Cover photo © J.G. Betts. Ox-eye daisies Tessier Gardens Torquay
Here comes LUPO’s Issue 71 as September 2025 arrives, with cockroaches, compartments(Third Class) of the old school, cold callers cricketers, and clinic charts, and that’s just some of the Cs. Among much else, there are also toucans, pi, a pier show, the perils of language, underground music and side-dishes of salad and murderous greens, as well as the perennial offerings of pobiz and parody, plus a tribute to a famous Hollywood pair. The times continue dark, but LUPO as ever hopes to provide at least a little light for temporary alleviation of the gathering gloom.
Performing in the five Intervals are a merry mixed band of veterans and newcomers, that is to say Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Clyde Always, Marshall Begel, David Bernard, Jerome Betts, Michael R. Burch, Paul Burgess, Terese Coe, Nick Cooke, Pat D’Amico, Tracy Davidson, Heather Dubrow, Jeff Gallagher, Midge Goldberg, Steven Kent, Philip Kitcher, Miriam N. Kotzin, Barbara Loots, Simon MacCulloch, Bruce McGuffin, L.A. Mereoie, Mike Mesterton-Gibbons, Paul Millan, Alan Millichip, Don Nigroni, Chris O’Carroll, Martin Parker, Tony Peyser, Harry Ricketts, Alex Steelsmith, and Russel Winick.
Inside the LUPO tent for the first time we welcome David Bernard, Roger Bonner, Nick Cooke, Barry Foy, Miriam N. Kotzin, Paul Millan, Gwen Owen and Eleanor Jane Turner.
Winning entries in Competition 70 came from Marshall Begel, William Greig, Mike Mesterton-Gibbons, Alan Millichip, I. V. Neversere, Martin Parker, Leo Vincent and John Wood.
Thanks to Heather Simpson and John Wood for the use of photographs and LUPO's hemisphere-appropriate seasonal greetings to all its readers and contributors across the world.
