Chris Challis
“There will arise by a mighty river near London, England, a tribe of Tantriks who will remain undefeated in battle.”
From an Old Tantrik text.
Chris
Challis
Author of
Quest For
Kerouac
Faber and Faber 1984
“Gradually the uniform arrived — largely practical — boots, jeans, black sweater, Army surplus coat. And there was one pub in any town where you got a drink, even if the others turned you away because of your hair. The Saracen’s in Chelmsford, the Newmarket in Colchester and so on. We all knew these names — from grapevine gossip — and you’d head there when you landed up in Stratford or Leeds or Winchester, and here wd be kindred spirits.
And, of course, there was the great adventure of St. Ives. And how many of us went on to Katmandhu and Kabul after cutting our teeth down there? And all with a copy of OTR in the coat pocket.” — Chris Challis.
Extracted from an eighties letter to Dave Cunliffe.
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- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
- ARTEMISpoetry
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- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
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- Erbacce
- Fabric
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- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
- Global Tapestry
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- Homeless Diamonds
- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
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- Magma
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- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
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- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
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- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
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- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The