and Wright first discussed the idea of creating a new literary magazine, a quarterly which would publish writing on artistic issues they felt to be of importance. David Wright: <blockquote> I met Swift in (to quote his words) "the bohemian jungle of Soho, where practitioners of arts and letters were thick on the ground, though not professors of these activities". And in a sense X was born in that Bohemian jungle, a society which, as I now realize, was as extraordinary as it was short-lived.<ref>'David Wright's introduction to 'An Anthology from X (Oxford University Press 1988)</ref> </blockquote>David Wright had worked for The Sunday Times and edited Nimbus in 1956. Swift had contributed to Nimbus as well as Irish art periodicals, Envoy and The Bell. X: Volume One, Number One – Volume Two, Number Three Volume One, Number One, November 1959 George Barker Circular from AmericaAnthony Cronin The Notion of CommitmentHugh MacDiarmid Two Poems (Song of the Serapim; Reflections in a Slum) Patrick Swift (under the pseudonym James Mahon) Official Art and the Modern PainterFrank Auerbach Fragments from a ConversationSamuel Beckett L’ImageRobert Pinget SimultaneouslyPatrick Kavanagh Two Poems (Living in the Country; Lecture Hall) Anthony Cronin (under the pseudonym Martin Gerard) Is Your Novel Really Necessary?Stevie Smith Two Poems (The Last Turn of the Screw; Thoughts about a Person from Porlock) Ghika Contemporary Relations between Painting, Sculpture, Architecture.Alberto Giacometti The Dream, the Sphinx, and the Death of T.René Daumal A Fundamental ExperimentDavid Gascoyne Remembering the DeadOn The MarginReproductions of paintings by Frank Auerbach, and a drawing by Alberto Giacometti.Volume One, Number Two, March 1960 Anthony Cronin R.M.S. TitanicGeorge Barker How to Refuse a Heavenly House Boris Pasternak November DaysMichel St. Denis Remembering Two Friends (Matthew Smith and Albert Camus) Anthony Cronin (under the pseudonym Martin Gerard) Goodbye to All That: A Child's Guide to Two DecadesMary Hutchinson Kaleidoscope of ChildhoodCharles-Albert Cingria Green Wood and DryMichael Andrews Notes and PreoccupationsOskar Kokoschka Lettre de VoyagePoets on Poetry: IHugh MacDiarmid Vernon Watkins Patrick Kavanagh Stevie SmithOn The MarginReproductions of drawings by Michael Andrews, Oskar Kokoschka and René Auberjonois, and of a painting by Michael Andrews. Volume One, Number Three, June 1960 Brian Higgins Five Poems; and Two Poems Robert Graves November 5th AddressPatrick Kavanagh The Flying MomentDavid Bomberg The Bomberg PapersH.A. Gomperts Hunting to LiveAndré Masson DissonancesMarie Riefstahl-Nordlinger On Reading 'Marcel Proust - a BiographyGeorge Barker VIII Beatitudes to Denver Patrick Swift Prolegomenon to George