television vs the future of socialism



Plan reprinting Home'Baked edition S Club 7 versus the Anticapitalists. Very limited 'artists book' cover (left) is not new tho costly to reproduce when first published. Technology ten years on enabled availability cheap chapbook with colour-cover. Can also be rekindled ebook. Title free-to-view.



Exciting new twenty-something poets I've seen and heard last five years were teenagers when S Club first appeared on television. May have considered them Monkee-like UK manufactured group from years of millennial adolescence. There are perhaps newer poet-n-tials (just about to start creative writing uni courses) who may actually have been ardent 7-year-old S Club 7 fans.

In performance S Club 7 vs the Anticapitalists intended two-voicer. Sean Bonney and Jeff Hilson did blinding reading with text Writers Forum workshop back in the day.

If S Club 7 present day appears dated (or worse, heads up for late '90ies nostalgia) - read "s" in S Club as abstract factor "x". As X-factored pop idols of near future led nowheres by unreality television light entertainment during crises of broadcasting late capitalism.

& holly woodlawn does it better

A Misremembered Lyric



Song

& denise levertov (1923-1998) & denise riley
does it better

& Holly Pester Does It Better, Michael J. Weller (Home'Baked Books, 2010)




Each day I take ...

DEEPER GEOGRAPHY OF RUBBLE RECONSTRUCTED

RE-READING BODE 'N' BACK 'CAMBRIDGE GROVE' SIGN



... while the foreground looked pleasantly industrial ...

& gertrude stein (1874-1946) does it better

now available from Home'Baked Books by Michael John Weller ...

Playful name-calling score sounded in process and amendment

Third and final chapbook in performative "feminized" trilogy also comprising visual score Redell Olsen's Sharp Exhalations & companion textual Andrea Brady Poetry Lady

place movement sign

BRIGHTON

Concern of older practitioners that 'pure' poetry and art may be infected by the virus of rogue advertisement or embedded product placement was simply treated by younger practitioners as disregard. Ignore junk-slime pop-ups on MySpace. (The Making of Slow Fiction, Home'Baked Books by Michael John Weller, 2010).

"closure is a fiction"

Great quote on Beckwina's blog Revelation Nation. Met three pressfreepressers - Karen Sandhu, Ryan Ormonde & Becky Cremin at first Café 1001 Openned Table last Saturday, June 5th.

A poster sign for event was required and Press Free Press performance text-scroll was loaned by Karen & Ryan with offer of stretching extended taped paper assemblage whilst I hand-lettered sign with colour felt tips.

Sejal Chad is another member of the ensemble. First poets to remind me of a comic book poet team - just my fiction.

Why did old postering skills return so fast & furious? All I could remember that afternoon was Bob Cobbing telling me phonemes were part of consciousness as his father was a commercial signwriter.

Press Free Press also reveal booked poetry doesn't have to be read on every occasion. Why not hang text over a settee & mould paper into utterance fragmenté.

Fics from the sticks began as Space Opera, became Slow Science Fictions, developed into twenty-three titled Slow Fiction. May end up something else in electronic formats.

Like pre-twittered micro-jackanories cut n' pasted from early myspace fic-blogosphere entry.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

3World in 4Time
Current mood: bouncy
Category: Writing and Poetry

Gates's 'Cartoon Kid' tag came from drawing graffiti in high-risk locations. The upper blocks of Sinkmoor were covered in colourful and obscene squiggles. Like his father, Gates was the artistic type.

from "Addingcombe Calling Inspector Pannifer" - Slow Science Fictions no.3
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sneering at 1980s nostalgia

... affiliating myself to generation of Jamming & Youth Kick poets as well as cartooning like crazy for Chainsaw punkzine.
(The Making of Slow Fiction, Home'Baked Books by Michael John Weller, 2010).

A black and white edition of Michael's Collected Chainsaw Cartoons was published April 1996 to celebrate 30 years of the ALP (Association of Little Presses) 1966-1996 - printed on cream card and good quality paper by Bob Cobbing's New River Project.

When Charlie Chainsaw, editor of original UK Chainsaw fanzine saw edition he suggested further mix with repros of original zine's colour covers. A colour climax edition was produced.

Close viewing of May 1996 edition reveals colour covers glued to inside b & w pages (reproduction quality lower than original New River Project printing).

