Cover: Photo © Yuri Isshiki. Swan boats Inokashira Park Tokyo.
Here comes LUPO 61 for March 2023 with a hint of spring in its step. Topped and tailed by the transpondine Melissa Balmain and Liza McAlister Williams, its menu includes cats, cetaceans, dogs, duck-billed sheep, magpies, moas, partridges and pigeons served with celandines, garlic, zucchini and lots of other vegetables, not forgetting kudu-dung on the side. There are menhirs, organ stops and perilous zips, verbal magic relocates A.E. Housman in another county, a Poirot fan lauds the brainy Belgian, anachronistic tea is laid on, a hangover endured and much learnt about geology and other matters.
Performing at greater or lesser length in the Intervals are Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Damian Balassone, Bruce Bennett, Jerome Betts, Terese Coe, Bob Eccleston, Julia Griffin, Mia Schilling Grogan, Max Gutmann, Peter Hodgson, Bill Holloway, Steven Kent, Bruce McGuffin, Susan McLean, L A. Mereoie, Rumi Morkin, Paul Van Peenen, Tony Peyser, Matthew Sumner, Tom Vaughan, Paul Willis and Russel Winick.
Fresh from their labours among the nut cutlets and risotto, are the winners of Competition 60, namely Jane Blanchard, Martin Elster, Mike Mesterton-Gibbons, Alan Millichip, I.V. Neversere, D. A. Prince and Margaret Owen Ruckert.
A hearty welcome is extended to eight voices new to LUPO, that is to say Joe Crocker, Tony Dawson, Taryn Frazier, Mia Schilling Grogan, Richard Schiffman, Matthew Sumner, Felicity Teague and Tad Tuleja.
Thanks for the use of photographs are due to to Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Joan Butler and Yuri Isshiki, coupled with best spring wishes to all LUPO's contributors and readers.
