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Writers Forum

Writers Forum was a small publisher, workshop and writers’ network established by Bob Cobbing. The roots of Writers Forum were in the 1954 arts organization Group H, and the And magazine that Cobbing edited. The writers’ branch of Group H was called Writers Forum. In 1963 a press with the publishing imprint “Writers Forum” was begun and administered by Cobbing, John Rowan, and Jeff Nuttall. Between 1963 and 2002 Writers’ Forum published more than one thousand pamphlets and books including works by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, and P. J. O’Rourke, as well as a wide range of British Poetry Revival modernist poets, such as Eric Mottram, Bill Griffiths, Geraldine Monk, Maggie O’Sullivan, Paula Claire, and Sean Bonney. While publishing was integral to the Cobbing-led workshop, it also provided an opportunity for poets to read their works in a supportive and non-critical environment.

Reference consulted: Bob Cobbing & Writers Forum, edited by Peter Mayer. Published as Ceolfrith 26, October 1974 (ref. Mayer)

Check List of Writers Forum publications:

1. AND, No. 1, edited by Bob Cobbing and Mary Levien
London: Hendon Arts Together, July 1954
(Mayer 1)

2. POEMS BY TWELVE MEMBERS OF WRITERS’ FORUM, edited by Bob Cobbing and John Rowan
London: Writers Forum, August 1959

First edition, saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 4” x 5”, 16 pages, 220 copies, mimeograph printed, cover design by W.H. Nessler. (Mayer 2)

Contributors include: Mary Berry, Lois Hieger, Wendy Stockham, Ninette Quinn, Norman Wallace, Bob Cobbing, John Rowan, Nancy Taylor, Gerda Mayer, Maurice Langham, Jean Salisbury, Brian Gould.

3. AND, No. 2, edited by Bob Cobbing and Mary Levien
London: Arts Together, February 1961
(Mayer 3)

4. AND, No. 3, edited by Bob Cobbing and Mary Levien
London: Arts Together, February 1963
(Mayer 4)

5. Musgrove, Keith and Jeff Nuttall. THE LIMBLESS VIRTUOSO
London: Writers’ Forum, June 1963

First edition, side-stapled and bound in printed and illustrated wrappers, 6.5” x 9”, 20 leaves printed on recto only, 220 copies, mimeograph printed, cover linocut by Jeff Nuttall. Published as Writers Forum Poets No. 1. (Mayer 5)

According to Mayer, “This was the real beginning of Writers Forum as a publishing venture; though it had existed as the literary branch of Arts Together since December 1952, when it was Hendon Writers’ Group.”

6. Cobbing, Bob and John Rowan. THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS
London: Writers Forum, July 1963

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 6.75” x 8.75”, 17 leaves printed on recto only, 220 copies, mimeograph printed, cover linocut by Jeff Nuttall. Published as Writers Forum Poets No. 2. (Mayer 6)

7. Roberts, Derek and Michael McGrinder. TOMBSTONES
London: Writers Forum, August 1963
(Mayer 7)

8. Ball, David and Anselm Hollo. WE JUST WANTED TO TELL YOU
London: Writers Forum, October 1963

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 6.5” x 8.5”, 18 leaves printed on recto only, 220 copies, mimeograph printed, cover linocut by Jeff Nuttall. Published as Writers Forum Poets No. 4. (Mayer 8)

9. Ginsberg, Allen. THE CHANGE
London: Writers Forum, November 1963

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 6.75” x 9”, 12 leaves printed on recto only, 220 copies, mimeograph printed, cover linocut by Jeff Nuttall. Published as Writers Forum Poets No. 5. (Mayer 9)

The first state:
According to Mayer, the “first twelve copies of this had ‘Ginsburg’ on cover, altered by hand to ‘Ginsberg'”. This is the first state, described in Morgan (A7). The corrected state above was reprinted with the linocut revised to correct the spelling.

10. Hieger, Lois. THE HUMAN DRESS
London: Writers Forum, February 1964

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 7” x 9”, 17 leaves printed on recto only, 220 copies, mimeograph printed, cover linocut by Jeff Nuttall. Published as Writers Forum Poets No. 6. (Mayer 10)

11. BARNET POETS, an anthology from schools in the New Borough of Barnet
London: Writers Forum, April 1965

Second revised edition, 6.5” x 8.5”, 20 leaves printed on recto only, 220 copies, mimeograph printed, cover linocut by Jeff Nuttall. Published as Writers Forum Poets No. 10.
(Mayer 11)

Note: the first edition was published by Arts Together in November 1964.

12. Cobbing, Bob. SOUND POEMS
London: Writers Forum, January 1965

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 7” x 9”, 28 leaves printed on recto only, 220 copies, mimeograph printed, cover silkscreen by Jennifer Pike. Published as Writers Forum Poets No. 7. (Mayer 12)

Note: a second edition was published in October 1965, and a third edition in June 1967.

