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Catalogue, Arranged by Issue, of
All Material That Has Appeared to Date in Bikwil
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Catalogue, Arranged by Issue, of
All Material That Has Appeared to Date in Bikwil
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Milestone One |
Tony Rogers |
One year on, the Editor reflects |
| An Unsolicited Testimonial | Olivier de Cologne | Happy Birthday, Bikwil |
| A Word in Your Pink Shell-like | Harlish Goop | Yuppies and their ilk |
| Ah Me Mum | Lavinia Godfrey | The poet and her mother take a trip from rural Cootamundra to Sydney |
| Where Three Ways Meet | Old Vic | Trivia maybe, Victoriana certainly |
| Quintessential Quirky Quotes | Various | Quotes from Beachcomber, Sir Thomas Beecham, Albert Einstein, John Harney and Anonymous |
| In the Gentle Season | Bet Briggs | Another mellow evocation in verse of Autumn |
| Down Limerick Lane | Various | A new occasional feature, with an introductory discussion of this popular verse form by Harlish Goop and limericks by landoc and NonesuCH |
| Web Line | Tony Rogers | Three Aussie tourism sites |
| Sonnet à Trois | Hambone | Dreadful Doggerel No. 2 |
| From the Back Verandah
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Fizzgig | Memories and news of The Lovely Miss Aimi Macdonald |
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Manifesto of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palimpsests |
Tony Rogers |
A call for contributions to a further occasional series |
| Camp Creative '98, or I'll Take You Home Again, Antonio | Peter Mara | A choral neophyte enjoys himself "inside the music" |
| Web Line | Tony Rogers | Project Gutenberg |
| A Word in Your Pink Shell-like | Harlish Goop | Part 1 of a tribute to Sir James Augustus Henry Murray (1837-1915), editor of the original Oxford English Dictionary |
| "The Most Sublime Noise" | Bet Briggs | Some words in praise of Beethoven |
| Quintessential Quirky Quotes | Various | Quotes from Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Charles Luckman, Groucho Marx, George Bernard Shaw and Gore Vidal |
| From the Back Verandah
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Fizzgig | To scan or to dive? |
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I Rest My Case |
Tony Rogers |
An impassioned "mean streets" plea for more contributions to the November Wagner issue |
| For a Singer and His Song | Bet Briggs | Paul Robeson, a crusading voice |
| Postal Fever | Harlish Goop | Another rare free mag: Australian Style |
| The Egyptian Art Lover . . . | The Fairy Brothers | Dreadful Doggerel No. 3 |
| Web Line | Tony Rogers | Some Australian art gallery sites |
| A Word in Your Pink Shell-like | Harlish Goop | Part 2 and conclusion of an article on lexicographer James Murray |
| Quintessential Quirky Quotes | Various | Quotes from Margot Asquith, Brendan Behan, Robert Orben, Richard Strauss and Mae West |
| From the Back Verandah
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Fizzgig | Pencils |
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Wagner Fest |
Tony Rogers |
The Editor explains what's on offer here |
| Why All the Fuss? | Spud Money | A tongue-in-cheek sketch of what Richard Wagner's four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen is famous for |
| The Ring in Australia | Tony Rogers | The importance of the 1998 production in Adelaide, South Australia, of the Ring |
| Gaudeat Auditor | Tony Rogers | The best bits of the Ring and other Wagner works the newcomer should listen to |
| Enter an Archetypal Zealot | Tony Rogers | A parody of I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General (from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance) |
| Detective Story | The Wanderer | Wagner and Inspector Morse |
| A Ring of Pilgrims | Bet Briggs | The responses of five different people to the Ring: author Mark Twain, composer Anton Bruckner, German scholar John Robertson and his wife Ethel (novelist Henry Handel Richardson) and an ordinary man called Jim |
| The Tin Voice Laughed | Olive Conduit | Failed soprano Anna makes good as a musical humourist |
