Great Works Magazine Contents & Great Works Editions Publications

Great Works Magazine

Issue 1: April 1973
- JH Prynne "Cool as a Mountain Stream" – known as nailing your colours to the mast
- John Riley, 3 poems
- Paul Selby, "Wind"
- Peter Riley "Conquistador" and "Universal Silence"
- Glen Baxter, 5 (absurdist) prose pieces
- Douglas Oliver, "You May Have Your Wish for a Minute"
- Andrew Crozier & John James, "A Transparency for Peter Riley" – welcoming him on his return from Denmark
- David Chaloner, 5 poems
- John Hall, "Eric and Sarah" (prose)
- Paul Buck, poems from Snapshots
- Chris Torrance, 3 poems
- Phil Maillard, 5 poems
- Alastair Wisker, 2 poems (also at Keele)
- Melvyn Biddulph, 4 prose pieces
- Tim Longville, 5 poems
- Andre Crozier, "The Life Class (for Arthur Berry)" – Berry was a painter and writer who lived in Burslem
- John James (reviewing Crozier)
Issue 2: October 1973
- David Trotter, "To Maximize an Injury"
- Douglas Oliver, A Response to Great Works One
- David Chaloner, 4 prose pieces
- Paul Buck, from Vicious Circle
- Martin Thom, from "1,001 Nights"
- Michael Haslam, "The Heartfelt Cry of a Fast-Disappearing race of Nincompoops" (prose)
- Peter Philpott, "For Burslem" (written after visiting Arthur Berry in the company of Andrew Crozier), "Objects as They Blossom: Little imitations of Gertrude Stein, and "A Simple Geography" (Steinian prose)
- John Riley, from "Living In"
- Bill Symondson, 4 poems
- Peter Riley, "Some Consideration of the Playing of Derek Bailey"
- John Welch, "So This is Your Life" and "Cloud in the Sky's Ear"
- Jeremy Hilton, "To Catherine" and "Asylum"
Issue 3: July 1974 – my God! Women writers at last!
- Jim Burns, 6 glorious poems
- Iain Sinclair, from Suicide Bridge – 15 wonderful pages
- John Seed, 3 poems
- Roy Clarek, 3 poems
- Andrew Crozier, Marginal Bleeding
- Anthony Barnett, from Forest Poems
- Wendy Mulford, 3 poems
- David Trotter, "A Practical Method"
- Liz Reentsma, "Some Poems from a Sequence"
- Alistair Wisker, 2 prose pieces
- Tom Lowenstein, "I Can Just Make Out" and "Accident with Naturalists"
- Michael Haslam, "Really Actual Myths" (11 page poem)
- John Welch, 5 poems
- John James, "After Satie, A Concert, 13 June 1972, On the Beach, Aldeburgh", "like / the violet . . ." and "Bye Bye Blackbird"
- Peter Philpott (reviewing Barnett, Crozier, Allen Fisher & Sinclair)
Issue 4: nd (early 1975?)
- Martin Thom (review of Ian Patterson)
- Peter Riley (review of settings of Beckett by Michael Mantler)
- Paul Green, "The Union Match Co. Ltd." and "Lachrimae"
- Nigel Wheale, "Sacred Pieces – a sequence"
- Dick Foreman, "Beetle"
- David Chaloner, "this is matter for further investigation . . "
- John Wilkinson, "La Chair est triste, helas, et j'ai lu tous les livres"
- Iain Sinclair, from Suicide Bridge and from Lud Heat
- Bruton Connors, 2 poems
- Brian Marley, 5 poems
- Tom Lowenstein, "Horizon Without Landscape"
- Martin Thom, from The Bloodshed, the Shaking House – indeed a masterpiece
- David Trotter, 2 prose pieces
- Jeremy Hilton, "Aftermath – community studies 9"
- Bill Symondson, 5 poems
- Michael Haslam, "Fire"
- Elizabeth Rothwell, 5 poems
- Peter Philpott, "Torridge Poems: for Bill Symondson", from Journeys, and "At First Sight / for Peter Taylor" (colleague at Harlow)
Issue 5: December 1975 (this had a sloth on the cover)
- Tim Reynolds, "The Lost Analects of Confucius" and "In this dream Donald duck . . "
- Barry MacSweeney, from Black Torch
- Lee Harwood, "Notes of a Post Office Clerk", from Train Poems, and "Poem for an Edinburgh Room: Sky"
- Paul St. Vincent (ie E A Markham), 3 Lambchops Poems
