Beat Scene, Issue 72, Spring 2014

There are minor mentions of William S. Burroughs in “Iain Sinclair: American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light”, pp. 15-18. 

A review by Colin Cooper of Taking Shots: The Photography of William S. Burroughs, edited by Patricia Allmer and John Sears, is at page 56, with a photograph of Kerouac by Burroughs.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in Spring of 2014.

This copy includes a Charles Bukowski broadside of “The Laughing Heart", and was acquired from Jeffrey Weinberg of Water Row Books (Massachusetts, US).

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Schottlaender
• Raven 20140400BSCE.0.72.

Selected Contents: 

• Charles Bukowski: "The Laughing Heart" (poetry, broadside)
• Kevin Ring: 
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Iain Sinclair: American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light" (essay/review)
• "Robert LaVigne" (memorial)
• review of The Snake Sez Tesssss by Ruth Weiss
• "Charles Bukowski's Penguin" (essay)
• review of Sustain Me in Despair by Elise Cowen
• review of Mimeo Mimeo, issue 7 ("The Lewis Warsh Issue")
• review of Getting Naked with Harry Crews: Interviews, edited by Erik Bledsoe
• Jackson Ellis and Diane di Prima: "Diane di Prima's Liberation News Service" (interview)
• Anne Waldman: "Bob Dylan and the Beats: Magpie Poetics, An Investigation and Memoir" (essay)
• Unstated: "Jack Kerouac's The Haunted Life... a Publisher's Blurb" (quote)
• Marc Olmsted: "Three Year Retreat & 2 Unpublished Ginsberg Poems" (essay, poetry)
• Kevin Ring and Jim Burns: "Jim Burns: From the Outposts" (interview)
• Iain Sinclair: photograph
• Colin Cooper: 
• review of Taking Shots: The Photography of William S. Burroughs, edited by Patricia Allmer and John Sears
• review of Beneath a Single Moon: Buddhism in Contemporary American Poetry, edited by Kent Johnson and Craig Paulenich 
• Olive Lettera: review of Mystic Chemist: The Life of Albert Hoffman and His Discovery of LSD by Dieter Hagenbuch and Lucius Werthmuller
• Brian Dalton:
• review of Asphaltwirbel by Michael McClure
• review of Ghost Tantras by Michael McClure
• review of Bohemians, Beats and Blues People by Jim Burns
• Sophia Nitrate:
• review of Test Centre, no. 4
• review of Yearbook of the Charles Bukowski Society
• Dawn Swoop: review of The Trickster in Ginsberg: A Critical Reading by Katherine Campbell Mead-Brewer

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Deputy Editor: Jim Burns
• Beat Scene in America: R. Miller
• Layout: Scarlet Letters
• Research: Pauline Reeves, Erin Ring