Charlie spray-glued finished colour zine together - ruining his lovely bathroom. The definitive 'home' baked' book I believe.

Copies available during Openned Table's summer of Saturday poetry fun at Café One Thousand and One. See Openned Zine#2 here or Openned page here.

jUNE IS bUSTIN' oUT aLL OVER


Po pollen grain bio-diversit
gametes fertilised

fine flower ovules
bee flour
flower me insennible uggluminate sac

flower
me

the mass-mud
microasporangium pollen basket

the manure being well put down
dibber holes for the legion

O

O
O


opening grapheme LEEK LEGION (Stem Harvest NATURE POEMS, MJ Weller, Writers Forum, 2002).

time to build legions again. main crop messed up 2009. young 'uns look good this year.

detrition found

MORE LYRIC POETRY AFTER SHOREDITCH - FICS FROM THE STICKS


Leo Tolstoy's short stories were collected as twenty-three tales. Beatrix Potter's illustrated world of anthropomorphic characters ran to twenty-three titles. Michelle Yvonne Jolly's tales of schoolboy magician Billy Crombie reached a total of twenty-three adventures.

As MY Jolly is product of MJ Weller's imagination the author's own twenty-three tales have been boxed as a book installation of preposterous lies & miraculous marvels.

MORE LYRIC POETRY AFTER SHOREDITCH - WALTER DE LA MARE MANIA IN PENGE

LYRIC POETRY AFTER SHOREDITCH DELETED SCENES

SHUTTERED


... lyric poetry after Shoreditch ... - Takamisakari Seiken, Pro'un (Geishit, 2010)

English C***ry Tune



Fifty-five seconds PART TWO "Midsummer Morn" from Michael Finnissy's English Country-Tunes (1977) for solo piano.

pâte à physique

improving the image of construction

PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY OF LONDON UNDER CONSTRUCTION


End 2008 experimented making up two e-books, Screen Reading no's 1 and 2, using free-to-use myEBook platform.





Screen Reading 2 (Screening Along In South London) featured two minimovies 'psychogeography of rubble' and 'Cambridge Grove' published 'Factory Girl' post here.

Demolished window-less bicycle factory that so pissed off Pete Butler, and milk depot it was converted into for final days, has been replaced by another window-less structure in postmodern blue and yellow hardboard. Referenced here also, made minimovie and videographs to compare deep topographies then and now. You can hear moving-image maker fall arse over tit as camera is desperately saved from breaking whilst documenting bowed road sign 'Cambridge Grove'.

MADONNA in Verdana = MODANNA

now here's a tale for tonight

London bookartbookshop's second night of good reads from an exhibition 19:30.

Real Mike Weller stand up sit down, stand up sit down, stand up sit down ... launch 'The Making of Slow Fiction' with '... Character & Scene Guide' and twenty-three tales in a box.

freering tonight

London launch of Cleaves international poetry journal 19:30 - 21:00 at bookartbookshop with readings by Alex Davies (for Knives, Forks & Spoons Press), Ulli Freer, Tessa Whitehouse and Stephen Willey.


For next couple weeks London's very own bookart boutique window will appear similar to ...

caution - slow fiction in progress



Planning e-book versions of Slow Fiction blogging EGNEP has made guide to characters and scenes. Scenes are both real and imagined places. All characters taking part are imagined. Some, the writer likes to think, have that contemporary English novelist's sense of feeling, depth and paperback believability. Others are slightly whimsical, some downright cardboardy and comic book.

One conceit in Slow Fiction is the Earth Corporation (EarthCo) , new metaphysical fabulation with entertainment division. So what happens when character Mike Weller walks onto set of live action reality tv? In the fiction EarthCo are making movie at EGNEP location Penge. Will Mick be simpsonized Earth Corporation Entertainment III? Well ... er ... no.

APRIL FOOL



1972. Mike Weller has published character used for Blighty 'underground' comics work - English comix artist character 'Captain' or 'Cap' Stelling.

Internationally, comics were slowly recognized as part of late sixties popular media alongside film, science fiction and rock music. Finding popular North American form through classic newspaper 'Sunday Funnies' and US comic books, it took further twenty years before comics finally found entry in marketing bracket as 'graphic novel'.

In early seventies publishers like Rolling Stone magazine involved with new popular arts media - still index-linked in mind to '60s prosperity - were planning hugely ambitious visual media books. I've blogged here and here on stalled '70s graphic arts projects involving then London-resident and literary Beat guru William S. Burroughs.