13. Cobbing, Bob. TYPESTRACT ONE
London: Writers Forum, January 1965
(Mayer 13)

14. Hardwick, Anne. TO THE NORTH
London: Writers Forum, March 1965

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 7” x 9”, 11 leaves printed on recto only, 220 copies, mimeograph printed, cover silkscreen by Jennifer Pike. Published as Writers Forum Poets No. 8. (Mayer 14)

15. Richardson, Heather and Keith Musgrove. THE EXCREMENT OF ANGELS
London: Writers Forum, March 1965
(Mayer 15)

16. Jandl, Ernst. MAI HART LIEB ZAPFEN EIBE HOLD
London: Writers Forum, May 1965

First edition, side-stapled in printed wrappers, 7” x 9.5”, 28 leaves printed on recto only, 220 copies, mimeograph printed, cover silkscreen by Jennifer Pike. Published as Writers Forum Poets No. 11. (Mayer 16)

Note: a second edition was published in November 1965, and a third edition in June 1971.

According to Mayer, this book was published to celebrate Ernst Jandl’s visit to England for the Albert Hall ‘International Poetry Incarnation’, June 11, 1965. On this occasion, three poets, Ernst Jandl, Anselm Hollo, and Allen Ginsberg, read from Writers Forum booklets.

17. Rowan, John. THE TEN PLAGUES
London: Writers Forum, May 1965

First edition, 6.75” x 8.5”, 22 leaves printed on recto only, 220 copies, mimeograph printed, cover design by Jeff Nuttall. Illustrated with ten illustrations by Jeff Nuttall. Published as Writers Forum Poets No. 12. (Mayer 17)

Note: a second edition was published in August 1970, and a third edition in October 1974.

18. Harwood, Lee. TITLE ILLEGIBLE
London: Writers Forum, June 1965

First edition, side-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 6.75” x 8.5”, 21 leaves printed on recto only, 220 copies, mimeograph printed, cover silkscreen by Jennifer Pike. Published as Writers Forum Poets No. 13. (Mayer 18)

Note: Lee Harwood’s first book.

19. Houedard, Dom Silvester. OP AND KINKON POEMS / AND SOME NON-KINKON
London: Writers Forum, June 1965

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 7.25” x 9.5”, 27 leaves printed on recto only, 220 copies, mimeograph printed, cover silkscreen by Jennifer Pike from a design by Bob Cobbing, title pages designed by Bob Cobbing. Published as Writers Forum Poets No. 14. (Mayer 19)

Note: a second edition was published in December 1965, and a third edition in April 1967.

20. Cobbing, Bob. SOUND POEMS; and Jandl, Ernst. SPRECHGEDICHTE [12″ LP]
London: Writers Forum, September 1965
(Mayer 20)

21. Cobbing, Bob. SOUND POEMS; and Jandl, Ernst. SPRECHGEDICHTE
London: Writers Forum, September 1965

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 6.75” x 8.5”, 23 leaves printed on recto only, 220 copies, mimeograph printed, cover silkscreen by Jennifer Pike. Introduction, Ancestry, and Chronology by Dom Silvester Houedard. Published as Writers Forum Poets No. 15. (Mayer 21)

Note: published to accompany Writers Forum Record No. 1 (see Mayer 20)

22. Fetherston, Patrick. EIGHTEEN QUADRUPLE READINGS
London: Writers Forum, September 1965

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 7.25” x 9.25”, 20 leaves printed on recto only, 220 copies, mimeograph printed, cover silkscreen by Jennifer Pike from a design by Bob Cobbing. Published as Writers Forum Poets No. 16. (Mayer 22)

23. Nuttall, Jeff. PIECES OF POETRY
London: Writers Forum, February 1966

First edition, side-stapled and bound in photo-illustrated and printed wrappers, 6.75” x 9”, 18 leaves printed on recto only, 500 copies (12 copies numbered and signed by the author), offset printed at the Coptic Press. Cover photo of Nuttall by Dave Trace. Published as Writers Forum Poets No. 17. (Mayer 23)

24. Valoch, Jiri. HLAS
London: Writers Forum, February 1966
(Mayer 24)

25. AND, No. 4, edited by Bob Cobbing and John Rowan
London: Writers Forum, March 1966

First edition, perfect-bound in illustrated wrappers, 7.5” x 9.5”, 30 pages, 500 copies, offset printed at the Coptic Press, cover design by Jennifer Pike. (Mayer 4)

Contributors include: Anselm Hollo, Dom Silvester Houedard, Ernst Jandl, Franciszka Themerson, Stefan Themerson, David Mycroft, John Rowan, Bob Cobbing, Bill Butler, Jeff Nuttall, Barry Cole, Anne Hardwick, Criton Tomazos, Jean Michaelson, Philip Crick.

26. Butler, Bill. THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA
London: Writers Forum, April 1966

First edition, side-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 6” x 8”, 27 leaves printed printed on recto only, 220 copies (50 copies numbered and signed), offset printed, silkscreen cover by Jennier Pike from a design by SAMS. Published as Writers Forum Poets No. 19. (Mayer 26)

Note: a second edition was published in December 1970.

