Cover photo © J.G. Betts. Galloping Horses at the Fairground Museum Devon
The times may be darker and more uncertain than ever but LUPO 68 is now here to provide
some seasonal and other light and distraction, with varied slants on the world of birds, real and imaginary, vampiric obsessions, flies, cheese, real or imaginary, a warning from a dinosaur, and several thoughts on the dangers of the digital world we are forced to live in. There are cats, dogs, leaves, the truth behind some hobbies, rhyming slang and North v South, as well as fish fingers, fridges, rabbits, squirrels, trolleys and yeomen. There is ars poetica in Interval Five, parodies and burlesques in Interval Four and the usual bran-tub of lucky dips in the other three.
Decking the halls of those five Intervals are Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Pat D’Amico, Brian Allgar, Damian Balassone, Kathleen Beavers, Bruce Bennett, Jerome Betts, Marilyn Bosckis, Jane Blanchard, Alexander Blustin, Michael Calvert, Mary Cresswell, Tracy Davidson, Heather Dubrow, Daniel Galef, Julia Griffin, Max Gutmann, Elizabeth Horrocks, Will Ingrams, Steven Kent, Philip Kitcher, L. A. Mereoie, D.A. Prince, Ellen Dooling Reynard, David J. Rothman, Alex Steelsmith, Pippa Storey, Gail White and Russel Winick.
Safely aboard LUPO’s freewheeling festive vehicle are six welcome first-timers, Marilyn Bosckis, Michael Calvert, Andy Hebb, David J. Rothman, Pippa Storey, and Faith Thompson.
Triolet-triumphant in Competition 67 are Jane Blanchard, Marshall Begel, Julia Griffin, Mike Mesterton-Gibbons, D. A. Prince, Margaret Owen Ruckert, and Michael Swan.
Thanks are due to Ana Hijosa Sanchez and Pippa Storey for the use of photographs, and
the usual apologies to those whose work has had to be held over till March. Let’s hope the next half-decade is cooler and calmer whichever hemisphere you inhabit. And finally, best solsticial wishes to all LUPO’s contributors and readers.
