Second Aeon
Second Aeon was a British literary periodical published from late 1966 to early 1975. It was edited by Peter Finch.
Issues and Contributors
Issue 1
late 1966
Issue 2
June, 1967
Wes Magee, Peter Finch, Jan Leslie Olsen, Cavan McCarthy, Keith Armstrong & Adrian Mitchell
Issue 3
September, 1967
Wes Magee, Peter Finch, Stephen Morris, Gabriel Levine, Anna Scher, Chas Hepplewhite, Steve Sneyd, Lyndon Puw, Martin Petavel & others
Issue 4
early 1968
Brian Wake, Chrissie Smith, Peter Hoida, David Stringer, Paul Green, Ish Yair, & others
Issue 5
mid 1968
Adrian Henri, Wynn Islwyn Davies, Geraint Jarman, Penny Watkins, Anna Scher, Mike Horovitz, Chris Torrance, Francine Allen, Ruth Blackmore, Martin Petavel & others
Issue 6
late 1968
David Roberts, George Dowden, Jim Burns, John Gwyn Griffiths, Bob Cobbing, Allen Ginsberg, Raymond Garlick, Cavan McCarthy, Alan Jackson, Umberto Saba.
Issue 7
early 1969
d a levy, Brian Patten, David Callard, Krishna Srinivas, Geraint Jarman, Leroi Jones, Ish Yair, Chris Torrance, Bill Wyatt, Bob Cobbing, John Fairfax, Tony Curtis & others
Issue 8 & 9 (double)
mid 1969
Peter Finch, William Wantling, Pablo Neruda, dsh, Iain Sinclair, Doug Blazek, Dave Cunliffe, Roger McGough, B. C. Leale, Martin Booth, Adrian Henri, Geraint Jarman, Meg Wright, Jim Burns, Alan Sillitoe
Issue 10
December, 1969
John Furnival, Edwin Morgan, Will Parfitt, Peter Finch, Bob Cobbing, Peter Mayer, Brian Wake, Harry Guest, Peter Gruffydd, Gene Fowler, Tina Morris, Alan Bold, Allen Halsey, Iain Sinclair, Barry MacSweeney, dsh, Edwin Morgan, Thomas a Clark, George Dowden, William Wantling, Alan Perry, Peter Porter, Wes Magee, Gary Snyder, Tom Earley, Paul Evans, Marguerite Edmonds & others.
Issue 11
1970
Jeff Nuttall (fiction), J. P. Ward, Nicholas Zurbrugg, Joaquim Branco, dsh & others (visual art) and poets: John Ormond, Alan Perry, Iain Sinclair, Gary Snyder, Bill Wyatt, William Wantling, James Blish, Julie Cashford, Owen Davis, Gene Fowler, Pete Hoida, Edwin Morgan, John Idris Jones, Tom Kryss, Andrew Lloyd, Ulli McCarthy & others
Issue 12
1970
Dannie Abse, George Barker, Jim Burns, Don Cauble, Dave Cunliffe, Tony Curtis, George Dowden, Peter Gruffydd, Harry Guest, Frances Horovitz, Glyn Hughes, John Idris Jones, Mike Horovitz, Barry MacSweeney, Pablo Neruda, Jeff Nuttall, Peter Redgrove, Tom Raworth, Chris Torrance, John Tripp, William Wantling, Paul Brown, Henri Chopin, Anne Lewis Smith, Charles Verey & others.
Issue 13
1971
Dannie Abse, Gavin Bantock, Robert Bly, Charles Bukowski, Julie Cashford, Pradip Choudhuri, dsh, Adrian Henri, Emyr Humphreys, Frances Horovitz, Glyn Hughes, John James, George Macbeth, Yukio Mishima, Peter Redgrove, Penelope Shuttle, David Tipton, Tristan Tzara, Herbert Williams, William Wantling, Hans Verhagen & others. Experimental work from Bob Cobbing, Jennifer Pike, dsh, Edwin Morgan, Jiri Valoch, Alison Bielski. Fiction from Opal L nations & Ian Robinson.