27. Cobbing, Bob. EYEARUN
London: Writers Forum, April 1966
(Mayer 27)

28. Mycroft, David. WHO WROTE ‘FIXED’ ON THE CARRAWAY HORSE?
London: Writers Forum, August 1966
(Mayer 28)

29. Hollo, Anselm. THE GOING-ON POEM
London: Writers Forum, April 1966
(Mayer 29)

30. GROUP H, edited by Bob Cobbing
London: Writers Forum, October 1966

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8” x 10”, 22 leaves printed on recto only, 220 copies, offset printed, cover design and endpaper by Bob Cobbing. Introduction by John Rowan. Published as Writers Forum Quartos No. 2. (Mayer 30)

Contributors include: Franciszka Themerson, Jennifer Pike, Barry Flanagain, John Rowan, Criton Tomazos, Jeff Nuttall, Alan Baker, Bob Cobbing, Kenneth Swain, Islwyn Watkins, Jeff Cloves, John Latham, William Chard, David Warren, Dave Trace, Hannah Swain, Gabi Weissmann.

Note: A booklet issued at the time of Group H’s thirty-sixth exhibition held at the Drian Galleries, October 1966. A second edition was published in December 1969 and contains a review of the exhibition by John Rowan reprinted from International Times.

31. Nuttall, Jeff. COME BACK SWEET PRINCE: A NOVELETTE
London: Writers Forum, December 1966

First edition, saddle-stapled in illustrated and printed wrappers, 6.5” x 8.5”, 40 pages, 220 copies (12 copies numbered and signed by the author), offset printed by Cuddon’s Cosmopolitan Review. Published as Writers Forum Poets No. 21. (Mayer 31)

32. Nichol, bp. KONFESSIONS OF AN ELIZABETHAN FAN DANCER
London: Writers Forum, January 1967
(Mayer 32)

33. Houedard, Dom Silvester. TANTRIC POEMS, PERHAPS
London: Writers Forum, May 1967
(Mayer 33)

34. Hollo, Anselm. ISADORA AND OTHER POEMS
London: Writers Forum, May 1967

First edition, side-stapled in printed wrappers, 4.5” x 6”, 14 leaves printed on recto only, 220 copies, offset printed at the Wooden Shoe, cover from author’s holograph. Published as Writers Forum Minibooks, No. 2. (Mayer 34)

35. Pelieu, Claude. SWIFT SCRIPTS: NOTES AND AFTER EFFECTS
London: Writers Forum, November 1967

First edition, side stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 7” x 9”, 31 leaves printed on recto obnly, 500 copies, offset printed, cover design by Jeff Nuttall. Translated from the French by Mary Beach. Published as Writers Forum Poets, No. 22. (Mayer 35)

36. Valoch, Jiri. NINE OPTICAL POEMS
London: Writers Forum, November 1967
(Mayer 36)

37. Cobbing, Bob. KURRIRRURRIRI
London: Writers Forum, November 1967

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8” x 10”, 16 leaves printed on recto only, 220 copies (25 copies numbered and signed), mimeograph and offset printed, cover design by Bob Cobbing. Published as Writers Forum Quartos, No. 4. (Mayer 37)

Note: a second edition was published in October 1969, a third in December 1970, and a fourth in March 1973.

38. Nuttall, Jeff. OSCAR CHRIST AND THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
London: Writers Forum, September 1968

First edition, saddle-stapled in illustrated and printed wrappers, 6.5” x 8”, 28 pages, offset printed, cover design by Nuttall. Published as Writers Forum Poets No. 23. (Mayer 38)

Note: Second printing in August 1970.

39. Nuttall, Jeff. MR. WATKINS GOT DRUNK AND HAD TO BE CARRIED HOME
London: Writers Forum, September 1968

Second printing, saddle-stapled in illustrated and printed wrappers, 6.5” x 8”, 48 pages, 500 copies (12 copies numbered and signed by the author), cover illustration by Nuttall. Published as Writers Forum Poets No. 24. (Mayer 39)

From the colophon: “This publication assisted by a financial grant from the Arts Council of Great Britain is a facsimile of the original hors-commerce edition.”

40. Cobbing, Bob. SO (SIX SOUND POEMS)
London: Writers Forum, September 1968

First edition, 7 cards in envelope with cover label tipped on, 8.5” x 10.5”, 220 copies (12 copies numbered and signed), offset printed, cover design by Bob Cobbing. Published as Writers Forum Folders No. 4. (Mayer 40)

Note: a second edition published in August 1969, a third in March 1970, and the fourth edition in July 1972.

41. PAMPHLET ONE, edited by Bob Cobbing
London: Writers Forum, October 1968

First edition, saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 6.5” x 8”, 8 pages, 220 copies, offset printed. Published as Writers Forum Pamphlets No. 1. (Mayer 41)

Contributors include: Jeff Nuttall, Brion Gysin, Asa Benveniste, Paul de Vree, Bob Cobbing.

Note: Prepared for Bob Cobbing’s talk and reading at Birmingham and Midland Institute.

42. Rubin, Barbara. CHRISTMAS ON EARTH CONTINUED
London: Writers Forum, December 1968
(Mayer 42)

43. Cobbing, Bob. OCTO
London: Writers Forum, February 1969

First edition, 9 cards of varying sizes printed on recto only in envelope with cover label tipped on, 9″ x 12.5″, 220 copies, offset printed, cover design by Bob Cobbing. Published as Writers Forum Folders No. 5. (Mayer 43)

Note: a second edition was published in August 1970.

