Cover: Photo © Heather Simpson. Canada geese and goslings in Kew Gardens
The first LUPO of 2026 hopes to alleviate the rain of disturbing news and the deluges of the non-metaphorical kind with a mixed spread of offerings from contributors old and new. The bill of fare includes peas, macaroons, muesli, gin and tonic, cats, cows, pigeons, mosquitoes, museums, songs (sort of), sports and games, sci-fi, AI, a reverse Housman, Boris Karloff and W.H.. Auden, weather talk and thoughts on global misuse among many others.
Appearing at greater or lesser length in the five Intervals are Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Marshall Begel, Bruce Bennett, Jerome Betts, Ross Carne, Terry Cree, Tracy Davidson, Tony Dawson, Philip Dunkerley, Peter Emery, Anne Eyries, Steven Knepper, Mike Mesterton-Gibbons, Julia Griffin, Steven Kent, Philip Kitcher, L.A. Mereoie, Alan Millichip, Don Nigroni, Martin Parker, David J. Rothman, Margaret Owen Ruckert, Tom Vaughan, Arthur White, Russel Winick, and Julian Woodruff.
Fresh from their encounter with George Crabbe and modern media are the winners of Competition 72, namely Marshall Begel, Julia Griffin, Steven Kent, Philip Kitcher, Mike Mesterton-Gibbons and D. A. Prince.
Making their LUPO debuts in this issue come the novel nine of Ruth S. Baker, Jesse Keith Butler, Ross Carne, Richard Clarke, Terry Cree, Anne Eyries, David Anson Lee, Angela Segredaki and Arthur White.
On a housekeeping note, it would be appreciated if contributors could submit using Times New Roman 12 font, not centred and with titles unbolded.
Thanks are due to Felicia Nimue Ackerman and Heather Simpson for the use of photographs and apologies to those whose work has had to be held over to June. Best spring or autumn wishes to all LUPO’s readers and contributors in the currently hot or cold hemispheres.
