected Contents:

• David Hockney: 
• "Portrait of Yves Marie Reading" (drawing)
• "Picasso 1917 and 1973" (drawing)
• "Hotel de Nice, Paris" (drawing)
• "Cubistic Study of Heads" (drawing)
• "Simplified Faces" (drawing, photograph)
• Michael Horovitz: 
• editorial (with a partial interview between Allen Ginsberg and Eric Marcuse)
• "Calling all Poetry Reading Organisers" (news)
• "Calling all Subscribers" (essay)
• "Foreword: on the Provenance of this issue: Brave New Departures" (essay)
• "Editorial: of Absent Friends" (essay, poetry)
• "Animal ('soup of time')" (poetry)
• "Blank O'Clock Blues" (poetry)
• "Highland Rhapsody" (poetry)
• Ron Sandford: drawings
• Kenneth Patchen: 
• "from the Love Poems" (poetry)
• "Now, When I Get Back Here" (art)
• Blake: "Dedication" (poetry)
• Jonathan Williams: "from  Funerary Ode for Charles Olson" (poetry)
• Ezra Pound: "from Canto LXXXI" (poetry)
• R. B. Kitaj: 
• "Charles Olson" (art)
• "Ezra Pound II" (art)
• Jack Kerouac: "Letter-poem" (poetry)
• Barry Fantoni: "Picasso" (painting)
• Mark Hyatt: 
• collage
• "Looking Back" (poetry)
• "in Cornwall" (poetry)
• "Border Line" (poetry)
• "The Song of a Madman" (poetry)
• "Blocked" (poetry)
• "Loverman" (poetry)
• "Down and Out" (poetry)
• "Headache" (poetry)
• "Love Me Through Your Mind" (poetry)
• "The Head of the Eye" (poetry)
• "O Poem" (poetry)
• Peter Kiddle: "that water, these words (for Stevie Smith)" (poetry)
• Christopher Logue: 
• "A prayer to accompany John Berryman on his way" (poetry)
• "To ---- The General" (poetry)
• Samuel Beckett: "something there" (poetry)
• Michael Hamburger: 
• "Telephone Poem" (poetry)
• "Big Deal" (poetry)
• Ted Hughes: 
• "Beware of the Stars" (poetry)
• "The Lamentable History of The Human Calf" (poetry)
• Robert Creeley: "from His Idea" (poetry)
• Libby Houston: 
• "The House" (poetry)
• "Saga" (poetry)
• Patrick Waites: 
• "Song of the Unfaithful Husband" (poetry)
• "Two Cumberland Sonnets" (poetry)
• "Song for St. Stephen's Morn" (poetry)
• "Three from the Shack" (poetry)
• Loretta Schwartz: 
• "Academic Questions" (poetry)
• "Fairy Tales" (poetry)
• Lee Harwood: "1930s' Photo" (prose)
• Michael Shayer: 
• "Humiliation" (prose)
• "Song from an Historical Play" (poetry)
• John Furnival: drawing
• John Arden: "The purpose of Armies..." (essay)
  
• Ivor Cutler: 
• "My Enterprising Limb" (poetry)
• "Eg." (poetry, drawing)
• Roger McGough: "Alf" (poetry)
• Bob Godfrey: drawing
• Adrian Mitchell: "A Tourist Guide to England" (prose)
• Allen Ginsberg: 
• "Yes and it's hopeless" (poetry)
• "Under the world there's a lot of ass, a lot of cunt" (poetry)
• "Returning to the Country for a Brief Visit" (poetry)
• Michael McClure: 
• "In the Planetarium" (poetry)
• "Little Thibetan Poem" (poetry)
• Rudy Bantista: 
• "I Am a Wolf" (poetry)
• "Celibration [sic] Song" (poetry)
• Rob Sandford: illustration
• Herbert Lomas: "In spite of everything most of the middle classes never get hurt" (poetry)
• Richard Hamilton: "Kent State" (photograph)
• Lyn Lifshin: 
• "They" (poetry)
• "Their Dreams of Water Buffalo and Fire" (poetry)
• "How It Happened" (poetry)
• Thom Gunn: "The Bath House" (poetry)
• Jack Hirschman: "You awoke in a flash..." (poetry)
• Frances Horovitz: 
• "child in cornwall" (poetry)
• "last light withdraws over the sloping field..." (poetry)
• "blaze blaze summer moon..." (poetry)
• "Buzzard" (poetry)