44. Cobbing, Bob. WHISPER PIECE
London: Writers Forum, March 1969
(Mayer 44)

45. Cobbing, Bob. TYPESTRACT TWO
London: Writers Forum, March 1969
(Mayer 45)

46. Okai, John. FLOWERFALL
London: Writers Forum, June 1969
(Mayer 46)

47. Cobbing, Bob. WHISSISSIPPI
London: Writers Forum, July 1969

First edition, saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 6.5” x 8″, 12pages, 220 copies, offset printed. Published as Writers Forum Pamphlets No. 2. (Mayer 47)

Note: includes everything that was committed to paper in the preparation of a tape-poem; how the score in Whisper Piece (Mayer 44) was developed.

48. Mills, Neil. 12 LOGOTRICKADES
London: Writers Forum, August 1969
(Mayer 48)

49. Cobbing, Bob. WHY SHIVA HAS TEN ARMS
London: Writers Forum, August 1969

First edition, 10 pages in envelope with cover label tipped on, 9.5” x 11.5”, 220 copies, mimeograph printed, cover designed by Bob Cobbing. Published as Writers Forum Folders No. 7. (Mayer 49)

Note: a second edition was published in July 1972.

50. AND FIVE, edited by Bob Cobbing and John Rowan
London: Writers Forum, September 1969

First edition, unbound sheets in transparent sleeve, 8” x 10”, 35 leaves printed on recto only, 500 copies (12 copies signed by most contributors), offset printed. Cover and frontispiece by Jennifer Pike. (Mayer 50)

Contributors include: Suzanne Bradley, Henri Chopin, Thomas A. Clark, Jeff Cloves, Bob Cobbing, Jennifer Cobbing (Pike), Jeni Couzyn, Michael Da Costa, Alan Davis, Amelia Etlinger, Roy Exley, Anne Hardwick, Dom Silvester Houedard, D.A. Levy, Ulli McCarthy, Michael McGrinder, Peter Mayer, Neil Mills, John Moore, Jeff Nuttall, M.D. Papas, Steve Riley, John Rowan, Schuldt, Peter Stevens, Kenneth Swain, Hannah Swain, Stefan Themerson, Franciszka Themerson, Criton Tomazos, Jirí Valoch, Charles Verey, Andy Walters, Islwyn Watkins, Diz Willis and Gerd Zimmermann.

Note: In many cases, the pages were prepared and printed by the contributors; This issue coincided with the 37th exhibition of Group H at the Students Gallery, Herne Hill in which many of the contributors exhibited, and the pages of the magazine were displayed.

51. Stevens, Peter. LEAVES FROM FALLING TREES
London: Writers Forum, September 1969

First edition, side stapled in photo-illustrated wrappers, 6.5” x 8″, 28 leaves printed on recto only, 220 copies (12 copies numbered and signed), mimeograph printed, offset cover by Bob Cobbing from photographs of Peter Stevens. Published as Writers Forum Poets No. 27. (Mayer 51)

Note: This was the last number in the Writers Forum Poets series.

52. Watkins, Islwyn. DRAWING
London: Writers Forum, December 1969
(Mayer 52)

53. A TYPOGRAPHICAL PROBLEM, edited by Bob Cobbing
London: Writers Forum, December 1969

First edition, saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 5″ x 8″, 12 pages, 220 copies, offset printed, includes poems and prose by contributors in two typographical settings by Bob Cobbing. Published as Writers Forum Pamphlets No. 3. (Mayer 53)

Contributors include: Bob Cobbing, Stefan Themerson, Eugen Gomringer, Peter Mayer.

54. Nichol, bp. LAMENT
London: Writers Forum, December 1969

First edition, saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 4.5″ x 5.5″, 20 pages, mimeograph printed. Published as Writers Forum Minibooks, No. 3. (Mayer 54)

Note: first published May 1969 by Ganglia Press, Toronto.

55. Cobbing, Bob. TRIPTYCH
London: Writers Forum, February 1970
(Mayer 55)

56. Cobbing, Jennifer. WUMP ERTATER
London: Writers Forum, March 1970

First edition, 9 cards with printed enclosure in envelope with tipped in printed and illustrated label, 8.5″ x 10.5″, mieograph-printed, offset-printed cover by Jennifer Cobbing. Published as Writers Forum Folders No. 8. (Mayer 56)

57. FREE FORM POETRY 1, edited by Bob Cobbing
London: Writers Forum, July 1970
(Mayer 57)

58. SAMPLES OF CONCRETE POETRY, edited by Bob Cobbing
London: Writers Forum, August 1970
(Mayer 58)

59. McCarthy, Ulli. YOUR FACE YOUR FACE HAD NOT BEEN SEEN
London: Writers Forum, August 1970
(Mayer 59)

60. Mottram, Eric. INSIDE THE WHALE
London: Writers Forum, August 1970

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8″ x 10″, 10 leaves printed on recto only, mimeograph-printed, cover and  illustrations by Jeff Nuttall. Published as Writers Forum Quartos No. 7. (Mayer 60)

Note: Eric Mottram’s first book of poems.

