Beat Scene, Issue 47, Spring 2005

Small mentions of Burroughs in Jim Burns' essay on "Beats in Britain", pp. 32-33. 

In "Beats & Co." compiled by Pauline Reeves, p. 41,  is news of the release of The Yage Letters Redux, the second volume of Burroughs' letters, and "The Peru Notebooks" (which was released as Everything Lost). 

A review by Dawn Swoop of Headpress, Issue 25 – which includes a section on Burroughs – is at page 55. 

A review by Dawn Swoop of the CD set First Thought Best Thought: William S. Burroughs, Diane di Prima, Anne Waldman & Allen Ginsberg is at page 56.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in Spring of 2005.

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

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5)
• Raven 20050400BSCE.0.47

Selected Contents: 

• Kevin Ring: 
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Jack Kerouac's Departed Angels" (review of Jack Kerouac: Departed Angels, The Lost Paintings, text by Ed Adler)
• review of Visceral Bukowski by Ben Pleasants
• "Bernard Stone & the Turret Bookshop" (essay)
• review of Kafka Was the Rage by Anatole Broyard
• review of Rebel Roar: The Sound of Michael McClure
• review of Bukowski Reads His Poetry
• review of Americus, Book 1 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• review of Live at the Chicago Poetry Center by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• review of I Like Your Eyes Liberty by Terry Riley and Michael McClure
• review of Slouching Towards Nirvana by Charles Bukowski
• review of Continuous Flame: A Tribute to Philip Whalen, edited by Michael Rothenberg and Suzi Winson
• review of Poetry Readings in the Cellar by Kenneth Rexroth and Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• review of Brautigan, Richard: A Pilgrimage, August 1982 by David Curran
• Stephen D. Edington: "The Last Man Standing: Al Hinkle Tells His Story" (essay)
• Al Hinkle: photographs
• letters
• Jim Burns: "Bird Lives!"(essay)
• Chris Felver: photographs
• John Tytell and Ron Whitehead: "Calling the Toads: The Antinomian Fire this Time" (essay)
• Sophie Villiers: "The Never Ending Story of Robert Frank" (essay)
• Trevor Carolan: "Face to Face with Jim Koller" (essay)
• Zoe Brown: photographs
• John W. Doss: photograph
• Maggie Brown: photograph
• Jim Burns: "Beats in Britain" (essay)
• Patrick Fenton: "The Jack I Knew: an interview with Maria Livornese Halpern" (interview)
• Jed Birmingham and David Roche: "A Beat Hotel on Main Street: Two Days at Kerouac Fest 2004" (essay)
• Barry Gifford: "B. Traven: The Man Who Never Forgot" (essay)
• Pauline Reeves: "Beats & Co." (news)
• Kevin Ring and Ben Pleasants: "Visceral Bukowski" (interview)
• Jay Jeff Jones: "Never Enough Everything: Hunter Stockton Thompson" (memorial)
• Brian Dalton: 
• "Lucien Carr" (memorial)
• "Don Allen" (memorial)
• Ann Charters: photograph
• Allen Ginsberg: photograph
• Giuseppe Moretti: "Gary Snyder: Touring Italy and Its Watersheds" (essay, photographs)
• Michael Hudson: 
• review of The Rolling Thunder Logbook by Sam Shepard
• review of Mineshaft, issue 14
• Sophia Nitrate: review of The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art by Mark Rothko
• Brian Dalton: 
• review of Thirsting for Peace by Ed Sanders
• review of Bukowski: Born Into This – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
• review of Tiny Teeth: The Wormwood Review Poems by Ann Menebroker
• review of Tales of Beatnik Glory by Ed Sanders
• Colin Cooper: 
• review of Wyoming by Barry Gifford
• "Shivastan Go Wild" (combined review)
• review of Thank You Masked Man by Lenny Bruce
• review of The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
• review of the recording of Wichita Vortex Sutra by Allen Ginsberg
• Dawn Swoop: 
• review of Headpress, Issue 25
• review of Tears in the Fence, Issue 39, Autumn 2004
• review of the CD set First Thought Best Thought: William S. Burroughs, Diane di Prima, Anne Waldman & Allen Ginsberg
• review of Leaning Against Time by Neeli Cherkovski

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Deputy Editor: Jim Burns
• Research: Pauline Reeves
• Layout: Scarlett Letters