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 Wordworks 7

Editor: Michael Butterworth

Publisher: Michael Butterworth
(as Michael Butterworth Publications)
with David Britton

Associate Editor: J Jeff Jones
(Jay Jeffrey Jones)
Contributing Editor: Heathcote Williams

Art Editor/Design: David Britton

1976

B&W Illustrated

297mm x 210mm

Soft cover

56pp
Wordworks 7
  The perfect lead-up issue to The Savoy Book, with almost everything in it worthy of mention, including a retrospective of unsung English artist Jim Leon, a master black-and-white artist who comes on like the link between Blake and Giger, hipster raps by Lord Buckley, an abdication broadcast from the Albion Free State by Heathcote Williams and a rare interview with poet and playwrite Sinclair Beiles. Beiles was the editor at Olympia Press when the manuscript of The Naked Lunch was submitted for publication, and a collaborator with William Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Brion Gysin on the seminal book of cut-ups Minutes to Go (1960). An absolute must for all you Beatniks out there.

Cover by John Mottershead.
  Contents:

Fiction

  • Trevor Hoyle—'Conversation in a Darkened Room'
  • Terry Wilson—'Tangiers'
  • M S Winecoff & William Jones—'For Circle and Taste of Orange'
  • Roger Howard—'The First of May, All on the Street'
  • Giles Gordon—'Celebration'
  • Heathcote Williams—'The Abdication of Queen Elizabeth 2'
  • Elizabeth Rothwell—'The Return'

Poetry

  • Sinclair Beiles—'The Idiot's Voice (Poems by Sinclair Beiles)'
  • Kent Robert Mahan—'Poems'
  • J Jeff Jones—'Howl Now (A Space Radio Broadcast)'
  • M S Winecoff—'World in Water', 'Albino Vines'
  • Terry Gregory—'Poems'

Hip talk

  • Lord Buckley—'The Hip Missives': 'Hipsters Flipsters and Finger Poppin' Daddies' , 'The Nazz'

Non-fiction

  • Michael Butterworth—'Sinclair Beiles' (interview)
  • Jim Burns—'The Hip Messiah (Lord Buckley)'
  • Andy Ravensdale—book review:
    • 'A Universal History of Infamy' by Jorge Luis Borges
  • Michael Butterworth & J Jeff Jones—book and magazine reviews:
    • 'South London Mix' by David Miller
    • 'New Departures' Vols 7/8 & 10/ll

Art

  • John Mottershead
  • David Britton
  • Jim Leon—'A Retrospective Collection' (portfolio)
  • Bob Jenkins
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