61. Zair, Roger. WITCHWAY
London: Writers Forum, August 1970
(Mayer 61)

62. Rowan, John. RED WHITE BLUE
London: Writers Forum, November 1970

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8″ x 10″, 32 leaves printed on recto only, mimeograph printed, cover designed by John Rowan. Published as Writers Forum Quartos No. 8. (Mayer 62)

63. Cobbing, Bob. SONIC ICONS
London: Writers Forum, November 1970
(Mayer 63)

64. Cobbing, Bob. KRIS KRINGLES KESMES KORALS
London: Writers Forum, December 1970
(Mayer 64)

65. Mills, Neil. NUMBER SCORE FOR TWO VOICES
London: Writers Forum, December 1970
(Mayer 65)

66. Cobbing, Bob. THREE MINIMANIFESTOS
London: Writers Forum, December 1970
(Mayer 66)

67. Stickney, Walt Christopher. TO NIGHT * LITTLE DAVID ON MOUTH HARP
London: Writers Forum, December 1970

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8″ x 10″, 12 leaves printed on recto only, mimeograph printed, cover and illustrations by Brian McCollum. Published as Writers Forum Quartos No. 10. (Mayer 67)

68. O’Rourke, P.J. NANCY ADLER POEMS
London: Writers Forum, December 1970
(Mayer 68)

69. KROKLOK No. 1, edited by Dom Silvester Houedard
London: Writers Forum, February 1971

First edition, saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.25” x 11.25”, 32 pages, mimeograph printed, cover designed by Bob Cobbing. Introduction by Houedard. Notes by Bob Cobbing. (Mayer 69)

Contributors include: Christian Morgenstern, Raoul Hausmann, Lewis Carroll, Ernst Jandl, Paul Scheerbart, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Bob Cobbing, Dom Silvester Houedard, Paul de Vree, Paula Claire, Jack Kerouac, François Dufrêne, Michel Seuphor.

Note: Kroklok is a magazine of and about sound poetry.

70. Cobbing, Bob. THREE POEMS FOR VOICE AND MOVEMENT
London: Writers Forum, March 1971

First edition, side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8” x 11.5”, 24 pages, mimeograph printed, cover by Bob Cobbing. Published as Writers Forum Fours No. 1. (Mayer 70)

Notes: second edition published August 1971. The ‘Fours’ series replaces Writers Forum Quartos.

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References consulted:

      • Better Books/Better Bookz: Art, Anarchy, Apostasy, Counter-culture & the New Avant-garde, edited by Rozemin Keshvani, Axel Heil, and Peter Weibel
        London: Koenig Books, 2018
      • Bob Cobbing & Writers Forum, edited by Peter Mayer
        Ceolfrith Arts/Sunderland Arts Centre, October 1974
        Published as Ceolfrith 26. (ref. Mayer)
      • Morgan, Bill. The Works of Allen Ginsberg
        Wesport: Greenwood Press, 1995
little magazines

Once Series

The final issue of the Once Series with Joe Brainard cover art.

An eclectic periodical, published coincident with Tom Clark’s Fulbright study and posting as Instructor in American Poetry at the University of Essex. The titles varied but each was denoted “A One Shot Magazine… No Copyright No Nothin.”

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Once Series

Edited by Tom Clark, the Once Series is an eclectic periodical, published coincident with Clark’s Fulbright study and posting as Instructor in American Poetry at the University of Essex. The titles varied (all words concluding with ‘CE’) but each was denoted “A One Shot Magazine… No Copyright No Nothin.”

According to Tom Clark: “When I went on from Cambridge to the U. of Essex in 1965 I began editing a mimeograph magazine of my own, the Once series, and through that project got into long-distance postal contact with many younger American poets, particularly those living on the Lower East Side of New York…

“The magazines had deliberately uncataloguable titles: Once, Twice, Thrice, Thrice and a Half, Frice, Vice, Ice, Nice, Slice, Slice Vol. 1, No. 2, and Spice. I filled up the mimeo series with the spillover of poems I was receiving for the Paris Review — which could handle only a fraction of the good new work that was coming in to me — as well as with some ‘assignments’ from friends far and near…

“Joe’s series of covers, a throwaway tour de force of periodical art, lent class, consistency and uniformity to the Once series, bringing a surprising illusion of orderly design to an otherwise rather undisciplined and chaotic enterprise.

“Most of the works I published in the Once series were somewhat or in some way more outlandish or strange than what I could cull for the Paris Review.”

  • Excerpt from Kevin Ring interview with Tom Clark published as Jacket 21 in Jacket Magazine, 2003.

1. ONCE: A One Shot Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, edited by Tom Clark
Brightlingsea: Tom Clark, 1966

First edition, side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8″ x 13″, 14 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed.

