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DATA DUMP 1-99
Summaries of issues 1-99 of 'Data Dump' SF Newsletter
Summaries of most issues of 'Data Dump' SF Newsletter from issue 100
DATA DUMP (ISSN 1359 2 041) - A Newsletter of SF Poetry
1 - NOVEMBER 1991
Orbiting a Data Dump Part 1. A preliminary list of British speculative poetry collections and anthologies - SF/F/H, also by pros/well-known SFanziners whether or not content genre, and NEPS - novels embedding poetry.
2 - 1992
BGOO - Gems Beyond Our Ocean aka Orbiting a Data Dump2. Poetry by US SF pro novelists: collections, anthology and magazine appearances. Likewise for US speculative poets who had edited anthologies, or who'd had work also in UK mags.
3 - 1992
Orbiting Data Dumps Revisited aka ODD 3. More UK poetry-writing SF pros, incl. where collections not known, more NEPs, more anthologies. More US incl. more poetry-writing US SF fic pros. Explained category omissions, et Arthurian.
4 - 1992
The Datamass Experiment aka Data Dump 4. Reasons for holographic - handwritten - text. Articles re genre poetry, UK Sfanzines/little magazines, 1930s-1980s.
5 - 1992
Under the Moons of Datadump, aka ODD 5. Relevant articles in Star*Line, SF Poetry ASSociation mag, 1978-1992. Articles in other US mags, 1970-1990.
6 - 1993
Data Dump 6 - (first use of catchphrase "the miracle of misfiling"!). Correcting omissions from US articles list. Sixty-six quotes about SF/speculative poetry.
7 - 1993
Nuking a Data Dump aka ODD 7. Poems of nuclear apocalypse - aka nukecaustic poems - in UK sfzs/SF littles, 1971-1993. Anthology egs, UK/US, and other US egs.
8 - 1993
Data dump 8 - instances omitted from nukecaust poetry lists in 7. Egs from "mainstream" mags. Mention of opera of Harry Martinson's SF epic Aniara, re nukecaust elements.
9 - 1994
Update on UK collections/anthologies. Other reader-supplied egs of SF/genre theme operas. Cartoon commentators get nearer subsequent standard snailien look.
10 - DECEMBER 1994
Reviews (in rest of Index r/vs) of Joyce Worley Katz colln "Wind", Fred Beake litcrit "The Imaginations of Mr Shelley", Robert Sheppard narrative poem "Logos on Kimons". More genre opera. Mini-summary, Contents of issues 1-9.
11 - 1995
First separate column for genre opera. First time issue number included within snailiens Data & Dump exchange. Stated D. F. Lewis HPList epic "The Egniscomicon" unpublished.
12 - AUGUST 1995
SFanzine humorous pomes list. Mini/vs/ ia of Brian Aldiss "At The Caligula Hotel" (Sinclair Stevensoon) and Anchor Books anth "Out of This World". SF music 1st full page.
13 - JANUARY 1996
Pomes list contd. Poets as protagonists in SF.
14 - 1996
Mini mission statement re DD. Yet more pomes, now up to 1990s. Supplementary info re "Flights From the Iron Moon", Hilltop Press book on poetry in UK SFz/genre littles in 1980s.
15/16
"Star Spangled Shadows". First double issue, explored poetry in US Sfanzines from 1930-1960s and related US topics.
17 - OCTOBER 1996
SF/near Sf poems in UK genre/"mainstream" littles/SFzs in 1st half of 1990s. Walt Willis genre clerihews.
18 - JANUARY 1997
More poets protagonists in SF.
19/20
Fierce Far Suns. This double an impressionistic overview of protoSF and SF poetry in the US, the 1950s to 1960s.
21 - JUNE 1997
22 - SEPTEMBER 1997
Reviews of Jonathan Vos Post's on-line "Encyclopedia of SF & F Poetry".
23/24
"Laying Siege To Tomorrow". Poetry in UK SFanzines, the 1930s-1950s.
25 - JANUARY 1998
R/vs of Leonard "Spock" Nimoy's "poetry" colln, and mid 19th C Oz verse play "The Burlesque of Frankenstein".
26 - NOVEMBER 1998
More poet-protagonists. Mags reviewing SF poetry. A must-repeat quote: "all poetry being a putting the infinite within the finite... in asking for more ultimates you must accept less mediates... nor expect that a Druid stone circle will be traced for you with as few breaks to the eye as the North Crescent and South Crescent that go together so cleverly in many a suburb" - Robert Browning, Dec 10, 1855, to Ruskin.
