Cover photo (c) J. G. Betts. Dinghies at Salcombe Devon.
Summer is here and with it LUPO’s 70th issue. With the times and global prospects as grim as ever it hopes to offer a brief respite from them with topics ranging from cats to coots, and avocados to Augusta, with a copious amount of ketchup. The cast includes Anaximander, barbarians, a cuckoo, a jealous dog, fruit flies, a heron, a monk, a mouse, a caring leech, Hercule Poirot, a Pope, tennis-players, Tr*mp, a tormented traveller, train-riders and train-robbers.
Rubbing shoulders and assorted verses in the five Intervals are Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Bruce Bennett, Jerome Betts, Claire Booker, Paul Burgess, Michael Calvert, Janice Canerdy, Dan Campion, Terese Coe, Pat D’Amico, Tracy Davidson, Ceri Eagling, Tonia Kalouria, Julia Griffin, Max Gutmann, Steven Kent, Philip Kitcher, Daniel Klawitter, Mary Hills Kuck, L.A. Mereoie, Alan Millichip, James B. Nicola, Chris O’ Carroll, Jimmy Pappas, Martin Parker, Margaret Owen Ruckert Christopher Scribner, John Whitney Steele, Michael Swan, Tony Peyser, Tom Vaughan and Paul Willis.
Eight hardy souls brave the Lupine labyrinth for the first time in the shape of Katie Dunbar, Ceri Eagling, Daniel Klawitter, Mary Hills Kuck, Brian O’Sullivan, Jimmy Pappas, Christopher Scribner and Lynn Tanny.
Shielding their eyes from the sun come the winners of Competition 69, Marshall Begel, Lida Bushloper, David Dumouriez, Steven Kent, Mike Mesterton-Gibbons, Alan Millichip, and Gail White.
Thanks are due to Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Ana Hijosa Sanchez and Heather Simpson for the use of photographs, along with best seasonal wishes to all LUPO’s contributors and readers.
