Savoy History: New Worlds

New Worlds 215 (OUT OF PRINT)

Editor: David Britton

Editorial Chutzpah: Michael Butterworth

Publisher: Savoy

Vol. 60, No. 215

1979

b/w illustrated

298mm x 210mm

Soft cover

First publication

44 pp

The Manchester issue of New Worlds magazine, subtitled the 'Crucified Toad edition'. Published in Spring 1979 as a limited edition of 1,000 copies, at a time when the magazine had ceased its run of ten issues as a mass-market paperback and was appearing sporadically in semi-underground form. This 'Savoy Good Taste issue' featured all the usual suspects in and out of the Savoy office at the time: essays from M John Harrison and Michael Butterworth, Michael Moorcock on Harlan Ellison, illustration by Savoy's Liverpool shop manager John Mottershead and Heathcote Williams acting as science correspondent with an essay on Kirlian photography.

Edited by Britton and Butterworth. The PJ Proby quote on the back cover encapsulates an entire philosophy: 'I am an artist and should be exempt from shit.'

Cover by Roland Cat.

Contents:

Non-fiction

Michael Moorcock—'Moorcock on Ellison'
M John Harrison—'Notes From the Ivory Basement'
Andrew Caesar—'New and Other Worlds' (interview with M John Harrison)
Michael Butterworth—'A New Frog—The Origin of Frivolity and the Shape of the New Literature'
Heathcote Williams—'Security Leak From the Future or Things Liberation: Incorporeal Clowning in the Kirlian Circus'

Art

John Mottershead
Eric Stanton—Bondage illustration
David Britton—jacket art for Crucified Toad #11 (spoof), 'Jerry Cornelius' and 'Little Richard'
George Barr—The Bullfrog Bugle
David Bailey—PJ Proby

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