Warwickshire, England: The Beat Scene Press, 1996. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage early 1996 number of the magazine-format literary journal published & edited by Kevin Ring in the UK features a lengthy interview of Ann Charters, pioneering biographer & editor of the works of Jack Kerouac; a long, comprehensive article by Kerouac biographer Gerald Nicosia on Jan Kerouac's disputes with her father's estate as controlled by his in-laws; a...... More
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Warwickshire, England: The Beat Scene Press, 1997. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage 1997 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features a lengthy section of tributes to Allen Ginsberg, who died that year, by Jim Burns, Michael McClure, Ring, Ron Whitehead & others. Also an interview with photographer Larry Keenan conducted by Ring, illustrated with images of some of Keenan's classic..... More
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Warwickshire, England: The Beat Scene Press, 1998. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features a lengthy article-tribute to the great Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, publisher & proprietor of the iconic City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco by Jim Burns; memorial tributes to Kathy Acker & Jack Micheline, both of whom died shortly before the publication of..... More
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Warwickshire, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2000. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage early 2000 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features excerpts from an interview with & a short memoir of Charles Bukowski by Italian journalists who made pilgrimages to the USA to meet with him, an article by Aaron Krumhansl on his bibliography of Bukowski, & more on the..... More
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Warwickshire, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2004. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage autumn 2004 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features a most informative article on playwright Jack Gelbert's adventures with the Living Theatre, founded by Julian Beck & Judith Malina (who recently passed away), by Jay Jeffrey Jones. Also an interview conducted by Ring with Allen Hibbard on his..... More
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Warwickshire, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2004. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This Summer 2004 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features an interview conducted by Ring with Greg Keeler on his friendship with Richard Brautigan, resulting in the memoir Waltzing with the Captain. Also a thoughtful essay on Allen Ginsberg by Vojo Sindolic, "Was Allen Ginsberg a Religious Poet?"; an interview..... More
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Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2005. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. In Issue No. 47 of Beat Scene Magazine, editor Kevin Ring delivers yet another distinguished installment of his long-running quarterly. Featured in this issue is an interview with Kerouac's close friend Al Hinkle; sections on Lucien Carr; "Gary Snyder in Italy," and an essay of paramount precision and scholarship by noted Beat scholar John Tytell & Ron Whitehead that caps..... More
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Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2006. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 50 holds a handful of gems from heavyweight pioneers of mid-century American poetry, including an interview of John Wieners, a rare remembrance of Jim Morrison by Michael McClure; one of Allen Ginsberg by Vojo Sindolic. Also featured is a look at Beatitude Magazine by Jim Burns and an informative interview of Diane di Prima. As new with..... More
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Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2007. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 52 is peppered with features on many familiar voices in the Beat canon such as Jack Kerouac and Michael McClure, but also spotlights lesser-known important figures such as Lenore Kandel and Wallace Berman. Also contained are biographical remembrances on William S. Burroughs Jr., the great author's talented but tragic only son, and Harold Norse, respected poet and..... More
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Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2007. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. In Beat Scene No. 54, Kyle Schlesinger kicks off the issue with a studious analysis of typography in the work of Robert Creeley. The essays span the sea-wide scope of Creeley's output in by way of thirteen pages that detail and illuminate the poet's product & process. Also featured are articles on poet Harold Norse, John Clellon Holmes, and Jack..... More
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Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2008. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Gracing Issue No. 55 of Kevin Ring's celebrated Beat Scene Magazine are interviews from poets Michael McClure and Philip Lamantia, an article on subversive genius Robert Crumb by the venerable poet/publisher Charles Plymell, comments on a new book on the poems of influential objectivist George Oppen, and an in in-depth glance at the poetic practice of Joanne Kyger comprise the..... More
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Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2010. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene Magazine No. 61 opens with an extensive, well-researched article on the time William S. Burroughs spent in Denmark in 1957 when visiting his close friend Kells Elvins, a fellow intellectual he had known since childhood. The time Burroughs spent in Denmark had a marked and notable influence on many of the passages Burroughs would soon unveil in his..... More
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Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, Summer 2012. First Printing. Staplebound. This recent number of the very significant Beat periodical published in the UK by Kevin Ring features an interview with William Hjortsberg, author of Jubilee Hitchhiker, the massive new biography of Richard Brautigan, along with a cover portrait of Brautigan also featured on the biography dust jacket. Also, an interview with Gordon Ball about his experiences on Allen Ginsberg's..... More