Issue 14
1972
Cover: Jochen Gerz. Alan Bold & Opal L nation (fiction), Tom PhillipsMiroljub Todorovic Visual work: Jiri Valoch, Paul Brown, Hans Clavin, Mike Giller, Adrezej Jackowski, Edwin Morgan & Nick Zurbrugg. Poems: William Wantling, Juan Banuelos, Charles Bukowski, Bill Butler, Julie Cashford, Roy Fuller, Louis Ginsberg, Bryn Griffiths, Marilyn Hacker, John Tripp, Chris Torrance, D. M. Thomas, Iain Sinclair, Peter Redgrove, Penelope Shuttle, Octavio Paz, Philip Pacey, Leslie Norris, Susan Musgrave, Edward Lucie-Smith, Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, John Idris Jones, Kris Hemensley and others
Issue 15
1973
Cover: Zoonimir Kostic Palanski. fiction: Jim Burns and Michael Butterworth; Poetry: Cid Corman, Asa Beneviste, D. M. Black, Robert Bly, Michel Deguy, Robert Desnos, John Digby, Clayton Eshleman, Ruth Feldman, Andrea Finn, Raymond Garlick, Paul Gogarty, Harry Guest, Adrian Henri, Dick Higgins, John James, Abelardo Sanchez Leon, Alexis Lykiard, Brown Miller, Wes Magee, Eric Mottram, Cesare Pavese, Barry MacSweeney, Miklos Radnoti, Peter Redgrove, Tony Rudolf, R. S. Thomas, Bill Wyatt, John Tripp, Gael Turnbull, D. M. Thomas, Philip Whalen, Edwin Morgan, Nina Carroll, Bob Cobbing, Jochen Gerz, John J. Sharkey & others.
Issue 16-17
1973
Cover: John Furnival; fiction: Alexis Lykiard, Opal L nations; poetry from Antipater of Sidon, Dannie Abse, Charles Bukowski, Jim Burns, William Burroughs, Julie Cashford, Cid Corman, Thomas A Clark, William Cox, Theodore Enslin, Clayton Eshleman, Peter Finch, Duncan Glen, Yannis Goumas, Bill Griffiths, David H. W. Grubb, Harry Guest, Marilyn Hacker, Cyril Hodges, Holderlin, Ena Hollis, Peter Jay, Nicki Jackowska, Peter Levi, Tim Longville, Ulli McCarthy, Edwin Morgan, Nossis, Peter Redgrove, Theodore Weiss, J. P. Ward, Hans Verhagen, William Sherman, John Riley, Barry Edgar Pilcher, John Ormond, Julio Ortega, Blas De Otero, Alan Perry, Tom Pickard, Malcolm Parr & others.
Issue 18
1974
Cover: Tom Phillips; translations of Paul Celan, Stephan Mallarme, Tristan Tzara and Cesare Pavese; poets: Carol Berge, David Black, Robert Bly, Cid Corman, Tony Conran, Gavin Ewart, Jack Hirschman, Alan Jackson, Penelope Shuttle, Bill Sherman, James Kirkup, John Tripp, D. M. Thomas, John Wain, Charles Plymell, Thomas Tessier, Maurizio Nannucci, Deirdre Burton, Alan Perry, & others
Issue 19-21
1975
New Poetry from Japan's Asa Group, Stanley Bern (experimental novel); poets: Antonin Artuad, Paul Auster, Fred Beake, Harry Bell, Cecile Blanchet, Keith Bosley, Rene Char, Larry Eigner, Robin Fulton, Pierre Garnier, Marilyn Hacker, Jeremy Hilton, Frances Horovitz, Philip Holmes, Pierre Joris, Nicki Jackowska, Jon Klimo, Tim Longville, Barry MacSweeney, John Mattias, John Montague, Susan Musgrave, Robert Nye, Fouad Gabriel Naffah, Ewald Osers, Benjamin Peret, Isel Rivero, William Rowe, Hans Diter Schafer, Penelope Shuttle, Matt Simpson, D. M. Thomas, David Tipton, Tomas Transtromer, John Tripp, Vallejo, J. P. Ward, John Welch, J. L. Wilkinson, Alistair Wisker, Martin Dutton, Bob Cobbing, Paul Brown, Robin Crozier, Ian Robinson, Peter Mayer and others