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INS AND OUTS #1-5 (in 4) - all published (Amsterdam: June 1978 - July 1980).

8vo. Wrps., 38pp.-112pp. Illustrated. Edited by Edward Woods.

A complete run of this self-styled “Magazine of Awareness”. It was intended by its original publisher, Salah Harharah, to be an events periodical modeled on London’s Time Out, catering to Amsterdam’s international community and growing tourist industry, but its editor, Eddie Woods, a poet with numerous connections, favoured a more literary features-based magazine (though still printing event listings and reviews).

Heathcote Williams contributes “Time is in the Mind” (6pp.) to the third issue (selections from “The Immortalist”, a play “inspired by a conversation between David Solomon, Mike Lesser and the author, with additional contributions from David Leland, John Mackay and Robert Anton Wilson”).

The first issue contains two pieces by Ira Cohen, who had first met Woods in Kathmandu two years earlier, including “Kathmandu Dream Piece”, plus: “A Punk Opera” by Mel Clay; a collage by Dana Young; Simon Vinkenoog on “Magic Amsterdam”; and a review of David Bowie at Rotterdam’s Ahoy Hall.

The second issue (with compliments slip and folded promotional poster for the magazine laid in) features “Renaldo & Clara” by Ira Cohen, as well as pieces by Hans Plomp, Mel Clay and Steef Davidson, but it was the third issue which created the magazine’s notoriety. In it, an article on the Amsterdam Palette Union, illustrated with their pornographic caricatures of Dutch royalty, led to Woods being busted and under threat of being charged with lèse majesty. The issue, which quickly sold out, also featured the first publication anywhere of Allen Ginsberg’s “Plutonian Ode”, plus: Bill Levy on his Dutch contemporaries and press freedom in the Netherlands; a cartoon by R. Olaf Stoop; three poems by Ira Cohen (including one on Ginsberg); coverage of P78, the first of the One World Poetry festivals; selections from Heathcote Williams’s play, “The Immortalist”; a review of the Knebworth Pop Festival; and a Peruvian recipe for head shrinking.

A two-year hiatus followed, during which time both an Ins & Outs Press and bookstore were opened, before the final double issue appeared, published and edited by Woods, this one perfect bound and thicker than the previous ones. It contains a short story by Paul Bowles; a short story/memoir of San Francisco in the 70s by Eddie Woods (following his recent visit there); poems by Bill Levy, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jan Kerouac, Neeli Cherkovski, Jack Hirschman, Bob Kaufman and Gerard Malanga; “One of Lynne Tillman’s Weird Fucks”, illustrated with a nude photograph of the author by Susan Janssen; contributions from Mel Clay; Akbar del Piombo and Norman Rubington; Charles Henri Ford; Hans Plomp; Charles Gatewood; Ira Cohen (“Bombay Boogie Woogie”, 4pp.); Jane Falk; Steve Abbott; Simon Vinkenoog; John Wilcock; and more.

All issues Very Good plus, at least.

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