Another graphics project that seemingly was never to see light of day made appearance again last year on Maclean's Canada current affairs website after forty-year sleep. Looking for material to feed google-blog and compose hard-copy Beat Generation Ballads text, found telegram from 1973 inviting Mike Weller to view a history of the sixties project entitled 'The Someday Funnies'.



Weller was living in depths of south London without telephone connection. Awoken by telegram boy on motorized bicycle to world outside Penge, Cap Stelling took number 12 bus to counterculture literary agent Ed Victor's London home where author Michel Choquette was commissioning work from UK artists.

Invited to contribute, Stelling discovered almost entire swinging sixties art, fashion, science, media and culture had already been interpreted in graphics and cartoon by celebrities of the day - which included North American comic artists who'd earned celebrity status through attention by pop artists Öyvind Fahlström, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.

Only topic left in programme of 1960s untouched for comic book interpretation, apart from Six-Day 1967 Arab-Israeli war (early 1970s found Egypt stockpiling Soviet weapons with Syria on board) was 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.


from beat generation ballads sequence

POETRY PROFESSORS OF A CERTAIN AGE FONDLY REMEMBER TEENBEAT GENERATION PARTIES



from beat generation ballads sequence

LONDON-TO-BRIGHTON/BRIGHTON-TO-LONDON RUNS post-BRITISH POETRY REVIVAL #14, 77, 208 & 1,893

russell square found

beat generation ballads on youtube

"I'm a farmer now. I'm not playing any rock 'n' roll tonight."

Where's the milk. Shit, is that a fridge or a freezer? Are you tryin' to confuse me, man?

Have you ever tried to be like Bob Dylan making coffee and needing good clean-up after Saturday's party with young up-and-coming beat poet sleeping over in blue leggings, trainers & woolly socks.

beat generation ballads on youtube

Stimulus Respond

'death god smiles' from beat generation ballads sequence

A LEGEND IN HIS OWN MIND

By 1990 beat generation bass poet Jet Harris had recovered from alcoholism associated with his celebrity decline.

An early improvising teenage jazz musician - Harris named 'the Shadows' - template 1950s four-piece English instrumental brand-visual sound-matrix for countless Brit beat groups after.

In 1990, with support of Dave Wheatley, Dave Holbrook, Maggie Holbrook and the Jet Harris Fan Club - a self-published cassette of Harris's 1980s recordings, A Fist Full of Strings (and a bit of chat!), was sent to fans, including Peter Butler and his wife, Lisa.



During the '80s Peter was occupying himself whilst living in Denmark by compiling and customizing cassette tapes with extensive documentary notes, then sending them to rock 'n' roll fans worldwide by snail mail.



Homemade editions of music with customized card & note insets included my favourite, an erotic piece of typed-up & treated work by Pete and Lisa Butler - the reconstructed copy of an obscure 1959 poplit paperback book by Jet Harris and poet Royston Ellis - Driftin' with Cliff Richard. An old Charles Buchan pulp publication transformed into a beautiful artists book.



Excluded from 2009 fiftieth year Cliff Richard and the Shadows reunion concert celebrations, Jet Harris made live return in 1999 concert with Bruce Welch's Shadows. Welch introduces bass poet as "A legend in his own mind."

from beat generation ballads sequence

DON'T TURN TV ON - CLASS KNOTS UNTIED IN SCREEN GODDESS ART HOUSE REALITY SHOW

In his 1973 biography Marilyn, Norman Mailer excerpts Fred Lawrence Guiles' Norma Jean: The Life of Marilyn Monroe. Black & white 'B' picture playing alongside Hollywood technicolor feature with teenagers Bill Wyman and Den Stutley outside Sherrick's outfitters south London in account of screen goddess visit England 1957 making The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier.

Guiles' quote in Mailer book set in constrained smaller font -

... a group of teddy boys invited her to join them for a bit of fish and chips in Penge, a London suburb.

'But it is comedy,' Mailer adds. 'For the Millers are tied in class knots.'

Talking taxonomy of textuality. Language within the node. Literary performance in MOO-space. Node-linked text and code. Lyric 'I'. Here's example - 1980s UK bandname Frankie Goes To Hollywood inspired by 1940s show biz headline on Frank Sinatra becoming first bobby soxing American Idol.

