title: Second Aeon
text: # Second Aeon
  
  Second Aeon was a British literary periodical published from late 1966 to early 1975. It ran for 21 issues and was edited by Peter Finch. A spin-off of the magazine was Second Aeon Publications, a series of booklets, broadsheets and bound volumes that eventually reached 100 in number.
  
  ## Issues and contributors
  
  ### Issue 1
  
  late 1966
  
  Peter Finch
  
  ### Issue 2
  
  June, 1967
  
  Wes Magee, Adrian Mitchell, and others
  
  ### Issue 3
  
  September, 1967
  
  Stephen Morris, Anna Scher, and others
  
  ### Issue 4
  
  early 1968
  
  Brian Wake, Peter Hoida, Paul Green, and others
  
  ### Issue 5
  
  mid 1968
  
  Adrian Henri, Mike Horovitz, Chris Torrance, and others
  
  ### Issue 6
  
  late 1968
  
  David Roberts, Jim Burns, J. Gwyn Griffiths, Bob Cobbing, Allen Ginsberg, Raymond Garlick, Alan Jackson, and Umberto Saba
  
  ### Issue 7
  
  early 1969
  
  d a levy, Brian Patten, Leroi Jones, John Fairfax, Tony Curtis and others
  
  ### Issue 8 & 9 (double)
  
  mid 1969
  
  William Wantling, Pablo Neruda, Iain Sinclair, Doug Blazek, Roger McGough, Martin Booth, and Alan Sillitoe
  
  ### Issue 10
  
  December, 1969
  
  Edwin Morgan, Peter Mayer, Harry Guest, Gene Fowler, Alan Bold, Barry MacSweeney, Alan Perry, Gary Snyder, Paul Evans, and others.
  
  ### Issue 11
  
  1970
  
  Jeff Nuttall, John Ormond, James Blish, Owen Davis, Pete Hoida, and others
  
  ### Issue 12
  
  1970
  
  Dannie Abse, George Barker, Frances Horovitz, Peter Redgrove, Tom Raworth, John Tripp, Paul Brown, Henri Chopin, and others.
  
  ### Issue 13
  
  1971
  
  Robert Bly, Charles Bukowski, Emyr Humphreys, John James, George Macbeth, Yukio Mishima, Penelope Shuttle, David Tipton, Tristan Tzara, Herbert Williams, Jennifer Pike, Ian Robinson, and others
  
  ### Issue 14
  
  1972
  
  Alan Bold, Tom Phillips, Bill Butler, Roy Fuller, Marilyn Hacker, D. M. Thomas, Octavio Paz, Leslie Norris, Susan Musgrave, Edward Lucie-Smith, Federico García Lorca, Kris Hemensley and others
  
  ### Issue 15
  
  1973
  
  Michael Butterworth, Cid Corman, D. M. Black, Robert Desnos, John Digby, Clayton Eshleman, Ruth Feldman, Raymond Garlick, Paul Gogarty, Harry Guest, Adrian Henri, Dick Higgins, John James, Eric Mottram, Cesare Pavese, Miklos Radnoti, R. S. Thomas, Gael Turnbull, Philip Whalen, and others.
  
  ### Issue 16-17
  
  1973
  
  Antipater of Sidon, William S. Burroughs, William Cox, Theodore Enslin, Duncan Glen, Yannis Goumas, Bill Griffiths, Holderlin, Peter Jay, Peter Levi, Nossis, Theodore Weiss, William Sherman, John Riley, Tom Pickard, Alexis Lykiard, and others.
  
  ### Issue 18
  
  1974
  
  Tom Phillips, Paul Celan, Stéphane Mallarmé, Tristan Tzara, Cesare Pavese, David Black, Tony Conran, Gavin Ewart, Jack Hirschman, Alan Jackson, James Kirkup, John Wain, Charles Plymell, Thomas Tessier, and others
  
  ### Issue 19-21
  
  1975
  
  Antonin Artaud, Paul Auster, Harry Bell, Keith Bosley, René Char, Larry Eigner, Robin Fulton, Philip Holmes, Pierre Joris, John Montague, Susan Musgrave, Robert Nye, Benjamin Péret, William Rowe, Matt Simpson, David Tipton, Tomas Tranströmer, Vallejo, John Welch, J. L. Wilkinson, and others
  
  