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SATIS #1-5 (all published).
Newcastle upon Tyne: Autumn 1960 - Spring/Summer 1962. Ed. Matthew Mead. 12mo. Stapled wrps., each 24pp., except #5 (28pp.).
A little magazine with an understated design, in keeping with its Latin title, ‘Enough!’, and an equally simple editorial message: “SATIS exists to publish poems.”
Contributors include Anselm Hollo; Gael Turnbull; Michael Shayer; John Heath-Stubbs; Anne Cluysenaar; Larry Eigner; two poems by J.H. Prynne; and, in the final issue, the first appearance of two poems by Charles Bukowski (“A 350 dollar Horse and a hundred dollar Whore”, and “What seems to be the trouble, Gentlemen?”).
This issue also includes an 8pp. essay on Bukowski by R. R. Cuscaden, probably the first critical piece on him to appear in a British literary magazine (Cuscaden had recently published “Run With The Hunted” in Chicago, Bukowski’s third chapbook).
Three of the preceding issues also feature an essay: Matthew Mead on Alun Lewis, Gael Turnbull on William Carlos Williams, and Donald Carroll on John Peale Bishop.
Handwritten “with compliments” slip laid in to first issue, the covers of which are lightly creased, o/w all issues Very Good plus to Near Fine.
Price:
£125.00