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Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, Winter 2012. First Printing. Staplebound. This number of Kevin Ring's journal is refulgent with fascinating & significant essays, interviews, memoirs & reviews centering on the core figures of the Beat Generation: An insightful essay on Allen Ginsberg & his creative ancestor/inspiration Walt Whitman by Ann Charters; an interview by publisher Kevin Ring concerning the real person behind Jack Kerouac's "The Mexican Girl" episode of..... More
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Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2012. First Printing. Staplebound. This is the twenty-fifth issue of Transit, "A little magazine of the Beat Generation" published in the UK by Kevin Ring's Beat Scene Press, "...a companion to my much bigger Beat Scene magazine." This issue includes a significant scholarly article on William S. Burroughs, Burroughs' Library: An Exercise in Biographical Minutiae by Tom Robinson. Also writings by/about Diane di Prima..... More
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Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, Autumn 2013. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The Autumn 2013 issue of the large magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK, as always devoted cover-to-cover to the Beat Generation. This issue features a very special bonus: A DVD of a filmed interview with writer Iain Sinclair, author of the recently published American Smoke, where he recounts his travels in the..... More
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Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, Summer 2014. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The Summer 2014 issue of the large magazine-format literary journal published by Kevin Ring in the UK, devoted as always to the Beat Generation. This number features fascinating, informative articles about John Wieners & other Boston poets; Robert Duncan & his associates; an account of William S. Burroughs' 1978 reading appearance in Amsterdam by fellow reader Eddie Woods;..... More
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Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2014. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the magazine-format literary journal published by Kevin Ring in the UK is a special issue devoted to the Beats in Britain. With great, rarely reproduced 1966 photographs of a dapper William S. Burroughs in London with his "brolly" (umbrella) including on front cover; articles by the late Ken Brooks about his meeting WSB at the legendary..... More
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Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2014. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the magazine-format literary journal published & edited by Kevin Ring in the UK features an article on the greatest bombshell of recent Beat history, the uncovering of Neal Cassady's legendary "Joan Anderson letter" to Jack Kerouac, by Jerry Cimino, the director of the Beat Museum in San Francisco. Also a lengthy memoir by the recently deceased..... More
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Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2014. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 79 springs out the gate with a truthful retelling of the events & circumstances surrounding the suppression of the Fall 1958 Chicago Review, and the subsequent editorial revolt that created the now-celebrated & canonized Big Table Magazine. Next we have poet Clark Coolidge on Jack Kerouac's "Old Angel Midnight," and shortly after Kaye McDonough provides us with..... More
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Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 80 begins with a remembrance by Susan Kay Anderson, former student of Ed Dorn, renowned and respected poet often associated with the Black Mountain school, about the time spent and lessons learned with this courageous, irreverent icon of alternative American Letters. Following this is a similar elegiac remembrance of John Wieners by Raymond Foye, depicting Wieners and..... More
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Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 78 enters with an interview of Albert Saijo, friend of Lew Welch, Allen Ginsberg, Joanne Kyger, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, & Jack Kerouac. The issue continues with a valuable interview of Beat poet and social pioneer Ed Sanders, and a speculative take on Kerouac as "Father of the American Haiku." Also jarred within the issue is a...... More
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Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2016. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The Summer 2016 issue of Beat Scene Magazine begins with a short article on the activities and influence of Joanna McClure, poet & former wife of Michael McClure. Also an interview of Gary Snyder, a biographical anecdote of William S. Burroughs by Jim White, where he relates a visit to Burroughs' famous bunker on 222 Bowery Street in New York..... More
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Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2007. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. In Beat Scene No. 53 editor Kevin Ring rolls us another collectible issue of his respected quarterly chock-full of the esteemed articles the publication is known for. Contributions by Ann Charters on the release of the original scroll of Kerouac's immortal "On the Road" and an feature on the integral, authoritative importance of author Joyce Johnson as biographer-friend to the..... More
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Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2016. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene Issue No. 84 begins with an incredibly scholastic article from Jaap Vanderbent that focuses on John Clellon Holmes' relationship with "the classics," but chronicles and comments on many other figures of Beat pedigree (Ed Sanders, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs & others) and their work's relation to classical mythology. Following that is an excellent article from..... More
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