Hello again, and a warm welcome to issue
three which we hope you will find enjoyable and stimulating.
We are delighted to continue with a mixture of new and established writers,
and hope that the feedback to this issue will be as plentiful as the
last.
You will be used, by now, to me prompting in every editorial for contributions
and feedback so this time I will… well, actually, I’ll do
so again! Please, this enterprise is both for and by you. Send
your articles and letters - or take the easier route and persuade others
to do the same - to: editor@judasmagazine.com or to the postal address
on the facing page.
Paula Radice wrote to me to say that by concentrating on one aspect
of John Gibben’s book The Nightingale’s Code Alan Davis’s
article may have inadvertently given people the impression she found
the book ‘uninteresting’, whereas, in her own words, she is
of the opinion that it is ‘an intelligent, beautifully written
and thought-provoking piece of work’. Alan’s article was
purely a response to a specific aspect of John’s essay in Judas!
issue one, and he apologises for any unintended implication that Paula
was uninterested in or dismissive of John’s ideas.
Speaking of books, I may have to set up a book review policy on the
hoof, as it were, as the next six months is going to bring a flood of
Dylan titles: An anthology of academics’ articles’, Do
You Mr. Jones? Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors, ed. Neil
Corcoran, John Hinchley’s Like a Complete Unknown: The Poetry
of Bob Dylan's Songs, 1961-1969, Olof Björner’s Olof's
Files: A Bob Dylan Performance Guide, Stephen Scobie’s Alias
Revisited, Professor Ricks’s book, working title A Vision
of Sin, and, you never know, perhaps my own Troubadour, if
there is room on such a crowded shelf. I haven’t even mentioned
‘possible’ releases such as a completed, cheeky and cheerful
tour diary called Red, White and Blue Shoestrings. On a whole
other level to all these is the mooted December release of Dylan’s
own book, volume one of Chronicles. If there is not room in the
magazine itself to cover all these publications, we will do so on our
website.
In issue one I wrote ‘we hope to create a special, interactive
on-line Judas! readers’ community too’. We are now putting
this in place. If you visit www.judasmagazine.com you will find the
first of the new sections.
Thanks to all who passed on their congratulations, best wishes and advice
to Judas! at the ‘John Green Day’. We trust we’ll
keep providing you with the magazine you want. On that note, all of
you loved the photographs in issue 2, so we’ll persuade Duncan
Hume to offer us more for issue four. Here’s number 3 with special
thanks to Jim Callahan.
