Poetry London / Apple Magazine, Issue 2, 1982

This issue includes "Deconstruction of the Countdown: A Space Age Mythology" by Theater of All Possibilities and William S. Burroughs, pp. 86-93. This is -- in part -- an excerpt of his address at the Planet Earth Conference in 1980. 

Published in London, England by Poetry London in 1982.

This copy includes the flexi-disc by Robin Williamson.

Bibliographic Information:

• Shoaf III.327
• Not in Schottlaender
• Raven 19820000PLON.0.2, b18

Selected Contents:

• Lawrence Durrell: "From The Elephant's Back" (essay)
• George Barker:
• drawing
• "For Gascoyne's 65th Birthday" (poetry)
• Erwin Castillo:
• "Tiradores de Muerte" (poetry)
• "A Landscape for the Bride" (poetry)
• "Kung 'di Man" (poetry)
• Benoy Chakraborty: "Beauregard" (poetry)
• Dick Davis: "Reading" (poetry)
• Richard Eberhart:
• "Grandson" (poetry)
• "The Hop-Toad" (poetry)
• G. S. Fraser:
• "Love Poem" (poetry)
• "Adam and Eve" (poetry)
• "A Lover's Quarrel" (poetry)
• Rivka Fried:
• "Israel: A Betrayal" (poetry)
• "New Jerusalem" (poetry)
• "Roots (Mediterranean Revisited)" (poetry)
• "In Memory of the Old Man" (poetry)
• Angie Gilligan:
• "Returning from War" (poetry)
• "Bathsheba" (poetry)
• John Piper: illustration
• Bryan Guinness: "Hands" (poetry)
• John Heath-Stubbs: "Poem" (poetry)
• Mike Jenkins: "Night Swims Slowly" (poetry)
• Elizabeth Jennings: "Neutral" (poetry)
• Peter Johnson:
• "George Stubbs" (poetry)
• "For an Old Man Dying in Hospital" (poetry)
• Keith Jones:
• "The Seer" (poetry)
• "Force" (poetry)
• Gravel Lindop: "Rain on Rydal Water" (poetry)
• Christopher Logue: "The Aardvark" (poetry)
• Jean McVean: "Glen of Graceful, Pearl-Like High-Bred Women" (poetry)
• Patrick Hayman: drawing
• Nicholas Moore:
• "Nodding on the Stroombious" (poetry)
• "The Passionate Years" (poetry)
• "Graham Sutherland" (poetry)
• "Philip Larkin" (poetry)
• Iris Murdoch:
• "Agamemnon Class 1939" (poetry)
• "John Sees a Stork at Zamorra" (poetry)
• Barbara Norman: "Gorilla" (poetry)
• Maeve Gilmore: painting
• Brian Patten:
• "In the Bed's Shape Her Shape is Forgotten" (poetry)
• "The Mule's Favourite Dream" (poetry)
• "On Time for Once" (poetry)
• Peter Porter:
• "Little Harmonic Labyrinth" (poetry)
• "Preparedness Is All" (poetry)
• Kathleen Raine:
• "The Oracle in the Heart" (poetry)
• "Campanula" (poetry)
• Jeremy Reed: "For Auction" (poetry)
• Peter Riley: "Kings Field" (poetry)
• Victoria Rothschild: "Waterloo" (poetry)
• Francis Scarfe: "Testament" (poetry)
• Starry Schor: "The Crown o' the Earth Doth Melt" (poetry)
• Alan Sillitoe: "Fishes" (poetry)
• Iain Sinclair: "Where Stevenson, Sleeping" (poetry)
• C. H. Sisson: "The Time of the Year" (poetry)
• Stephen Spender:
• "From My Diary" (poetry)
• "Dog Rose" (poetry)
• David Sweetman: "Memorials" (poetry)
• Cole Swensen:
• "Café" (poetry)
• "Face" (poetry)
• "The Distance" (poetry)
• R. S. Thomas:
• "A Poet" (poetry)
• "Definitions" (poetry)
• Hugo Williams: "The Ribbon" (poetry)
• Peter Levi: "Durrell" (review of Collected Poems 1931-1974 by Lawrence Durrell)
• Stephen Romer: "On the Threshold of Language" (review of Collected Poems 1942-1977 by W. S. Graham)
• Peter Orr: "David Jones: Maker of Signs" (combined review)
• David Gascoyne: "Gascoyne's Choice" (review of Bleecker Street by Jeremy Reed)
• Peter Scupham: "Grave Weight, and the Singing Voice" (combined review)
• Bob Cobbing: "Flute Totems" (painting)
• Henri Michaux: "Telegram from Dakar" (poetry, translated by Geoff Thompson)
• Robin Williamson:
• "Song of Mabon" (lyrics)
• "Song of Mabon" (flexi-disc)
• John Cooper-Clarke: "Salome Malony" (poetry)
• Tom Pickard: "Letter to Joanna" (poetry)
• Ian MacCallum: "Cowboy Diary" (poetry)
• Matthew Sweeney: "A Shot in the Dark" (poetry)
• Theater of All Possibilities and William Burroughs: "Deconstruction of the Countdown: A Space Age Mythology" (script)
• John Piper: cover art
• Patrick Hayman: "Summer Lovers, Like Mice" (poetry, back cover art)

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Tambimuttu
• Associate Editors: Jane Williams, Myfanwy Piper, Kathelin Hoffman, Harry Smith
• Managing Editor: Kathleen Arden Brown