27 - MAY 1998 (Misnumbered 25, tho Data & Dump got it right in their dialogue)
Start of Corrs & Clars (Corrections & Clarifications) section. Letter from D. F. Levis saying that Egniscomicon (ref DD 11 item) HAD been published, in an edition of two copes, each different. R/v of Blake's "An Island in the Moon" (Purple Mouth P reprint). SF poetry resources on Net.
28/29
"Ape into Pleiades" - bio/biblio/egs of poetry of pioneering US SF poet Lilith Lorraine.
30 - JULY 1998
Addenda/corrigenda of "Star Spangled Shadows".
31 - SEPTEMBER 1998
R/v of Karl S. Guthke's "The Last Frontier - Imagining Other Worlds From the Copernican Revolution to Modern Science Fiction" (Cornell UP, 1990) re proto SF poetry covered.
32/33
"Kin to the Far Beyond" - poetry in US SFanzines, the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
34/35
"Entropies and Alignments" - Poetry in UK SFanzines, the 1960s.
36 - DECEMBER 1998 (Again misnumbering, as 24!)
R/v of David Lunde's "Blues for Port City" (Mayapple P, US). Reader complained of dumbing down of poetry in Asimov's. Beowulf/Blake items. US poet Dana Gioia, librettist of opera of "Nosferatu", quoted: "Opera... the only living form of poetic drama.. more at home with myth than with naturalism... the ritual enactment of myth."
37 - FEBRUARY 1999
Quoted autobio of post Sean Russell Friend, on face of it a real-life Jerry Cornelius. Noted 30th anniv of first poem in OZ SFzine The Mentor. Cult of bogus St. Nemo.
38/39
"In Space's Belly" - Poetry in UK Sfanzines and Little Magazines, the 1970s.
40/41
"Gnawing Medussa's Flesh" - bio/discography of Robert Calvery by David Jones, overview of Calvert's poetry by Sneyd.
42 - JUNE 1999
HPL Harvest of Lovecraft-related items. US 30s-on SFs poet/editor's Unsung Hero award from hometown Mayor. News J. F. Haines/L. A. Hood translation of 14th C Mannyng protogenre poem "Accursed Dancers" published in Litterae, US. Obit of Buck Coulson, long time ed of US poetry-using SFz Yandro. Items re number 42 is Douglas Adams' answer to life, universe, and everything, and Rule 4 2in Alice in Wonderland final trial scene, that all persons more than a mile high to leave the court.
43 - SEPTEMBER 1999
New translation of "Aniara" published. Noted Peter Presford's Malfunction Press genre poetry since 1973, ie over 25 years. Cardinal cox r/v of "Zero Gravity - A Space Requiem", radio re astronauts etc incl Gwyneth Lewis verse.
44 - DECEMBER 1999
List of poet-scientists, noting intro to Keith Allen Daniels' colln "Satan Is A Mathematician" (Anamnesis P) incl. US egs. Bruce Boston given Grand Master title by Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA) officers.
45 - MARCH 2000
More poet-scientists. R/vs incl. I.A. new poetry, John Kinsella "Visitants" - Outback UFO encounter poems, last print issue of Aural Innovations space music mag pre going Motion - a cosmic dream voyage - and SF one, featuring "six million dollar" cyberised monkey, by "Dome dithyrambist" Simon Armitage. Clark Ashton Smith (CAS) poems now available on Net.
46 - EASTER 2000
Bumper size Corrs & Clars. Classic eg of unwise prediction - that #50 wd be NEPs special. (Remains a distant aspiration 54 issues on!) E/v of 1957 UK filks - SF folk songs - anth "song's From Space", ed Terry Jeeves.
47/48
"A Word In Your Eye" - an Introduction to the Graphic Poem: majority of egs discussed genre.
49 - JUNE 2000
Obits of Alex Comfort - re his William Blake-universe set novel "Tetrarch", Joy Hibbert, who published many poetry-using SFzs in 1980s, and John Sladek. More "Star Spangled Shadows" addenda. Lengthy complaint about DD review of his mag from Michael Grendelwulf Pendragon, included as loose insert.
50 - SEPTEMBER 2000
Review of openair one-man P. D. Brown performance of Beowulf in that storyteller's own translation, at Oakleaf Camp in Dales. News: HPL now in Penguin Classics, Edwin Morgan got Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
51 - DECEMBER 2000
Obits Ken Cheslin, L. Sprague de Camp, Emil Petaja, Keith Roberts, re their various genre poetry connections. News Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" now operaised.
