As we all know the film Oppenheimer is currently of big interest.
Here is something as a lead for a features article to tie in with that current Oppenheimer topicality:-
Back in the early 1980s a new short lived Poetry Magazine burst into the Swansea Literary scene called “Element Five”.
It published works by many emerging and established well known Anglo Welsh Poets like Nigel Jenkins; Val Torrance; Janet Dube of the that time. It was published by Andy Sanderson (I don’t know where he is now) using a Roneo Hand Duplicator at his home at Mount Pleasant, Swansea.
The second edition of ‘ELEMENT FIVE’ May 1982 contained a visionary short anthology by John Tripp, a former Soldier, Poet and Journalist. This visionary collection within it was titled “The Road To Los Alamos” and was centered on Oppenheimer and Nuclear Weapons. If you can lay your hands on a copy of Element Five issue 2 May 1982 it would make a great feature story, for any journalist, on Oppenheimer – so topical now.
Profile details of John Tripp, the Poet of Bargoed and Cardiff, and of overseas as a soldier, and Journalist, can be found in an internet search via Wiki or Google but not the Magazine itself. I spent a memorable “beery wet day” with John Tripp and Nigel Jenkins and Harry Web once at a Pontardawe Folk Festival many years ago.
from Ioan Richard
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