Beat Scene, Issue 102, Winter [December] 2021

Burroughs mentions throughout. 

At pages 39-41 is "Bill and Tony", a reprint of a Tony Rayns interview/feature on Antony Balch (and Burroughs) from Cinema Rising, Issue 1, 1972 [this is stated as from Cinema File, which is incorrect]. 

Joseph Darlington contributes "William Burroughs and Anthony Burgess" at pages 42-46. 

Eric Jacobs contributes "William and Francis", an essay about Burroughs' visit to see Francis Bacon in London, 1982, at pages 47-48.  

At pages 49 is a reproduced letter to Jim Pennington from William S. Burroughs about Roy Pennington's Mayfair Acadamy [sic] Series More or Less.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in late 2021.

This copy was acquired from Third Mind Books (Ann Arbor, Michigan).

Bibliographic Information: 

• 20211200BSCE.0.102

Selected Contents: 

• Kevin Ring: 
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Robert Creeley and Calder & Boyars" (essay)
• "Kenneth Rexroth: An American in Britain – 1949" (essay)
• "Antony Balch" (essay)
• review of Dick McBride's Cometh with Clouds (Memory: Allen Ginsberg)
• Unknown interviewer and Allen Ginsberg: "Allen Ginsberg, Scotland 1973" (interview)
• Roger Bygott: "Following a Squiggle: Allen Ginsberg's Reading in Manchester" (essay)
• Eric Jacobs: 
• "Jack and Frank and the Town and the City" (essay)
• "William and Francis" (essay)
• Mike Woolf: "Jack Kerouac – A Small-Town Conservative Disguised as a Rebel" (essay)
• Colman Tracy: review of The First Third by Neal Cassady
• Jom Burns: "A Neglected Poet and a Forgotten Bookseller: Laura Ulewicz and Bernard Stone" (essay)
• Colin Cooper: 
• "Charles Bukowski and his English Breakthrough" (essay)
• "Lawrence Ferlinghetti in London" (essay)
• Brian Dalton: "Two Beat Poets in London, 1970" (essay on Creeley and Brautigan)
• Michael Kearns: "Tom Clark in London with Sylvia" (essay)
• Tony Rayns, Antony Balch, et al: "Bill and Tony" (essay/interview)
• Joseph Darlington: "William Burroughs and Anthony Burgess" (essay)
• William S. Burroughs and Jim Pennington: "William Burroughs: A London Letter" (letter)
• Iain Sinclair: "Ed Dorn in England" (essay)
• Pauline Reeves: "Gregory Corso: Three Months in London, 1961" (essay)
• Sophia Nitrate: "Janine Pommy Vega Goes West" (essay)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Deputy Editor: Jim Burns
• Research: Erin Ring, Pauline Reeves
• Layout: Scarlet Letters
• Beat Scene in the USA: Richard Miller