52 - FEBRUARY 2001
R/v of Peter Kalu's SF NEP "Black Star Rising" (X Press). Sladek's poems in "Holding Your Eight Hands" (HY8H) anth described. Roundup of UK SFanzine poems in 1990s.
53 - APRIL 2001
Obit Adrien Henri, line of whose gave HY8H its title. Addenda on "In Space's Belly". Mir burnup noted. R/v of article by US SF epic poet Frederick Turner and neurologist Ernst Poppel, "Poetic Neural Action - A Psychological Profile of Metered Poetry": form stimulating left brain/right brain links.
54 - JUNE 2001
R/v L. A. Hood colln "Luck Is What You Make It", is incl reprint of "Cursed Dancers" translation collab.
55 - AUGUST 2001
Byron's plan to divert threatening cosmic objects from Earth using steam-powered catapults. Listing of poems in overseas (other than US) SFanzines.
56 - OCTOBER 2001
"A Word in Your Eye"/"Entropies and Alignments" addenda. Catchup on in US SFanzines.
57 - JANUARY 2002
Noted two SF poems in Guardian Saturday Review. R/v of Spring 1985 SF Poetry Special of Canadian litmag Arc.
58 - MARCH 2002
Obit of US SF poet Keith Allen Daniels, and r/v of "2001 - A Science Fiction Poetry Anthology" (Anamnesis), edited by KAD just before his death. Also r/v of Brian Aldisss' "A Plutonian Monologue" (Frogmore P). News out-of-print Hilltop Press book re Robert Calvert, "Gnawing Medusa's Flesh", now archived on http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue18/medusa.html
59 - JUNE 2002
R/vs "Spaceways", 1986 Oxford UP schools SF poetry anth, and "Star-Sea Songs", 1975 filk anth from Flanders.
60 - AUGUST 2002
Another HPL catch-up r/v of Hawfan (Brian Tawn's Hawkwind fz) 25th anniversary issue. Quote publisher that only 5% of poetry sold contemporary, of that 65% Heaney, of that mostly his Beowulf. (ie majority of such sales genre.)
61 - OCTOBER 2002
Listed Sneyd published genre poetry articles.
62 NOVEMBER 2002
R/vs of poetry in posthumous John Sladek "Maps" and Quentin Crisp poetry in short-lived prozine New Frontiers.
63 - JANUARY 2003
News on-line anthology of 10 years of Handshake SF poetry now on House of Moonlight Net site, and r/v of Handshake's 10th anniversary issue, #50.
64 - MARCH 2003
Biblio of poetry of US pro/editor Janet Fox. Obits of US poet/speculative poetry mag Kinesis etc editor Virginia Kidd, and Don Franson, donor to DD of early US genre poetry mags incl Starlanes. List of SARM, Romania, poetry publications. News Cardinal Cox new Peterborough Poet Laureate.
65 - MAY 2003
R/v by Cardinal Cox of Bryan D. Dietrich's collection "Krypton Nights".
66 - AUGUST 2003 Peter Redgrove obit. Catchup of SFanzine filks, pomes. R/v Blair H. Allen's "Wine of Starlight" (Cerulean P).
67 - 2003
More on Redgrove. R/vs of Brian Aldiss' "The Dark Sun Rises" (Avernus Media), and K. V. Bailey's essay on Ken MacLeod's poetry, in SF Foundation book re MacLeod. Obit of Louis Russell Chauvenet, US Sfz poet/inventor of word fanzine.
68 - JANUARY 2004
Obit for UK SFanzine poet Beryl M. Mercer.
69 - FEBRUARY 2004
Preliminary list of long-lasting genre poetry mags. Was US SF poet Drew Morse's recent PhD in SF Poetry a first? Obit of Giovanni Malito, Ireland-based poet/editor of The Brobdignagian Times, incl its SF poetry special issue.
70 - MAY 2004
More on long-lasting genre poetry mags. Edwin Morgan chosen as Makar (Poet Laureate) of Scotland.
71 - 2004
Provisional timeline of proto Sf/SF poetry, from Gilgamesh to present.
72 - JUNE 2004
Bibliography of Virginia Kidd's poetry.
73 - AUGUST 2004
Details from Drew Morse re topic of his PhD. That poetry in SFzs The Mentor (Oz) and Harry Warner Jrs '40s Spaceways now indexed, former by editor Ron L. Clarke, latter by A. Langley Searles, editor of Fantasy Commentator. r/vs of collns by UK pro Ian Watson - "Lexicographer's Lovesongs" (DNA Publications), Dale Jensen - "Twisted History" (Malthus P), and Karen A. Romanko - "Raven's Runes" (Sam's Dot P).