| Wagner's Revolutionary Years | Joan Willmott-Clarke | Wagner and the aftermath of the upheavals of 1848 |
| Web Line | Tony Rogers | A few Web sites devoted to Wagner |
| The Power of the Feminine | Clare Hansson | Woman as Wagner's Muse |
| Down Limerick Lane | Various | One limerick from NonesuCH, and another double-barrelled one from the Editor |
| Quintessential Quirky Quotes | Various | A surfeit of 16 jocular/sardonic quotes about Wagner and his music from Beachcomber, Sir Thomas Beecham, Ambrose Bierce, Claude Debussy, George Eliot, James Huneker, Frank Muir, Bill Nye, David Randolph, Gioachino Rossini (2), Anna Russell, Igor Stravinsky, Oscar Wilde and Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| A French Connection | Bet Briggs | The influence of Wagner on literary France in the 1880s |
| A Word in Your Pink Shell-like | Harlish Goop | Fifteen anagrams with a Wagner twist |
| The Therapist Prescribes . . . | Peter Wimsey
and I.Q. Lowe |
An egocentric psychologist recommends the healing power of Wagner to a disturbed Billy Bunter loving tango man |
| Is There a Believer in the House? | Tony Rogers | One man's story of how he came under the spell of Wagner's music |
| "A Gripping Drama . . ." | Alfred E. Watson | A satirical review of the first performance in England of the complete Ring (from Punch, 1882) |
| An Australian Brünnhilde | Bet Briggs | The career of soprano Florence Austral |
| Where Three Ways Meet | Tony Rogers | A tiny representative miscellany of all that Wagnerian trivia out there, partly sedate, but mainly droll |
| Wagner the Innovator | E. Roy Strong | The vision, the leitmotivs, the orchestra pit, the orchestration |
| Ring-Barking Mad | Tony Rogers | Another parody, this time of Joyce Kilmer's Trees |
| From the Back Verandah
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Fizzgig | Wagner's music at the movies |
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In Danger of Being Swamped by Ancients |
Tony Rogers |
How about more input to Bikwil from the literate young? |
| Big Ben Strikes Again: Reactions to Our Special Wagner Issue | Various | Comments from Cecil Bieder-Mill, The Brandenburg Gatekeeper, The Full M. Python, Charles Marks (retd.) and Katisha |
| Programming with Grace | Tony Rogers | The life and work of computer pioneer Grace Hopper (1906-92) |
| Naturalisti al'Poltrona | Giorni | A weekend back-packing campout |
| A Word in Your Pink Shell-like | Harlish Goop | More on Jabberwocky and Bandersnatch-like language |
| Quintessential Quirky Quotes | Various | Quotes from Sir Thomas Beecham, Robert Benchley, W.C. Fields, Spike Milligan and some Graffiti |
| The Vantage Point | Lavinia Godfrey | "The storm is gathering . . ." |
| Web Line | Tony Rogers | "Surely the Net has something on the Carry On films?" |
| A Grace Note for George | Bet Briggs | A poem for the Gershwin Centenary |
| Larick and the Aratronts (2) | Harlish Goop | A second paglet in Bandersnatch |
| From the Back Verandah
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Fizzgig | A note on jazz musician Jimmy Giuffre (b. 1921) |
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Tally Ho! |
Tony Rogers |
"The results of our recent survey on whether to charge for Bikwil are in, counted and applauded" |
| Puddin' 'n' Pie | Tony Rogers | Some words of appreciation for English actor Richard Griffiths (b. 1947) |
| Where Three Ways Meet | Sockrates | A score and more remarkable Presidential Coincidences |
| Nocturne | Bet Briggs | Some quiet jazz piano playing inspired this poem |
| A Word in Your Pink Shell-like | Harlish Goop | Time to tidy up some loose ends |
| Telephone Exchange | E. Roy Strong | One of the tallish tales from Come Spin Us a Yarn Sleepy Jack |
| Quintessential Quirky Quotes | Various | Quotes from Dan Quayle, George Bernard Shaw, Rev. Sydney Smith, Mark Twain and P.G. Wodehouse |
| Web Line | Tony Rogers | Four sites featuring Australian train travel |
| From the Back Verandah | Fizzgig | The story behind the famous "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" |
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