  • Contents:
    1. Robin Blaser – “Psyche”
      Robin Blaser – “Sophia Nichols”
      Steve Jonas – “Ode for Garcia Lorca”
      Ed Dorn – “A Provisional Fragment, Congested with 3 Titles”
      Ron Padgett – “Poem after Reverdy”
      Ron Padgett – “Light in the Nineteenth Century”
      Aram Saroyan – “The Sentence”
      Max Finstein – [untitled] “You, sonofabitch love you…”
      Edward van Aelstyn – [untitled] “In the morning night…”
      Edward van Aelstyn – “Poem Ending with ‘George Orwell’”
      Phyllis Harris – “The Giant One Legged…”
      Philip Lamantia – “Without Props”
      Sam Abrams – “The 1st Day”
      Allan Kaplan – “Billy and Franz”
      Gerry Gilbert – “The Stakes”
      Tom Raworth – “Not Under Holly or Green Boughs”
      Tom Raworth – “She Sd, Bread, Fred”
      Tom Raworth – “The Third Retainer”

2. TWICE: A One Shot Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, edited by Tom Clark
Brightlingsea: Tom Clark, 1966

First edition, side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8″ x 13″, 7 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed.

  • Contents:
    1. Robert Howell – “from Ten Great Poetry Readings: VI”
      Ron Padgett – “On Ten Fingers” [translation of following Reverdy poem]
      Pierre Reverdy – “Sur Les Dix Doigts”

3. THRICE: A One Shot Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, edited by Tom Clark
Brightlingsea: Tom Clark, March 1966

First edition, side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8″ x 13″, 25 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed.

  • Contents:
    1. Max Jacob – “from Le Cornet à Des” (translated by Ron Padgett)
      F.J. Lauria – “Crazyface”
      Joanne Kyger – “This is Water Sons”
      Joanne Kyger – “The Sky Vault. Its Own Legend”
      Joanne Kyger – “Dear, Dearest”
      Aram Saroyan – “Poem” [“I seldom remember what…”]
      Ted Berrigan – “February Air”
      Ted Berrigan – “From a Life for Teresa Mitchell”
      Ted Berrigan – “Epithalamium for Bernie Mitchell”
      Ed Dorn – “Box Score”
      Pamela Millward – “17 November 1965”
      Larry Fagin – [untitled] “Which way is it you want me…”
      Gael Turnbull – “Song”
      Gael Turnbull – “An Intent”
      Gael Turnbull – “A Good Man”
      Richard Kolmar – “Aristophanes”
      Charles Olson – “Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27”
      Gerry Gilbert – “Living at Claude & Ardie’s”
      Gerry Gilbert – “Bicycle”
      Gerry Gilbert – “Train”
      E.A. McGregor-Plarr – “An Ode”
      Clark Coolidge – “Noon Print”
      Clark Coolidge – “In Land Trip Machine”
      Clark Coolidge – “The Beings There, Not There, House”
      Clark Coolidge – “Scrub Brush, in Lansing Michigan”
      Clark Coolidge – “More Group Slab Reach”
      Clark Coolidge – “Hall Crawl & Tuba Ode”
      Thomas Clark – “Change”
      Thomas Clark – “Doors”
      Thomas Clark – “The Archer”
      Thomas Clark – “You”
      Thomas Clark – “You (II)”
      Thomas Clark – “You (III)”
      Thomas Clark – “You (IV)”
      Aram Saroyan – “Letter to the Village Voice”
      Thomas Clark – “You (V)”
      Harold Dull – “The Dice”
      Harold Dull – “The Door Poem”

4. THRICE AND A HALF: A One Shot Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, edited by Tom Clark
Brightlingsea: Tom Clark, 1966

First edition, side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8″ x 13″, 2 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed.

  • Contents:
    1. Tom Pickard – “The Bodies are Touching”
      Tom Pickard – “Daylight Hours”
      Tom Pickard – “Forbidden Birth”

5. FRICE: A One Shot Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, edited by Tom Clark
Brightlingsea: Tom Clark, April 1966

First edition, side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8″ x 13″, 24 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Joe Brainard.

  • Contents:
    1. Fielding Dawson – “Hernando’s Hideaway”
      Fielding Dawson – “Oblivion Calling for Philip Guston”
      Michael Benedikt – “Fraudulent Days”
      Michael Benedikt – “Developments”
      Michael Benedikt – “Mr. Rainman”
      Michael Benedikt – “Bedouin Tents”
      Allen Ginsberg – “Portland Aug. 27, 1965”
      Aram Saroyan – “Signs”
      Max Jacob – “Christmas Story” (translated by Ron Padgett)
      Max Jacob – “The Key” (translated by Ron Padgett)
      Max Jacob – “Adventure Story” (translated by Ron Padgett)
      Max Jacob – “Valiant Warrior on Foreign Soil” (translated by Ron Padgett)
      Ron Padgett – “Talking Neutrality”
      Ron Padgett – “Words to Joe Ceravolo”
      Larry Fagin – “Occasional Poem”
      Lee Harwood – “Summer”
      Tristan Tzara – “Volt” (translated by Lee Harwood)
      Tristan Tzara – “The Jugglers” (translated by Lee Harwood)
      Philippe Soupault – “2 Songs” (translated by Lee Harwood)
      John Perreault – “The Americans”
      John Perreault – “Punishment”
      John Perreault – “Renaissance”
      John Perreault – “These Trains”
      Guillaume Appollinaire – “The Chaste Lise” (translated by Thomas Clark)
      Edward van Aelstyn – “Information Explosion”
      Gertrude Stein – “Shakespeare”
      Ted Berrigan – “Living with Chris for Chris Gallup”
      Ted Berrigan – “A Dream”
      Ted Berrigan – “Poem for Ed Sanders”
      Steve Carey – “Sand”
      Ted Berrigan – “A Personal Memoir of Tulsa, Oklahoma”
      Ted Berrigan – “After Breakfast”
      Ted Berrigan – “American Express”
      Robert Desnos – “Take Off Your Clothes” (translated by Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett)
      Max Earnst – “Poem” (translated by Ted Berrigan)
      Guillaume Apollinaire – “Epigram” (translated by Ted Berrigan)
      Ted Berrigan – “Selflessness”
      Thomas Clark – “Telephone Poem”
      Thomas Clark – “Afternoons”
      Thomas Clark – “Poem” (“You dream things…”)
      Thomas Clark – “The Last Poem”
      Hart Crane – “Chaplinesque”
      Thomas Clark – “Michelin Poem”

