Savoy History: Concentrate

Concentrate (OUT OF PRINT)

Editor/Publisher: Michael Butterworth

Contributing Editor: Juli Walsh

1968

Illustrated

297mm x 210mm

Soft cover

First publication

4pp

Condensed writing inspired by JG Ballard/William Burroughs/Jorge Luis Borges. Butterworth's 'Concentrate' stories—collaborations with JG Ballard who had 'condensed' them à la William Burroughs from longer Butterworth manuscripts—had appeared in New Worlds. The concept was expanded as a separate publication of 'condensed writings'. Optimistically, a fortnightly frequency was planned, under the sui generis imprint Mwangaza Enterprises (Swahili for 'Dawn'). Only one issue appeared. Some copies sold through shops, some privately, but most had to be distributed free as a ' A new kind of fiction publication' with New Worlds # 185 and Ambit magazine. Served me right.

Contents:

Words

Alex Kernaghan—'A Phial of Darkness'
John Sladek—'In the Distance'
Bill Welch—'Gnath'
John H Clark—'Phyllis Gore-Dunkley'
Harry Hoogstraten—'It Started to Rain'
Charles Platt—'Undream'
James Sallis—'I Just Looked Up'
Stephen Staindale—'Cut-out Poem No1'
Gordon Abbott—'Metric Man'
Anself Hollo—'Rooms'
John Wood—'The Stroke and the House'
John H Clark—'A Poem Made From Non-Sentences'
Alexis Lykiard—'Cabbage White'
Harry Hoogstraten—'Poem'
John H Clark—'The Day I Shot the Pond'
Bob Franklyn—'The Ambyss 1: Pellet'
John Whitaker—'In Here in This Room'
Tina Morris—'from: The Trap'
Stephen Greenhalgh—'Concentrate Cut-Up'
Alexis Lykiard—'Instead of a Postcard'
Edward Poe (Michael Butterworth)—'A Marijuana Smoker's Lament'

Art

Stephen Greenhalgh—cover

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