← Back
Cover of Holding Your Eight Hands: An Anthology of Science Fiction Verse

Holding Your Eight Hands: An Anthology of Science Fiction Verse

Edward Lucie-Smith

First published 1969
Publisher Doubleday
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Pages xix+120
Price $1.95

The Doubleday paperback edition is the first publication of Holding Your Eight Hands. Doubleday edition: 1969 Contento's 'Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections' has this by mistake as hardcover. Ruth Lechlitner's name is spelled "Lechtliner" within. "Cover design by Milton Glaser" on back cover of Archive.org copy.

No ISBN on record — searching by title and author.

AbeBooks Amazon ThriftBooks WorldCat Open Library

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Progression of the Species Brian W. Aldiss Poem
3 A Beloved Head Michael Benedikt Poem
5 The Gardeners Asa Benveniste Poem
7 The Basilisk D. M. Black Poem
9 My Species D. M. Black Poem
11 To Myself on the Occasion of My Twenty-first Century John Brunner Poem
13 A Magus John Ciardi Poem
14 An End to Complacency Barry Cole Poem
17 The Men Are Coming Back! Barry Cole Poem
18 Frankenstein John Robert Colombo Poem
19 Far Out Robert Conquest Poem
23 The Golden Age Robert Conquest Poem
24 Report Back John Cotton (poet) Poem
27 Narcissus Thomas M. Disch Poem
31 A Vacation on Earth Thomas M. Disch Poem
32 The Day Euterpe Died Thomas M. Disch Poem
33 We'll All Be Spacemen Before We Die Mike Evans (I) Poem
34 A Report Ruth Fainlight Poem
35 Beyond Astronaut John Fairfax Poem
36 How the Consolations of Philosophy Worked Out in Actual Practice Anthony Haden-Guest Poem
37 From an Ecclesiastical Chronicle John Heath-Stubbs Poem
38 Galactic Lovepoem Adrian Henri Poem
42 Ghost Crabs Ted Hughes Poem
44 The Invaders Ronald Johnson Poem
46 Weather Forecast David Kilburn Poem
47 The Artist Kenneth Koch Poem
56 A Winter's Tale Ruth Lechlitner Poem
58 An Expostulation C. S. Lewis Poem
59 Nyarlathotep H. P. Lovecraft Poem
60 Harbour Whistles H. P. Lovecraft Poem
61 Afterwards Edward Lucie-Smith Poem
62 In the Future Edward Lucie-Smith Poem
63 The Crab-Apple Crisis George MacBeth Short Story
71 Circe Undersea or a Cry from the Depths George MacBeth Poem
75 Bedtime Story George MacBeth Poem
77 Mother Superior George MacBeth Poem
78 In Sobieski's Shield Edwin Morgan Poem
81 From the Domain of Arnheim Edwin Morgan Poem
83 Poem Jeff Nuttall Poem
84 Wouldn't You After a Jaunt of 964,000,000,000,000 Million Miles? Kenneth Patchen Poem
85 Perhaps Where He Is Only Loving Rockets Can Land Brian Patten Poem
86 A Small Dragon Brian Patten Poem
87 Your Attention Please Peter Porter Poem
89 To Start a Controversy Peter Porter Poem
91 Ah the Poetry of Miss Parrot's Feet Demonstrating the Tango Tom Raworth Poem
92 Mr. Waterman Peter Redgrove Short Story
95 The Wizard's New Meeting Peter Redgrove Poem
97 Love Nest John Sladek Poem
101 The Treasure of the Haunted Rambler John Sladek Poem
103 Tithonus D. M. Thomas Poem
107 Missionary D. M. Thomas Poem
110 The Head-Rape D. M. Thomas Poem
111 Everybody's Homesick Soldier Boy Jonathan Williams Poem
113 Biographical Notes (Holding Your Eight Hands: An Anthology of Science Fiction Verse) uncredited Essay
11|11.2 Citizen Bacillus John Brunner Poem
33|33.2 Mushrooms Mike Evans (I) Poem
38|38.2 Universes Adrian Henri Poem
xiii Introduction (Holding Your Eight Hands) Edward Lucie-Smith Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Holding Your Eight Hands: An Anthology of Science Fiction Verse Cover 1970 Rapp & Whiting Hardcover Anthology xix+120