The ALS produces an annual journal, ALSo... Apart
from the two free copies given out to member societies, this journal is also available to purchase.
Journal
themes:
2007: Copyright and Censorship - including articles on Betjeman, Henry Reed, John
Clare, Parson Woodforde, George Borrow, Wyndham Lewis.
2008: Literary Tourism - including articles on Haworth Village, John Clare's Cottage, Knutsford as Cranford,
Mark Rutherford's Bedford, the Nancy Blackett, Neil Munro, and Laurence Sterne.
2009: Beyond Text - including a piece by Aeronwy Thomas on musical accompaniment to poetry, and articles on The
Phenomenon of the Classic Serial, Finding Words for the Forest: John Clare in Fineshade Wood, The Austen Effect,
'I Am' Doors (arts project), and Reaching Towards Meaning.
2010:
Regional Writing - opening with an article by Ronald Blythe and including pieces on H E Bates, George Borrow, Elizabeth Gaskell,
Arthur Ransome, and Sir Walter Scott.
2011: Lost in Translation - exploring various issues with translating
text and including John Clare, P G Wodehouse, Angela Thirkell and George Eliot.
Available at £4.00
including postage and packing to members (£7 to non members). Send name and address, indicating which edition(s),
along with cheque (made payable to the Alliance of Literary Societies) to ALSo Editor, 59 Bryony Road, Birmingham
B29 4BY.
