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SUB 70 #2-4 (London: SUB 70 Press, nd. [1970]).

Ed. Tony Levy, Michel Prigent, Sinclair Beiles (and Jan Herman #3). 4to. Slim wrps., 12pp., 16pp., and 20pp. Illustrated.

A post-situ anarchist magazine, co-edited by Michel Prigent, an acquintance of Guy Debord who moved to London in 1966, and Sinclair Beiles, co-author of the first collection of cut-ups with Burroughs, Gysin and Corso in 1960.

Heathcote Williams contributes “Just a Wasp in Grain Shit” to the second issue, a 3pp. front cover rant on Enoch Powell, SIGNED by him “for Bill Levy Heathcote Williams 1970”, and “The Dead Beatlemachine Fried on the Burning Ghat” to the third issue. The anti-Powell diatribe has been redacted, with the racist Tory’s name removed (a contemporary foolscap 4pp. edition from 1969 which does name him is also included here).

Other contributors include: Allen Ginsberg (“Violence”, Morgan C473); Alexander Trocchi (“The Barbecue” [prose] and “Myrtle with the Light Blue Hair” [poetry]); Gerard Bellaert; Carl Weissner (from “The Cut-Up Conspiracy”, a stereo report, WDR 3rd programme, May 15th, 1970); Liam O’Gallagher; Jerry Rubin; John Sinclair; Hungry Generation poets Pradip Choudhuri and Malay Roy Choudhury; Lynne Tillman; Diane di Prima; Nanos Valaoritis; Jürgen Ploog; Ulli McCarthy; Christopher Logue; and the editors (Tony Levy contributes a report from Phun City to the fourth issue, with mentions of Burroughs and Trocchi in the inflatable tent).

Third issue tanned and worn along spine; second and fourth issues Very Good. Sub 70 became Sub 71 in the following year.

(3 issues).

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