Found this letter from Allen Ginsberg today while tidying up. He was always very friendly and supportive over the years. Used to send him copies of Beat Scene and various chapbooks. I think, sometimes, he gave them to poets he met, Anne Waldman, David Meltzer. This letter here is from December 1993, just a few…
Joe Ridgwell is a novelist and poet and Beat Scene subscriber. Living near Edinburgh he has edited a new collection SONGS FROM THE UNDERGROUND, published by East London Press – the volume includes work from Richard Brautigan, Terry Southern, Charles Bukowski, Stevie Smith, Emily Dickinson and others. There is a launch night –…
There is a new issue of Beat Scene magazine. Number 105. If you don’t know about it – Beat Scene is a long running print quarterly. Devoted to America’s Beat Generation. That’s Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and many others. Original essays, material from the archives,…