Bikwil Contents List of Issues 1 - 6

Issues 1 - 6
Catalogue

Catalogue, Arranged by Issue, of All Material That Has Appeared to Date in Bikwil

Issue 1, May 1997
Issue 2, July 1997
Issue 3, September 1997

Issue 4, November 1997
Issue 5, January 1998
Issue 6, March 1998

Issues 7-12 Issues 13-18 Issues 19-24 Issues 25-30 Issues 31-36 Issues 37-42 Issues 43-48 Issues 49-54 Issues 55-60

Author Catalogue Series Catalogue Title Catalogue

Issue 1, May 1997
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And Now, with a Modest Flourish of Cornets and Sackbuts . . .	Tony Rogers	Editorial announcing the first issue of Bikwil
Go, Little Bikwil	Bet Briggs	A salute of encouragement in verse to our new venture
Bats in John Bull's Belfry	Tony Rogers	Musings on Edith Sitwell and her English Eccentrics
A Word in Your Pink Shell-like	Harlish Goop	What is the Mexican Wave really?
Web Line	Tony Rogers	Two vastly different sites: Sydney Morning Herald and Land o' Useless Facts
Quintessential Quirky Quotes	Various	Quotes from Woody Allen, T.S. Eliot, W.C. Fields, Mohandas Gandhi and Anonymous
Postal Fever	Tony Rogers	Review of the completely free print magazine Heritage NSW
From the Back Verandah	Fizzgig	Revisiting the collaborations between jazz trumpeter Miles Davis and orchestrator/conductor Gil Evans

Issue 2, July 1997
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Another Newsletter Bites the Dust	Tony Rogers	Editorial reporting reader response to the first issue
"All My Efforts to Get a Horse Have Been Unsuccessful"	Tony Rogers	Part 1 if an article on arguably the greatest war correspondent of all time, William Russell
Quintessential Quirky Quotes	Various	Quotes from Sir Thomas Beecham, Jerome K. Jerome, Miss Piggy, Marcus Valerius Martial and Dan Quayle
A Word in Your Pink Shell-like	Harlish Goop	Language pedantry
Web Line	Tony Rogers	How a national radio network — ABC Radio National — makes use of the Internet
The Reverence of Spring	Bet Briggs	A cathedral of flowers
From the Back Verandah	Fizzgig	Alan Plater's TV mini -series Oliver's Travels

Issue 3, September 1997
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Bursting at the Seams	Tony Rogers	A couple of letters from the mailbag
"All My Efforts to Get a Horse Have Been Unsuccessful"	Tony Rogers	Part 2 and conclusion of an article on war correspondent William Russell
Quintessential Quirky Quotes	Various	Quotes from Herman Melville, Dorothy Parker, Rev. Sydney Smith, Mark Twain and Anonymous
The Grasshopper and The Kid Glove Kid	Bet Briggs	The poet reminiscences on a middle-aged dancing duo
A Word in Your Pink Shell-like	Harlish Goop	Jabberwocky et al.
Web Line	Tony Rogers	Democracy in action on the Internet, together with some news about Thomas Crapper
Larick and the Aratronts (1)	Harlish Goop	A Bandersnatch paglet, to be compielded
From the Back Verandah	Fizzgig	Whence the name Fizzgig?

Issue 4, November 1997
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As Usual, Oddballs Galore	Tony Rogers	The Editor introduces the challenge of the Twelve Billiard Balls Puzzle
What a Difference a Tree Makes!	Bet Briggs	Response to the wonder of trees, both in prose and in verse
Transatlantic Messages	Tony Rogers	In praise of Alistair Cooke's Letter from America
Quintessential Quirky Quotes	Various	Quotes from Woody Allen, Sir Winston Churchill, Rodney Dangerfield, W.C. Fields and Steve Race
A Word in Your Pink Shell-like	Harlish Goop	A look at Pam Peters' Cambridge Australian English Style Guide
Web Line	Tony Rogers	Three more curious sites: Dead People Server, Find the Spam, Klingon Language Institute
Off-key in the Kitchen	Percy	So begins our Dreadful Doggerel series
From the Back Verandah	Fizzgig	Sizing up Oscar Peterson's jazz piano technique

Issue 5, January 1998
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Immolation Imminent	Tony Rogers	Editorial announcing that the November 1998 Issue will be devoted to composer Richard Wagner
Inadvertent Doggerel	Tony Rogers	Funny, isn't it, how the Victorian era was prone to fits of unconscious bad verse composition?
Quintessential Quirky Quotes	Various	Quotes from Samuel Butler, Alfred Hitchcock, Groucho Marx, Dorothy Parker and Anonymous
Falling Leaves	Bet Briggs	An autumnal poem
A Word in Your Pink Shell-like	Harlish Goop	Acronyms
Germany — Then and Now	The Man from Abdera	An Aussie immigrant revisits the land of his birth
Web Line	Tony Rogers	Internet access to libraries
Orchestral Complaint	Katisha	Some verses from a former member of the "I'm-Sorry-I'll-Play-That-Again" Orchestra
From the Back Verandah	Fizzgig	Has humourist Frank Muir unearthed the oldest joke in a European language?

Issue 6, March 1998
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Unbalanced Music of the Spheres	Tony Rogers	Editorial on the dearth of solutions offered by readers to the Twelve Billiard Balls Puzzle
A Town Like Abdera, or The Republic of Fools	Bet Briggs	Some literary sleuthing pays off
Quintessential Quirky Quotes	Various	Quotes from Ernest Newman, Mark Russell, Rev. Sydney Smith, a Spanish Proverb and Queen Victoria
Why Me?	Allan English	Musicians get to meet some odd people
Twelfth Man Found Wanting	Tony Rogers	In the absence of any other solution to the Twelve Billiard Balls Puzzle, the Editor provides his own
Where Three Ways Meet	Various	A new column of trivia, with contributions this time from Sockrates and Harlish Goop
A Word in Your Pink Shell-like	Harlish Goop	Palindromes
Web Line	Tony Rogers	Classical music on the Internet
From the Back Verandah	Fizzgig	Some hot gossip surrounding the old music-hall ditty Daisy, Daisy

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