6. VICE: A One Shot Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, edited by Tom Clark
Brightlingsea: Tom Clark, 1966

First edition, side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8″ x 13″, 27 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Joe Brainard.

  • Contents:
    1. Ed Sanders – “The Fugs”
      Gregory Corso – “But Surely Yahweh’s Not Dead?”
      Gregory Corso – “O Mighty Tug”
      Gregory Corso – “In Honor of Those the Negroes are Revolting Against”
      Gregory Corso – “Not This”
      Larry Eigner – [untitled] “Entering and going out…”
      Andres Segovia – [untitled] “True it is…”
      Ron Padgett – “Joe Brainard’s Painting ‘Bingo’”
      Joe Brainard, Ron and Patricia Padgett – “An Interview with Joe Brainard”
      Blaise Cendrars – “Ten Poems” (translated by Ron Padgett)
      Fielding Dawson – “Two Reviews” (reviews of recent Kyger and O’Hara books)
      Ron Padgett – “Reading Reverdy”
      David Shapiro – “From a May Night”
      Ted Berrigan – “from Clearing the Range, Charter 25”
      Thomas Clark – “from Cluttering the Ranch, Chapter 90”
      Thomas Clark – “Clavier”
      Joe Pinelli – “from Striations, The Season’s Change”
      Michel Couturier – “Maison-Dieu” (translated by Lee Harwood)
      Lee Harwood – “The Tractors are Waiting (for Larry Fagin)”
      Aram Saroyan – [untitled] “Gradually money…”
      James Brodey – “Vice, 1966”
      Thomas Clark – “from Cluttering the Ranch, Chapter 2”
      George Tysh – “Plus”
      Joe Perreault – “Vice”

7. ICE: A One Shot Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, edited by Tom Clark
Brightlingsea: Tom Clark, 1966

First edition, side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8″ x 13″, 20 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed.

  • Contents:
    1. Ted Berrigan – “Blueprint for a Poem to be Written…”
      E.A. McGregor-Plarr – “Two Serious Ladies”
      Allen Ginsberg – “Amsterdam Avenue Bar”
      Joanne Kyger – “May 29”
      Bernadette Mayer – “Earthworks”
      Harlan Dangerfield – “Der Geisterseher”
      Joe Pinelli – “from Striations:The Season’s Change”
      Robert Howell – “Poem” [“Such deep failure…]
      Robert Howell – [untitled] “Recently I was struck…”
      Ted Berrigan and Bernadette Mayer – “I am Davis”
      Tom Clark – “Martha’s Millions”
      Tom Clark – “What I’m Trying to Say”
      Tom Clark – “To Himself”
      Fielding Dawson – “Some History”
      Diane di Prima – “Song for the Spring Equinox”
      Robert Howell – “I Dream I Suppose Indefinitely of Yourself”
      David Shapiro – “For Chagy”
      Richard Kolmar – “Part of an Elegy”
      Richard Kolmar – “Love Letter I Forgot to Mail”
      Richard Kolmar – “The Intoxicating Thing”
      Doreen – “Humans”
      Jack Kerouac – “from Visions of Cody”
      Aram Saroyan – “Guarantee”
      Edward Kissam – “Shards, Pottery”
      Ted Berrigan – “A Cranny of Life”
      Peter Schjeldahl – “Contemporary Lights”
      Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett – “Uncas”
      Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, Tom Veitch, and Dick Gallup – “In the Foundry”

8. NICE: A One Shot Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, edited by Tom Clark
Brightlingsea: Tom Clark, 1966

First edition, side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8″ x 13″, 20 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Joe Brainard.