• "Is this where people are buried?..." (poetry)
• Lucinda Mackay: painting
• Pete Brown: 
• "I will bring you a necklace of seaweed..." (poetry)
• "strike a match..." (poetry)
• "from Scenes from Science Fiction" (poetry)
• "Dzbairgdenughe" (poetry)
• "Untitled" (poetry)
• Heathcote Williams: "What's gonna happen when we get to the bone orchard?..." (poetry)
• Tom McGrath: 
• "for seventeen years..." (poetry)
• "Invented Haiku" (poetry)
• "'There was that time...'" (poetry)
• Roger Jones: "Sleepy" (poetry)
• Calvin Hernton: 
• "Poem" (poetry)
• "Drunk Poet in Search of Love" (poetry)
• "Blues Spiritual" (poetry)
• "Some Folks I Know" (poetry)
• "Fall Down" (poetry)
• Felix de Mendelssohn: "Poem for Brecht" (poetry)
• Tom Pickard: "In streets of prefabs..." (poetry)
• Colin Self: 
• "Suburban Dream House" (painting)
• painting
• Gael Turnbull: "A Lamb" (poetry)
• Spike Hawkins: "from the log books" (poetry)
• Jeff Nuttall: 
• "The Towers" (prose)
• "The Bird of Light" (drawing)
• "Some Good Pie" (drawing)
• Chris Torrance: 
• "Midsummer Madness" (poetry)
• "Blonde Waves" (poetry)
• Michael McInnerney: drawing
• Adrian Henri: "Metropolis" (poetry, drawing)
• Paul Citroen: "Metropolis" (collage)
• Tom Raworth: 
• "Be in the room but one a week Tuesday..." (poetry)
• "from Your Slip's Showing" (poetry)
• "The Friendly Actor Smiles" (poetry)
• "Hearing" (poetry)
• William Burroughs:
• "The Evening News" (prose/poetry)
• letter to Michael Horovitz
• Erró: painting
• Sinclair Beiles and Annie Rooney: "Telegram from San Francisco" (poetry)
• Ron Geesin: "I Dream of Life" (prose)
• Cressida Lindsay: "I think I know..." (poetry)
• Asa Benveniste: 
• "A Passing Description" (poetry)
• "At the Court of the Yellow Emperor" (poetry)
• Ted Milton: "Journal of an Excursion to the Front Door" (poetry)
• John Cage: "in ten Minutes..." (poetry)
• William McNaughton: "Kyoto Poem" (poetry)
• Bob Cobbing: 
• "kyoto to tokyo – a journey" (concrete poetry)
• "Grouphon" (concrete poetry)
• Stefan Themerson:
• "Life-Time" (concrete poetry)
• "When and Where" (poetry)
• Franciszka Themerson: drawings
• Gregory Corso: "Truth is Eternity..." (poetry)
• Peter Lloyd-Jones: photograph
• Paul Kaplan: painting
• Ronald Laing: "Fables" (poetry)
• Dom Silvester Houédard: 
• "notes on a simple mandala" (poetry)
• "observatory" (concrete poetry/letter/essay)
• "alphabetical mandala of the five english directions" (concrete poetry)
• Alison Swan: "Pencil" (drawings)
• Furnival: art
• Ernst Jandl: "fritzi & the broom: a play" (script)
• Pat Waites: "The Broom" (poetry)
• Spike Hawkins: "Whitehall Blunder" (poetry)
• John Michell: "The World of Phenomena" (drawing)
• Paul Ableman: "That Was An Excellent Dinner" (script)
• Brian Patten: 
• "Party-goers" (poetry)
• A Bird's Brain View of Power" (poetry)
• "The Right Mask" (poetry)
• Anselm Hollo: "New Choctaw Nation" (poetry)
• Mac Dean: drawings
• Tom Phillips: "Page from A Humument" (art/poetry)
• Anna Lovell: "All Wuestions Must Be Answered" (art)
• Earle Birney: "Loon" (poetry)
• Geoffrey Hazard: "The Sleeping Fool" (poetry)
• Cecil Collins: "The Sleeping Fool" (painting)
• Kathleen Raine: 
• "Secret companion..." (poetry)
• "What are those golden builders doing?" (poetry)
• "Harvest of learning I have reaped..." (poetry)
• Unnamed Navajo poet: "Night Way" (poetry)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Michael Horovitz