- Martin Thom, 2 poems
- Anthony Barnett, 4 poems
- Peter Baker, "The Cling"
- Andrew Crozier, "Recorded Message"
- John Welch, 5 poems (including "Braiding the Squadron", 12 pp in all)
- Jeremy Harding, Ice Creamed: A reply to letters from Shropshire, July 1975 – 14 pp sequence based on cracker jokes
- John Hall, from Page 34 and Other Pages (prose)
- Peter Riley, from A Green Book Written at the Pages in Question
- Michael Shearer, from Wrentarule
- John Freeman, 6 poems
- Cory Harding, "Travels in Spain" – ah, Cory, a fine poet, an interesting publisher/editor, a delightful man, and his Peeping Tom publication superbly transgressive and insulting towards the entire avant-garde poetry scene
- John Wilkinson, "Lateral Tactics"
- Alan Davies, 4 poems – editor of US magazine Oculist Witnesses
- Peter Philpott (review of Buck, James and Miller)
Issue 6: December 1976 (cover of Death ploughing across a hand, by Adrian Eckersley (colleague at Harlow)
- Simon Pettet, "The Long March Through Institutions"
- E A Markham, 3 poems
- Paul St Vincent (ie E A Markham), 4 poems (I can't remember whether I was aware these were the same person)
- Tim Dooley, 4 poems
- Peter Taylor, "'The corn is high today, bright'" and "High Beech, '66 & '72"
- Paul Matthews, 4 poems – another excellent poet
- Peter Robinson, "2 Benefit Forms"
- Martin Harrison, "An English Poem"
- Brian Marley, 4 poems
- Richard Caddel, from Baby Days & Moon Diaries
- Elaine Randell, 3 poems
- Kevin Borman, 4 poems
- Yank Lovelock, 5 prose pieces and poems
- Ian Tyson, 4 drawings to the poems following:
- Andrew Crozier, The Utamaro Variations
- Paul Green, 8 poems
- Jon Mantle, "There is a suburb of stress"
- John Freeman, 5 poems
- David Miller, "Poem for Emmy Hennings" and "Children"
- Tim Wyatt, 3 poems
- David H W Grubb, "Electric Granny"
- Opal L Nations, from "Mr Flynn's Advice to the Family"
- John Welch, 3 poems
Issue 7: May 1979 (cover of Turris Babelli, by Adrian Eckersley )
- Jeremy Harding, From a Group (13 pp)
- Michael Haslam, the first part of The Children of / We Came This Way Before (9 pp)
- John Wilkinson, Astringent cream (8 pp)
- Nigel Wheale, "Class Texts"
- Peter Riley (on William Blake) (13 pp, including diagrams)
- Rod Mengham (on Tom Raworth)
- David Miller (on Charles Madge) (10 pp) – the process of discovering ancestors is beginning
- Peter Barry, from Tramwayman
- David Chaloner, 5 poems
- Robert G Sheppard, Triptych (11 pages)
- Richard Wonnacott, "Suicide of an Undergraduate: Letters and Conversations"
Issue 8: planned but aborted
- Adrian Clarke, Alan Davies, Loris Essary, Vivienne Finch, Paul Green on Paul Buck, R G Hampson on Jeremy Hilton, Michael Horowitz, Chris Hunt, Barry Edgar Pilcher, William Pryor, Peter Sinclare, Martin Thom, Richard Wonnacott, Bill Wyatt – it does look as though coherence is vanishing

Publications

A4 mimeo
- Allen Fisher, Docking (1978)
- John Freeman, A Vase of Honesty (January 1979)
- Lorand Gaspar, Ground Absolute, translated by Peter Riley (1976)
- Paul Green, The Hermaphrodite Grimoire (1981) – never really distributed
- John Hall, Couch Grass (1978)
- Martin Harrison, Leisure, drawings by Denise Riley (1978) – my favourite of the mimeo pamphlets
- Michael Haslam, The Fair Set In The Green: A First Inner Grin (1975)
- Neil Oram, The Golden Forgotten (1977)
- Louis Patler, Eloisa (January, 1979)
- Peter Philpott, The Bishops Stortford Variations (1976)
- Nigel Wheals, Answerable Love (1977)
Printed Books
- Andrew Crozier, Pleats (1975)
- John Welch, And Ada Ann: A book of narratives, drawings by Amanda Welch (1978)