74 - SEPTEMBER 2004
Feedback on the timeline. John F. Haines' postreview of book-length '38 SF poem by Josephine Young Case "At Midnight on the 31st of March".
75/76
"Elsewhen Unbound". Considerably enlarged/revised coverage of poetry in US Sfzs, the 1930s-1960s.
77 - OCTOBER 2004
R/vs of Mike Allen's "Petting The Timeshark" (DNA Publications) and, by Steve Jeffery, of John M. Ford's "Heat of Fusion" (Tor/Forge). News Knut Gerwer's massive compilation of Robert Calvert material, interviews, articles re, and texts of RC's poetry collections, incl predominantly SF "Centigrade 232", back on Net, now hosted on Aural Innovations site.
78 - OCTOBER 2004 (Only time 2 issues in same month)
R/v of reprinting by Erasmus Darwin Foundation, Lichfield of "Cosmologia", all three of polymath/Charles Darwin grandfather ED's late 18th/early 19th C book- length poems, including proto-SF material particularly in "The Loves of The Plants".
79 - JANUARY 2005
Post r/v of Jeremy Reed's "Red-Haired Android" (City Lights P ), and r/vs of Andrew Darlington's "Jingles For Discord" (Minotaur P), David S. Irwin's self-published "Observations Short of Reason - Sci-Fi, Horror, and a Bit of Christmas", Eric Ratcliffe's "Selected Long Poems" (Astrapost, and Neal Wilgus "The March of Politics" (Limited Edition P).
80 - FEBRUARY 2005
R/vs of Margot K. Juby's "The Erl-King's Bride" (Moonshine P) and, by Steve Jeffery, the Charles Voss ed. "Book of Ballads" (Tor) - graphic strip treatments.
81 - MARCH 2005
Obit of Kenneth Vye Bailey, important British SF poet and critic. R/v of Hippocampus P's Selected, "The Thirst of Satan", of poetry of George Sterling, early 20th C inspirer of US cosmic poets like CAS, Stanton Coblentz, Lilith Lorraine.
82 - APRIL 2005
Corrs & Clars renamed Matters Arising. Initial biblio of K. V. Bailey poetry's magazine appearances. More info on enlarged 2nd edn of US pro Suzette Haden Elgin's SF Poetry Handbook (SFPA), incl the sample chapters on Net. R/v of Frank Belknap Long's "The Darkling Tide - Previously Uncollected Poems" (Tsathoggua P).
83 - MAY 2005
More KVB biblio data. Obit of US SF poet Sonya Dorman. R/vs ia Geoff Sawers "Scissors Cut Rock" (Flarestack P) and David C. Kopaska-Merkel "The Ruined City" (Gnarled Totem P).
84 - JUNE 2005
R/vs of Brian Aldiss' opera libretto "Oedipus on Mars" (Avernus Media), and collns by Americans Timons Esaias "The Influence of Pigeons on Architecture" (Yellow Pepper P) and Neal Wilgus "Rhymed and Dangerous" (Kindred Spirit P).
85 - JULY 2005
"Terminological transits" - re terms like speculative/trans-real/alt.real etc, Andrew Motion having described SF poetry while plague-avoiding those words. R/vs CAS Collected, "The Last Oblivion" and "The Strange Music of Erich Zann", R. Nemo Hill verse HPL retelling (both Hippocampus).
86 - AUGUST 2005
8pp special, annotated biblio of Edwin Morgan's SF poems, produced for panel on him at Glasgow Worldcon.
87 - SEPTEMBER 2005
Obit Warren C. Norwood, re Windhover NEPs. Late Victorian SF poet May Kendall honoured by birthplace Bridlington library. Brian Aldiss OBE for Services to Literature. R/v "Eyes of the God - The Weird Fiction & Poetry of R. H. Barlow" - incl this HPL associate's early rhymed/metred poetry, and later Activist "spontaneity" and pre-Hispanic Mexican culture-influenced work.
88 - OCTOBER 2005
Fiftieth anniv. of LOTR, as NEP. More KVB biblio. Swiss genre poetry. National Poetry Day 2005 theme "The Future" - organisers Poetry Society quote on website B-movie "Plan Nine From Outer Space" - "We are all interested in the future - it's where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives", and PS own summary that covers "everything from laser-toting robots to your plans for the weekend." No apparent liaison over event with SF community/poets. R/vs of also HPL-linked Samuel Loveman "Out of the Immortal Night" (Hippocampus) and post-review of John Light's "Lines of Light" (Salzburg U P).
