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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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