Item K/PP106/7/602/1-20 - Spanner, 1975-1992

Spanner 2 (London, 1975), magazine founded by Allen Fisher and Richard Miller in 1974: contains, 'Ironwork' by Martin Thom;

Issue 3, 1975: features David Mayor and Fluxshoe;

Issue 9, 1977: 'Dick Higgins in conversation with Eric Mottram';

Issue 10, 1977: 'A tale of Peter, and other poems' by John Welch;

Issue 14, 1978: includes American strange by Bern Porter;

Issue 16, 1978: Kevin Power in conversation with Michael McClure;

Issue 17, 1979: Christopher Jones issue, with insert, 'Once its typed its published' about microfiches;

The New York Spanner, with red cover motif, 1978;

The New York Spanner, with green cover motif, 1979;

The New York Spanner, with blue cover motif, 1980;

Issue 19-20, 1980: work by Allen Fisher and E. E. Vonna-Michell, with folded insert, 'Five events' by Ken Friedman;

Issue 20, Supplement, 1982: comprises E. E. Vonna-Michell's A Reinhold placed near;

A Spanner Special, 1981: titled, 'January 1981: a painting', constructed out of pages printed by individual contributors including Paul Brown, Paul Buck, Robin Crozier, Ulli Freer, Peter Mayer, Paige Mitchell and Lawrence Upton;

Issue 23, 1983: Charles Olson: his only weather, a study by Clive Meachen;

Issue 24, 1983: includes five photographs by Tony Baylis from Allen Fisher's ballgum jars, and insert booklet by Frank Sussaman;

Issue 25, 1985: 'Necessary business: a text produced by Allen Fisher from the works of Cris Cheek, Eric Mottram and J. H. Prynne';

Issue 29, 1990: comprises Mottram's, 'Beat Generation chart' and 'Notes for Feldman lecture, Tate Gallery';

Issue 30, 1991: comprises poems, Working the signs by Will Rowe;

Spanual 1 (London, 1974-1977), binds together issues 1-10;

Spanual 2 (London, 1977-1980), binds together Spanner, issues 11-20, with insert, 'Once it's typed it's published' by Chris Jones, about microfiches;

(Note: for Spanner 4, 1975, including essay by David Miller on Christopher Middleton and John Riley, see MOTTRAM 5 / Miller;

for issue 5, 1975, comprising a set of poems, 'Wasichi', by Ken Smith, see at MOTTRAM 5 / Smith;

for issue 8, see at MOTTRAM 5 / Maillard;

for issue 15, 1978, comprising Mottram essay 'The wild good and the heart ultimately: Ginsberg's art of persuasion', see MOTTRAM 5 /Ginsberg;

for issue 18, 1980, Improvisations by Paul Buck, see MOTTRAM 5 / Buck; for issue 22, 1981, Soft in the brains by Ralph Hawkins, see MOTTRAM 5 / Hawkins; for Spanner, Special Issue 'Clothes', 1983-1984, see MOTTRAM 7 / Clothes; for Spanner: Open field 3, 1984, comprising poem, 'Mud' by Cris Cheek, see MOTTRAM 5 / Cheek; for issue 26, 1986, comprising poem, 'Keep the curtains the farce is ended' by Gilbert Adair, see MOTTRAM 5 / Adair; for issue 27, 1987, comprising essay on 'Paul Goodman' by David Miller, see MOTTRAM 5 / Goodman; for issue 28 (Hereford, 1990) comprising, 'Tonkin Mundane' by Paige Mitchell, see MOTTRAM 5 / Mitchell; for issue 31, 1992, see MOTTRAM 5 / Griffiths)