Frank Auerbach (Head of E.O.W), Craigie Atchison (Tree and Wall Landscape).Drawings': Alberto Giacometti (Head; plans for 'The Dream, the Sphinx and the Death of T.'), André Masson (Illustrations for 'