This issue features an odd radio-play, a dialogue between a man and a woman, actually, the man asks questions, and the woman tells a story of politics, the press and gambling. The moral vagueness of the work is interesting — the pretension here is that the woman someone doesn’t get that her betting obsession is wrong — but the characters are pretty flat. The guy, I guess, turns out to be some sort of counselor, which is a let-down, and the woman, who starts off seeming very canny, becomes a lot dumber than she should be. At any rate, every issue of Barbed Wire is different, essays, polemics, dialogues. Bill’s the kind of guy who knows what he wants to say, but actually stops to think about how he might get his point across. Send him a big envelope, and you will likely get a week’s worth of interesting reading.
lit-zine / #12, 10 pages / main creator: Bill Scott / free / PO Box 553, CPO Regina, SK S4P 3A3