Constrained pattern rules of written reality tv auditions with youtube html link reveals forgotten story. Frankie goes to Hollywood but no Oscar Christ. Frankie Vaughan is star of Britain's Got Talent 1955. This Frankie as Liverpool-born as Billy Fury, Ringo Starr & Holly Johnson. Described in Let's Make Love (1960) trailer as 'the singing idol of England'.

Frankie plays English civil servant threatened with 1950s end-of-tv crooning redundancy and public sector cuts. Pointing at screen audience with Harold Wilson's unlit pipe Frankie opens futuristic word score negotiations for Sixties counterculture predicting future Liverpool beat invasion. All you need is love tweets screen goddess relieving Frankie's class-stuffed shirt and bow tie. Veteran actor Wilfred Hyde-White looks on as arbitrating senior civil servant. Yves Montand negotiates European art house tv futures using OuLiPo constraint poetically, and politically, in strictly come off-camera tea dance.

LONDON-TO-BRIGHTON/BRIGHTON-TO-LONDON RUNS OF THE BRITISH POETRY REVIVAL #9, 72 & 103

JUST ROOM FOR ONE INSIDE, MEESTER BURROUGHS

1968. Comic-book artist Cap Stelling notes familiar refrain in William Burroughs' introduction to Corgi paperback The Naked Lunch.

Room for One More Inside, Sir.

Bell ring old black and white film. Like film's influential episode featuring ventriloquist and dummy - original riff appeared in the Cavalcanti and Crichton 'tales of unexpected' movie Dead of Night. Line first uttered by Miles Malleson as Charon-like transporter of doomed souls, witnessed by featured player able to observe, yet avoid, fatal predestination. Imagined visual association: young Jeff Nuttall hallucinating older Jeff Nuttall played by Malleson - another writer-dramatist and cameo actor.

1973. Cap Stelling, waiting in Whitehall for number 12 bus from Shepherd's Bush to depths of Penge - catches sight of St Louis paperback writer reading menu displayed on restaurant window near Great Scotland Yard. Burroughs is chuckling at contents ... yes, around quarter-past-four in the afternoon ...

Stelling's submission to The William S. Burroughs Scrapbook, an ambitious full-colour Seventies visual art project not to reach publication was drawn on lined paper in blue felt-tip pen, cut from lined exercise book -


from beat generation ballads sequence

BEAT GENERATION BASS POET WITH SPANISH LICK

VIRTUAL RED EXERCISE BOOK

In a Foreign City - poem by Elizabeth Jennings (1926 - 2001)

yellowing text scan Penguin Modern Poets 1 (Penguin Books, 1962)



jennings indexed at poetic justice hyperlink click to in a foreign city screen read

youtube city movement televisual association



from beat generation ballads sequence

WHILE THE FOREGROUND LOOKED PLEASANTLY INDUSTRIAL


Found photographic print stirred images southeast London's light industrial estates 1960s borders of Bromley and Lewisham. Location date source origin image not known - unlikely its southeast London. Found print twenty years ago anyway. Image provoked first scribblings written twenty years before that.

Early jottings awful although medium, the 'exercise book' with feint lined pages, were blogform at time. Filled with notes and drawings, publication in electronic blogform adds visual reproduction of text. Extract made with fountain pen and blue ink. Quink-textual.


When I studied English Literature one of my tutors, Mike Holly, told me story. As former English teacher in secondary education he was curious about one boy diligently writing at back of class through every lesson he tried to teach. He eventually confronted pupil to find opened James Bond paperback on desk. Boy was copying Ian Fleming word for word into series of exercise books. "Why are you doing this?"
"Because it makes the book mine."




from beat generation ballads sequence

'POETRY IS INDISPENSABLE - IF ONLY I KNEW WHAT FOR.'

Jean Cocteau said that. Cocteau is quoted in opening to Ernst Fischer's first chapter on 'The Function of Art' in Pelican original The Necessity of Art.

Factory girl Peter Butler was born at the Mothers' Hospital Hackney April 24 1957.

Adopted, brought up, and schooled in southeast London - UK secondary comprehensive system during early 1970s seemed to have failed Pete completely. Into fights with male English teachers, kicked out, then rounds of building sites and local factories at fifteen. Don't understand cos Pete could write what he meant, spell and put apostrophes in right place most of the time.

