Cover photo © J. G. Betts. Swans in the Inner Harbour Brixham Devon
Here comes March again and with it Issue 69 of LUPO for the first quarter of this quarter century year, hopefully to provide some shafts of distraction from the international gloom with cracks in the Greenland ice-sheet and old alliances. If a course of stand-up comedy may, as reported, one day be offered by the NHS, a course of LUPO can be delivered in no time at all compared with getting to see your GP.
The verse buffet includes Danish pastries and Danish Blue, digital zombies, Nature’s inebriates, and vocal daffodils. There are one or two experimental offerings, a translation, a guessing game, solutions for a digital addiction and an Interval dedicated, however belatedly, to Valentines and related affairs. Among the human cast Elizabeth B. is propositioned by someone strikingly different from Darcy, Time is reported on, childhood revisited, a lost accent lamented, a WAG’s life examined, a painter frustrated and lawyers and editors put to the sword, not to mention some of the concerns of codgerdom lightly handled, with much else besides such as Poe, Posh and procrastination not to mention blackbirds, flamingos, thrushes and shrikes. (Yes, shrikes.)
Let loose in the four Intervals are Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Damian Balassone, Marshall Begel, Jerome Betts, Michael R. Burch, Paul Burgess, Terese Coe, Pat D’Amico, Tracy Davidson, Tony Dawson, Max Gutmann, Robin Helweg-Larsen, Edison Jennings, Steven Kent, Susan McLean, L.A. Mereoie, Mike Mesterton-Gibbons, Alan Millichip, Martin Parker, Tony Peyser, Royal Rhodes, Benjamin Caldicott Shavitz, Henry Stimpson, Michael Swan, Tom Vaughan, Donald Wheelock, Gail White and Russel Winick.
New to LUPO in this issue are a spirited band of eight, namely Mike Bemis, Paul Burgess, Tom Busillo, A. Z. Foreman, Jeanne Kennedy Frazer, Helen Hall, Penelope Hewlett and Edison Jennings.
Those reflecting on the reddening of the realm in Competition 68 include Marshall Begel, C.R. Edenhill, Julia Griffin, Martin Parker, Alan Millichip, D. A. Prince and I. V. Neversere.
So, on with the first show of 2025 and best wishes to all LUPO’s contributors and readers.
