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Science Fiction Poetry - Introductory Factsheet by Steve Sneyd
Steve Sneyd Delves Into the
World of Ghosts of the Fens Steve's epic Crowland poem
The Poetry of Brian Aldiss by
Steve Sneyd
DATA DUMP 100+ Steve Sneyd Data Dump Articles: Nigel Kneale John Heath-Stubbs |
booksmusicfilmstv.com Science Fiction & Fantasy Pages Index
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.
DATA DUMP AWARD '07 FOR SCIENCE FICTION POETRY (UK-PUBLISHED IN 2006)
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)
DATA DUMP AWARD '08 FOR SCIENCE FICTION POETRY (UK-PUBLISHED IN 2007)
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)
Steve
Sneyd Books available from Amazon.co.uk
Short
Circuits/Bad News from the Stars/Two Books in One (Ocean View
Doubles) In Coils of Earthen Hold (Salzburg
Studies in English Literature) The
Pennine Triangle (Othername Press Poets) Neolithon (Kite Modern Poetry S.)
Fierce
Far Suns: Proto-SF and SF Poetry in America from the 1750s to the
1960s (Data Dump) Laying Siege to Tomorrow: Poetry in UK
SFanzines, the 1930s to 1950s (Data Dump)
Elsewhen
Unbound: Poetry in American Sfanzines - The 1930s to 1960s
Dreaming Scryers,True Deceivers: Six
Science Fiction Poets Road at Oxford Spidergrams
Medusa: A Poetry Anthology
Entropies
and Alignments: Poetry in UK SFanzines, the 1960s (Data Dump)
War of the Words: A Sampler of Science
Fiction Pomes Ape
into Pleiades (Data Dump) In Space's Belly: Poetry in UK SFanzines
Etc., the 1970s (Data Dump)
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