Cover: Photo (c) J. G. Betts. Juvenile herring gull in flooded meadow
LUPO’s Issue 64 for the last dark month of this dark 2023 hopes to bring a little distracting partly festive cheer to the cybersphere with cauliflowers, cheese, cup-cakes, fruit pie, lemons, Marmite, odd fish, pastry and tea. There are also ashes, bookish attachments, feathers (but no tar), pets, mosquitoes, and PINS. There is much ado about the perils of pobiz, not to mention the digital world, as well as the usual parodies and burlesques, with lots of other offerings in the box from dancing to Darwin .
Featured in the five Intervals, long and short, are Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Damian Balassone, Marshall Begel, Bruce Bennett, Jerome Betts, Jane Blanchard, Claire Booker, David Blumenfeld, Alexander Blustin, Terese Coe, Pat D’Amico, Tracy Davidson, Stephen Gold, Julia Griffin, Max Gutmann, Steven Kent, Philip Kitcher, Jean L. Kreiling, Bruce McGuffin, L.A. Mereoie, Alan Millichip, Martin Parker, Paul Van Peenen, Tony Peyser, Samantha Pious, J. D. Smith, George Stanworth, Michael Swan, Tom Vaughan, Peggy Verrall, Paul Willis, Russel Winick and Nigel Woodhead.
Throwing light from various angles on the vagaries of the solsticial season come the winners of Competion 63 via the variegated voices of Jane Blanchard, Claire Booker, John Cooper, Julia Griffin, Mike Mesterton-Gibbons, Martin Parker, Michael Swan and John Wood.
Four first-appearers to welcome aboard the LUPO wunderwagen are Shamik Banerjee, Kevin Canfield, Craig Cowden and Nigel Woodhead.
Thanks to Joan Butler for permission to use a photograph, the usual apologies to those whose work has had to be held over till March, and best wishes for 2024 to all LUPO's contributors and readers.
