Cover: Photo (c) J. G. Betts. View from Coleton Fishacre Gardens Devon
Here comes the summer ’23 edition tackling such salient topics of the times as bees, bitcoin, blues, boomers and Zoomers, bonsai, bots, can-openers, carbon-offset, cats, Eastbourne, Edward Lear, lamb-training, pebbles, poutine, (not Putin), platypi, recycling, rhyme, space travel, tankonauts. a Welsh wedding and Walt Whitman, among many others. There is the fortuitous appearance of a debate about AI and, a new departure, a reply to a piece in the preceding issue, No. 61.
Offerings at greater or lesser length can be found in the four Intervals from Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Benjamin Baum, Kathleen Beavers, Bruce Bennett, Jerome Betts, Michael R. Burch, Terese Coe, John Cooper, Tony Dawson, Heather Dubrow, Stephen Gold, Max Gutmann, Jan D. Hodge, Charles Hughes, Kathryn Jacobs, Richard Jordan, A.M. Juster, Tonia Kalouria, Steven Kent, Bruce McGuffin, L.A. Mereoie, Alan Millichip, Rumi Morkin, Bob Nimmo, Martin Parker, Tony Peyser, Margaret Owen Ruckert, Matthew Sumner, Michael Swan, Henry Stimpson, Tad Tuleja and Russel Winick.
The eight merry mud-slinging winners of Competition 61 firmly putting editors in their place include Jane Blanchard, C. R. Edenhill, Judith Green, Julia Griffin, Mike Mesterton-Gibbons, Michael Swan, Peggy Verrall and John Wood.
Welcome aboard for the first time in this issue are Benjamin Baum, Kathleen Beavers, Marshall Begel, Heather Dubrow, Charles Hughes, Kathryn Jacobs, Richard Jordan, A. M. Juster, Carl Kinsky and Bob Nimmo.
Thanks to Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Sally Cooke and Peggy Verrall for the use of photographs and best wishes for a disaster-free summer (or winter) to all LUPO’s contributors and readers near or far.