Employment for boys and girls looking for more permanent employment could be found health, postal and transport sectors. More temporary work found in shops, offices, warehouses and small factories dotted over urban junkscape of suburban redevelopment.

Pete eventually found work building cycle frames for Holdsworthy in Anerley. He enjoyed open-air working encouraged in good weather. This changed when works moved to custom-built factory without windows at Cambridge Grove demolished for warehouse-building after years as milk depot.

Back in the day I said to Pete I needed to make art go to work and he looked at me and said, "Like Elvis Presley?"


Yes. Just like Elvis.

from beat generation ballads sequence

1970s VISUAL-TEXT EXPERIMENTS THAT DIDN'T DO JOB

Publisher Graham Keen planned British 'Underground' comic starring paperback writer William Burroughs collaboration for comic character "Mr Hart". London St Martin's School of Art student Malcolm McNeill was selected for job.


It was known among publishers and editors Bill didn't do "lunch". Innocence and Experience were also to learn Bill didn't like comics. This was 1969-1970 when US underground comix seemed appropriate milieu for radical counterculture artwork. A compromise was reached between publisher, writer and illustrator. McNeill produced work in narrative-caption style of Flash Gordon and Prince Valiant 'Sunday Funnies' adventure strips Burroughs remembered from 1930s.

On return USA Burroughs acquainted himself with Kansas beat generation and work of S Clay Wilson.

When Burroughs lived in London early 1970s paperback writer enjoyed "snack" with Mottram. All photographs apart from cover snap apparently failed to process successfully.

Aloes Books, London 1975.

Allen Fisher writes about other contexts for Burroughs' visual-text production here.

Cyclops disbanded after issue 4. American underground comix found UK audience early 70s within pages of Mick Farren's and Edward Barker's Nasty Tales and Felix Dennis's cOZmic comics.

from beat generation ballads sequence

'BEAT SCENE' TEXT TREATED FOR VISUAL ASSOCIATIONS






'visual associations' from beat generation ballads sequence

'Funny Valentine' drawing from beat generation ballads sequence

1969 DAN DARE'S FIRST DEATH


Forty years before beat-lit supergroup Moorcock, Sinclair & Moore played standing-room-only London concert to new audience young psychogeographers - Michael Moorcock's free-to-use pop anti-hero character 'Jerry Cornelius' appeared as comic-strip in International Times (it or IT) 1969. Archive gives access to all IT's 'Cornelius' comic serials from hippie era.

Moorcock-edited New Worlds magazine remains little known driver '60's cultural revolutions East and West depicted in fiction, poetry and graphics. 'Jerry Cornelius' was visually represented by Malcolm Dean in black & white lo-fi. The it strip, initially scripted by Moorcock and drawn by Dean in his individualized style coincided with final issues of Marcus Morris' exemplar full-colour Eagle comic.


Besides, 'Jerry Cornelius cartoon' wasn't comparable with other juvenile adventure or funny weeklies, US comic books, nor syndicated daily newspaper cartoons and serials.

Jeff Nuttall's and Mal Dean's visual poetics became part of newer narrative form (commercially marketed twenty years later as 'graphic novel') .

Graham Keen, member of it's editorial collective heard voice of Blake with idea for comic book imprint Innocence and Experience. As with poetic Children of Albion - comics for the 'Underground' in Britain emerged.

Word got out metropolitan scene paperback writer and cut-up practitioner William S. Burroughs - My Own Mag, International Times contributor, Underground Press supporter/subscriber, London resident - sought visual collaborators for new and perhaps older work.

Invisible generation British illustrators/comic artists excited.

Five years later Allen Ginsberg figured Burroughs needed superhero rescue from London. Hippie generation poet considered psychogeographic capital of Blighty may have done aging beat writer's head in.

from beat generation ballads sequence

SUNFLOWER SUTRA

Beat generation became invisible generation merry old England 1966.

Bob Dylan played Manchester Free Trade Hall looking like poet John Cooper Clarke 1979. Donovan have-you-ever-tried-to-be-like-Bob Dylan-1965 closed '66 with Sunshine Superman.

Beatles produced Revolver. Paul McCartney helped start English underground paper International Times (it or IT). This recently completed internet archive is remarkable catalogue counterculture activity UK 1966-1986, documenting hippie & punk eras up to 1980s absolute beginners beat surrender, plus one-off anarchist anti-Tory shout 1994.

