Alive in Parts of this Century: Eric Mottram at 70 (1994)

Twickenham, Middlesex, England: North and South (book, anthology), 1994.
8.25" x 5.75" x 0.5", 164 pages, softcover, ISBN 9-78-1870314-26-8.

Alive in Parts of this Century: Eric Mottram at 70, an anthology of tribute writing to author and Burroughs-biographer Eric Mottram, published by North and South (Twickenham, Middlesex, England) in 1994. Edited by Peterjon Skelt and Jasmin Skelt.

Burroughs contributes “The Monkey Head”, p. 21. A photo of Eric Mottram with Brion Gysin, Allen De Loach, and William S. Burroughs is at page 59.

This copy was a gift from Aloes Books publisher Jim Pennington.

Contents:

• David Murray: photograph
• Yasmin Skelt, Peterjon Skelt, and David Annwn: foreword
• John Whiting: untitled recollection
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "A Flight Through Time" (poetry)
• John Page: "A Grand Tour in Italy with Eric" (recollection)
• Gavin Selerie: "In Melville's Track" (poetry)
• T. Wignesan: untitled recollection
• Ted Wilentz: "For Eric Mottram on His 70th Birthday" (recollection)
• William Burroughs: "The Monkey Head" (prose)
• Wendy Stallard Flory: untitled recollection
• Tom Raworth: art
• Will Rowe: "La mañana alza el rio..." (essay/poetry)
• John Davies: untitled recollection
• Joan Steen Wilentz: "For Eric's Birthday" (recollection)
• Allen De Loach: photographs
• Hubert Selby Jr.: untitled recollection
• Jerome Rothenberg: "Sea Thoughts, After Apollinaire" (poetry)
• Bill Sherman: untitled recollection
• John Porter: "Air Space #9" (poetry)
• Leslie Fiedler: untitled recollection
• Elaine Feinstein: "Eric Mottram" (recollection)
• Paula Clarke: "Bemused" (concrete poetry)
• Thomas A Clark: untitled poem
• Ken Edwards: untitled recollection
• Ken Edwards: "Bird Migration In the 21st Century" (poetry)
• Clive Bush: "poet in a company of musicians" (poetry)
• Gary Frame: "McLuhan, Mottram, and Me" (recollection)
• R. B. Kitaj: "Robert Duncan" (drawing)
• Tom Pickard: "Hidden Agenda" (poetry)
• Wolfgang Görtschacher: "Inside the Whale of Britain's Literary Establishment" (recollection)
• Richard Cupidi: "ViVa!" (poetry)
• Jeff Nuttall: "Breakfast at Guernsey Grove" (poetry)
• Thomas Meyer: "The Collection and Translation of Light" (poetry)
• Pierre Joris: "Homage/Collage for Eric Mottram @ 70" (poetry)
• Peter Hodgkiss: "Eric's Omelette: a recollection" (recollection)
• Peter Finch: "Walking" (art)
• Allen Fisher: "beginnings of Mouse" (poetry)
• Allen Fisher: "Monkey" (poetry)
• Robert Hampson: "ash beech cedar" (poetry)
• Dale Carter: "Lifting the Weights" (recollection)
• Cris Creek: "This is 'as they say' a true story." (concrete poetry)
• Tony Baker: "the dance, the dancer" (poetry)
• Alok Bhalla: "Satyagraha, compassion and Playfulness: A Note on a Letter by Mahatma Gandhi (A Fragment from an Ongoing Work)" (essay)
• Martin A. Kayman: "A Freudian Analysis of Ezra Pound's Cantos" (concrete poetry)
• David Moody: "Wu Mountain" (poetry)
• David Moody: "Poem in Autumn" (poetry)
• David Moody: "Sweet Nidderdale" (poetry)
• Simon Pettet: "1753..." (poetry)
• Allen De Loach: "On the Occasion of Eric Mottram's 70th Birthday" (photo/recollection)
• Eliot Berry: "On Eric Mottram" (recollection)
• Wendy Mulford: concrete poetry
• Richard Cadel: "Baltic Coast II: Gulf" (poetry)
• Stephen Want: untitled poem
• Ian Seiderman: "Peace Project II" (poetry)
• Rob Saffer: "UnCaged" (poetry)
• Erwin Rose: "3 Poems" (poetry)
• Colin Simms: "The Rivetter" (poetry)
• Robbie Louise Hawkins: "Eight Poems" (poetry)
• Gilbert Adair: "the violence appropriate to community" (poetry)
• Allen Ginsberg: "Cheerful" (photograph)
• Anne Waldman: "Nothing but Praise" (poetry)
• Robert Bank: "A dozen snapshots from a memory album" (recollection)
• David Cook: "Postcard from Yorkshire" (art)
• Ulli Freer: "TM/EM" (poetry)
• Julian Cowley: untitled poem
• Ian F. A. Bell: "De-Centering the Margins: The Adventure of Eric Mottram" (recollection)
• Peterjon Skelt: "I can only distinguish luminous and dark bodies" (drawing)
• Charles Bernstein: "Tapas" (poetry)
• Josef Jakab: "My Home Is Your Home Provided You Don't Come on a Tank" (recollection)
• Chris Brookeman: "Introduction to Clive Bush's Paper on Festday for Eric, May 12, 1990" (recollection)
• John Ashbery: collage/letter
• Jackson Mac Low: "Happy Seventieth Birthday to Eric Mottram: A Festgedicht" (poetry)
• Jonathan Williams: "Eric the Read (That's a Pembrokeshire Pun – Get It?)" (recollection)
• Sandra Fisher: "Jonathan & Tom" (drawing)
• David Annwn: "Acclamation II – Steersman" (poetry)
• Julian Cowley: photographs
• Nathaniel Tarn: "Gravitational Waves" (poetry)
• Lawrence Upton: "Letter to Eric I" (poetry)
• Robert J. Bertholf: "Imagining Eric Mottram" (recollection)
• Michael Hrebeniak: "Poem for Eric Mottram" (poetry)
• Robert Kelly: "The Interpreter" (script)
• Roy Fisher: "When I'm Sixty-Four" (poetry)
• Marc Atkins: photographs
• Iain Sinclair: "Is This London?" (recollection)
• Mary Whiting: "Rhubarb Breakfast Crumble" (recipe)
• Howell Daniels: "Introduction to Eric Mottram's Lecture..." (essay)