Data Dump 100+; Summaries of all issues of 'Data Dump' SF Newsleter from issue 100

DATA DUMP 100+
Summaries of all issues of 'Data Dump' SF Newsletter from issue 100
DATA DUMP (ISSN 1359 2 041) - A Newsletter of SF Poetry
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DATA DUMP 101
A typed 8 page summary of the previous 100 Data Dumps! Also, (still) unanswered questions from previous issues and a list of American and Canadian SF poets, who've been published in the UK.
DATA DUMP 102
Includes a list of small press mags that have survived after 30 years, a fine bit of pith from Mike Johnson, John M. Ford obituary, an article on SF music and opera, and a plug for a Hawkwind release in the margin!
DATA DUMP 103
Thought-quotes, Dune & Norstrilia, string theory, Nigel Kneale/Quatermass, and SF (opera-free) music continued. Plus, Viking ghosts!
DATA DUMP 104
More on Nigel Kneale. A.C. Evans featured, and lots of reviews, including one of Cardinal Cox's Old Scarlett's Book Of Impracticle Bats.
DATA DUMP 105
Features on poet John Heath-Stubbs, classic remints - Homer (the Greek writer, not the yella fella) treatments, and more genre music examples.
DATA DUMP 106
Data Dump Award '07 Nominations, a Pope's penis poem, and Purple People Eater.
DATA DUMP 107
Data Dump Award '07 Short List, Lee Hoffman obituary, W.H. Auden and William Blake anniversaries, Edgar Allan Poe as a character.
DATA DUMP 108
Data Dump Award '07 - Winner, 2nd, 3rd Places announced (see below). Not forgetting The Cosmographs, and that "Newton among poets", Percy Bysshe Shelley.
DATA DUMP 109
John Milton, William Shakespeare, Star*Line, The Burglars's Bone, Bokonon, Goldilocks planet discovery!
DATA DUMP 110
Bardathon, John Francis Haines reviews The Tempest, Hawkwind: Do Not Panic review, and Are Nursery Rhymes DF article?
DATA DUMP 111
The Return of Merlin, the Total Lunar Eclipse of March, '07, Review of Cardinal Cox's The Night Land, and Sunra Recordings.
DATA DUMP 112
Spanish Ignotus Awards, In The Egg poem, The Seven Hills Of Earth, Irish king Sweeney, and the first live music in space revealed!
DATA DUMP 113
This Way Up mourned, Worst Poem in the English Language, Half-Demon, Half-Elf, nappy wearing astronaut incident!
DATA DUMP 114
Free verse werewolves, Aurore Australe, A Collection of Collaborative Poetry reviews, Beowulf's dragon, and Siouxsie Sioux's dad milked snakes revelation!
DATA DUMP 115
A Q and A special with Drew Morse, this issue also includes a list of important SFanzines and SFanzine poets pf the 1930s to 1960s. Plus, Annals Of Arkya article.
DATA DUMP 116
Foods Out There, Novels Embedding Poetry, oddest Data Dump SF poetry factoid ever?!
DATA DUMP 117
John Cage pithy Thought-Quote Extra, review of Cardinal Cox's Sowerberry Harvest, and H. P. Lovecraft inspired music.
DATA DUMP 118
Derek Pickles tribute, Beowulf bonanza, Your Own Ghosts and Vespula Vanishes reviews.
DATA DUMP 119
Newton & The Striking Apple review, Americana, Robert Mannyng, Beowulfing on!
DATA DUMP 120
Interesting facts about William Blake's lack of success in his lifetime (a genius ahead of his time is a recurring theme in literature, art, and music, of course), Peter Ackroyd's Poe: A Life Cut Short review, Data Dump 2008 Award Preliminary Selections, Hawkfan mag review, Gilgamesh, William "the sadly neglected" Dearden, the eccentric John Whiteside Parsons, and a summary of The Observer Book Of Space list of Top 10 songs about space - a very contentious list of space songs from the rock era.
DATA DUMP 121
Fascinating bibliography by Drew Morse on genre poetry in 1930s US fanzines.
DATA DUMP 122
Data Dump 2008 Award Short List, reviews of the anthology Fantaverse and Edwin Morgan's From Saturn To Glasgow. Arthur C. Clarke, Ken Slater, Lee Hoffman remembered.
DATA DUMP 123
Data Dump 2008 Award - Winner, 2nd, 3rd Places announced (see below). Early 1940s Nepenthe magazine (issues 1 & 2), The Atlantean - Collected, Fairtyale Graveyard reviews. Curious Kurt Vonnegut info.
DATA DUMP 124
Simone B. Heaney's Beowulf, Elsewhen Unbound trail of poetry in early US Sfanzines, John Brunner, Flights From The Iron Moon (Hilltop Press) now available from efanzines.com.
DATA DUMP 125
Orpheus & Eurydice bonanza, Cardinal Cox's The Shaver Mysteries reviewed, Jack Speer obit. Fascinating theories - Gilgamesh not the oldest epic, and stars, planets, and the Moon making music only departing souls can hear. Also, Rupert Brooke's love potion no. 9...
DATA DUMP 126
Jack Speer's Konan reviewed, detailed Thomas M. Disch appreciation/obituary, '79 Futurama Festival, (rock band) Queen Metropolis link, Rupert Brooke topped by American blue man!
DATA DUMP 127
William Blake, The Tempest, Old Rossum's Book Of Practical Robots review, and a review of Cardinal Cox's The Devil's Own Music.

Winner: "Marriage of Powers" by ANDREW NIGHTINGALE (10th Muse #14)
Joint Second: "The Oracle Corporation" by F.J. WILLIAMS (Bard #48); "Time Zones" by ELIZABETH JODI WOODWARD (4th Dimension #11)
Shared Third: "Probe" by BRYN FORTEY (The Bards #16); "Space Aliens At The Burger King" by SIMON ROBSON (Urinal Jelly Babies); "Untitled Russian Haiku" by D.J. WESTON (Awen #40)

Winner: "Breakdown On The Galactic Highway" by DAVE PERRY (Paper Cuts #2)
Shared Second: "Planet Of The Apes Archive" by CHRISTOPHER BARNES (Bard #54); "Frankenstein/Bride Of Frankenstein" by CARDINAL COX (Handshake #69); "The Death Of Spiderman" by AUSTIN McCARRON (Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow anthology)
Joint Third: "Adieu" by SUSIE REYNOLDS (Chimera #6); "Slow Cooker" by PETER E. PRESFORD (Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, Malfunction Panthology)