BEAT SURRENDER REMEMBERING JEFF NUTTALL

Jeff Nuttall died January 2004. Through work in 1960s International Times (it or IT) and writers forum press - visual, verbal, c(art)oon, zine collapsed in singular form. His pioneering Physiodelics, My Own Mag, Oscar Christ and the Immaculate Conception often came from different beat inspirations & source materials to North American underground comix with origins in US pulps, tijuana bibles (8-page sex cartoons), sick humor and horror comics.

Nuttall's poetry and prose fiction wasn't populist. But as broadsheet critic in emerging multicultural poetry scene he produced puff-friendly observations for poets' work including a young Bill Griffiths.

Nuttall's urgent spidery style of drawing was conventional in terms of technique. Yet every scratch of Jeff's pen and splodge of ink seemed to represent paraliterary challenge to text-heavy editorial regimes determined to edit out marks interfering, mocking, obscuring, or not doing job in illustrating body verbal.

Bob Cobbing's writers forum published last of Nuttall's poetics supper moves unlight, viper along with Jeff's own chapbook compilation of 1960s reprints (image above) in March 2002.

Jeff Nuttall enjoyed parallel careers as teacher in secondary modern and art school education, and as actor in several tv sit-coms and films. As well as a definitive Friar Tuck he played Dr Mikhail Arkov in James Bond movie The World Is Not Enough. He plays dead for most of his time on screen. This is movie where Robbie Coltrane plays 'Zukovsky'. And as Jeff Hilson speculates - a Nuttall suggestion to script-doctoring team?

from beat generation ballads sequence

Shit dovie has been meroved by the ruse.

MADE IN HACKNEY: BEAT GENERATION HISTORY TUTORIAL


Cheap and nasty, poorly written, badly drawn and painted - US sex, crime, humor and horror comics published under English imprints were readily available to children from sweet shops in UK after the Second World War.

backside to Unwarned published in South London (undated)

A moral panic in both USA and Britain during the early 1950s resulted in censorship.

Humour Variety No. 171, Micron Publications, Sussex (undated post-decimal reprint)

A Christian vicar from Lancashire, Marcus Morris, divined to conceive Eagle for boys and Girl for girls.

Reverend Morris' publications were UK technological revolution in comics. Glossy gravure print demanded high quality colour and black & white artwork for mechanical reproduction. Produced new generation of commercial artists. Only best science fiction writers Arthur C Clarke scripting futurism from shores of Blighty.

In US, sex and crime stories horror, satirical humor - read by beats 'n' hipsters inspired Mad magazine and late 1960s 'Underground' comics or 'comix'.

Hackney-based publisher L Miller produced compilations of lost 1950s horror and humor. Still sold to children in 1969 English backstreet sweet shops when Children of Albion "Poetry of the 'Underground' in Britain" was available on high street paperback stalls and Britain's beat generation had Blake's eyes in their hands.

VOICE OF BLAKE

WB Yeats heard voice of Blake. Allen Ginsberg heard voice of Blake. Michael Horovitz heard voice of Blake.


No beat generation beginner Royston Ellis. Perhaps he never heard voice of Blake. Anselm Hollo, Lee Harwood and Tom Raworth though. One Barry Tebb contribution 'School Smell' and seven from Ted Milton including "Coleman's 'Tomorrow is the Question'".

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE

Mrs Butler will never be able to listen to Elvis Presley again as long as she lives.

Lisa and Peter Butler bought a subscription to Tears in the Fence from issue one. For twenty years (1984-2004) Tears was the only English-based publication (Dorset) Pete regularly read apart from Elvis Monthly (Nottingham). He also wrote for Elvis Monthly.

'The Forgotten Gems' © Peter Butler, Elvis Monthly No 296, September 1984

Apparently Pete had volunteered views of both himself and his missus on sexual identity and desire for the King as research project for Elvis Monthly. Google search (peter butler + elvis presley) lists this Cambridge University Press doc as abstract with html full version readable online (scroll Page 11 for Butler reference).



A hand-written letter from Tears to Peter, dated 16th October 1993, enclosing issue 11, is bursting with as much encouragement a combined reminder of subscription renewal and editorial rejection can muster -

Please keep sending your poems. One or two have come close to being accepted ... By the way, one day I would like to do a music issue and will contact you for a contribution ...


'Ballad of Lisa and Pete' from beat generation ballads sequence