  • Contents:
    1. Joe Brainard – “Life”
      Charles Goldman – “Smoke Dance”
      John Perreault – “Memorandum”
      John Perreault – “Elbow”
      Aram Saroyan – “Quote”
      Aram Saroyan – “from Songs & Buttons”
      Richard Brautigan – “The Armored Car”
      Tom Clark – “Hitching”
      Tom Clark – “from The Riot at the Garrick Theatre”
      Lee Harwood – “His July Return”
      Clark Coolidge – “Soda Gong”
      Clark Coolidge – “Cellary”
      Harry Fainlight – “Exercise 1”
      Harry Fainlight – “Spider Eclipse”
      Harry Fainlight – “Laws”
      Harry Fainlight – “H”
      Frank O’Hara – “Ode to Willem de Kooning”
      David Shapiro – “For Chagy”
      Harry Fainlight – “The Gates of Albion”
      Dick Gallup – “An Idea that Reaches the Moon”
      Peter Schjeldahl and Ted Berrigan – “Juking”
      Peter Schjeldahl and Ted Berrigan – “Pictures from Breughel”
      Peter Schjeldahl – “Soft Letter”
      Ted Berrigan – [untitled] “Before the orgasmic platform…”

9. SLICE: A One Shot Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, edited by Tom Clark
Brightlingsea: Tom Clark, 1966

First edition, side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8″ x 13″, 26 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Joe Brainard.

  • Contents:
    1. Dick Gallup – “Death and the Maiden”
      Dick Gallup – “The Georgics”
      Dick Gallup – “The Bingo: Act III”
      Bruce Maddox – “The Engagement Ring Cycle”
      Joe Ceravolo – “Surface”
      Joe Ceravolo – “Leaped at the Caribou”
      Joe Ceravolo – “In the Grass”
      Joe Ceravolo – “Stars of the Trees and Ponds”
      Lewis MacAdams – “The Dazzling Day”
      Lewis MacAdams – “The Witch”
      Joe Ceravolo – “Stillness”
      Jack Collom – “Count K. in the Wind”
      Steve Carey – “Something of Nothing”
      Steve Carey – “Silhouette”
      James Brodey – “Someplace/Utah”
      Thomas Clark – “Spectacles”
      Thomas Clark – “The Fire-Dance”
      Thomas Clark – “Mudball Gathering”
      Thomas Clark – “The Trial”
      Thomas Clark – “Baseball”
      Thomas Clark – “Pancakes”
      David Shapiro – “Poem” [Light became audible…”
      David Shapiro – “Any Plant that Turns Toward the Sun”
      David Shapiro – “For Son II”
      Ted Berrigan – “Corporal Pellegrini”
      Max Jacob – “Genre Biographique” (translated by Ted Berrigan)
      Max Jacob – “The War” (translated by Ted Berrigan)
      Max Jacob – “The Enemy of the Citadel” (translated by Ted Berrigan)
      Max Jacob – “Symbolic Egyptienne” (translated by Ted Berrigan)
      Guillaume Apollinaire – “A Poem” (translated by Ted Berrigan)
      Ron Padgett and Ted Berrigan – “from A Little Anthology of Modern Verse”
      Ed Dorn – “2nd Quarter”
      Sotere Torregian – “Lionine, An Elegy”
      Sotere Torregian – “In the Year of Reredos”
      Sotere Torregian – “The Museum of Famous People”
      Aram Saroyan – “Two Poems”
      Sotere Torregian – “from The Uncollected Poems of John Wesley Hardin”
      LeRoi Jones – “Labor and Management”
      Tom Raworth – “The Circle”
      Sotere Torregian – “Fire on Leon Blum”
      Peter Schjeldahl – “Gauge”

10. SLICE: A One Shot Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, edited by Tom Clark
Brightlingsea: Tom Clark, 1967

First edition, side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8″ x 13″, 7 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Joe Brainard.

  • Contents:
    1. Fielding Dawson – “Spring Sequence”
      Bernadette Mayer – “The Earmark”
      Michael McClure – “Dream Table”

11. SPICE, edited by Tom Clark
Brightlingsea: Tom Clark, 1967

First edition, side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8″ x 13″, 24 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Joe Brainard.

  • Contents:
    1. Ted Berrigan – “Looking for Chris, Part I”
      Anne Waldman -”After the Circus”
      Ron Padgett – “A Katz”
      Ron Padgett – “Injured Nancy”
      Steve Carey – “P.M.”
      David Shapiro – “The Divine Comedy”
      John Giorno – [untitled] “A former janitor…”
      John Giorno – [untitled] “Seven Cuban army officers…”
      Robert Avid – “The Sooner the Better”
      Ed Dorn – “An Idle Visitation”
      Ed Dorn – “A Notation on the Evening of November 27, 1966”
      Lewis MacAdams – “Red River, in Memory of Frank O’Hara”
      Lewis Warsh – “All the Earmarks of a Plan”
      Larry Fagin – [untitled] “Well known is the long parade…”
      Alan Kaplan – “Through New Jersey, via the Greyhound”
      Tom Veitch – “You’ve Got a Point There, Pop”
      Lewis MacAdams – “Turn Out the Lining on your All-Time Great Men”
      Michael Brownstein – “Highway 31”
      Kathleen Fraser – “Letters: To Barbara”
      Tony Towle – “Fable”
      Tony Towle – “Poem” [“The bus stops…”]
      Ted Berrigan – “The N.Y. Jets, a movie”
      Jon Cott – “The House”
      Tom Clark – “The Ted Berrigan Story”
      Ted Berrigan – “The Tom Clark Story”