89 - NOVEMBER 2005
R/v of Thomas Wiloch "Stigmata Junction" reprint in Naked Snake Anthology series, and discussion whether prose-poems or mood fiction vignettes. Also r/vs of Paul Truttman's "A Will of Its Own" Bubblelonia sequence (VacHume P), and mini-r/v of Harvard U P paperback of translated early 20th C speculative poetry by Russian Futurist Velimir Khlebnikov.
90 - DECEMBER 2005
R/vs poetry in "Gothic Readings - 1764 - 1840", genre in Victorian women's poetry anthology and crit essay collections re same, John W. Sexton's "Vortex" (Doghouse P), and Bruce Boston's on-line polemic "The Failure of Genre Poetry".
91 - JANUARY 2006
100th Moonstone, pagan poetry mag, also sadly last. R/vs of "Dwarf Stars" short-short genre poetry anth, ed Deborah Kolodji, and Dave Wright's "Vasta" (Gratis P), etc. US SFz poetry catch-up. Tennyson's "I would as soon kill a pig as write a letter", and Roger North on those "had rather carry guts to the bears than write a letter" as t-shirt slogans for helicidaehermesophobes aka snail mail usage refuseniks.
92 - FEBRUARY 2006
Edit re need for more awareness of SF poetry written overseas other than in US. Obit for Ken Bulmer, noting his "54 Vignette" almost certainly 1st UK SF poetry anth. R/v of "The Alchemy of Stars" eds Roger Dutcher/Mike Allen, anth of SFPA's Rhysling Awards winners 1978-2004 (SFPA/Prime Books). Insert announcing/explaining first Data Dump Award process for 2005 UK-published SF poetry.
93 - MARCH 2006
"Elsewhen Unbound" addenda. Beowulfiana.
94 - APRIL 2006
Hilltop 40th Anniversary reprint of first genre poem published by the press, in Riding West V 1, #3, Sept 1966, George Cairncross' "Outer Space". Data Dump Award Long List. Further "Elsewhen Unbound" addenda.
95 - MAY 2006
Data Dump Award Short List. comment on Locus on-line poll for genre poems of year/"all time"/statistics of list of possibles provided on site. Dreams & Nightmares 20th annish, #73, r/ved (and mention of other anniversaries), also r/vs of John F. Haines' "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" in Atlantean P The Bards series, and poetry in John Hertz "Dancing and Joking" (Westernsfa Inc). quoted B. Grumman's definition of Evocature - "prose that sounds and acts like poetry but isn't."
96 - JUNE 2006
Data Dump Award results - winner Jacqueline Jones' "HD 70641", from Handshake #60. Joint Runners-Up Cardinal Cox and Andrew Darlington, Joint Third Kristine Ong Muslim and Tracy Patrick. 50th anniversary of 1st Swedish edn of Martinson's "Aniara": ed comment how much SF poetry in non-genre outlets, and skewing effect of not including such on eg Locus poll. More paradise Lostiana. Shelley's description of Christ as "a mass of electrified clay" quoted. R/vs of two more in The Bards series, Cardinal Cox's "Tir Na nOgham" and Dave Wright's "Rough Guide to Genesis".
97 - JULY 2006
Post/r/vs of Fiona Pitt-Kethley's 1985 "The Tower of Glass", and Catherine Mintz' "Coyote". R/v of Alice Lenkiewicz' NEP "Maxine" (Bluechrome Publishing). 1st mention of Iraq war in US genre poem, Danny Adams' "Utnapishim", Mythic Delirium 13: US troops exclude gods from Babylon.
98 - AUGUST 2006
Post-r/vs of Harry Guest's "The Emperor of Outer Space" (Radio 3, 1976: book 1983), US genre poetry mag Arion's Feb 1954 issue, Fritz Lieber's 1977 novel "Our Lady of Darkness" re CAS "diary" playing plot role, and Geraldine Monk's "Interregnum" sequence re Pendle witches (Creation Books). r/v of Atlantean P's "Dark Tower" anthology. Brief item re haikuform variants, and collective term HIFFs (Haiku Influenced Form Fashionings) suggested to cover accreting number.
99 - SEPTEMBER 2006
R/v of John W. Sexton on-line article re his own new genre haikuform variants; also data on Wilochian aka "cut-up hkform. Post r/vs of Ray Bradbury's "When Elephants Last In The Dooryard Bloomed" and, by Steve Jeffery, (refound in misfiling hell) of Neil Gaiman's "Smoke and Mirrors" (Avon).