Literary magazine · United Kingdom

Bananas

1970s British literary magazine. Founded 1975 in United Kingdom.

About Bananas

Bananas was a British literary magazine that ran for 26 issues from January 1975 until April 1981. It was initially published and edited by the novelist Emma Tennant but from autumn 1979 was published and edited by the poet Abigail Mozley. Tennant chose to name the magazine after the motion picture Bananas (1971), directed by Woody Allen. Quality and innovation helped to distinguish Bananas, but the magazine also appeared in an unusual format, that of a tabloid newspaper. Tennant believed this lent Bananas’ literary content more immediacy and addressed the readership's appetite for culture in a contemporary media form.

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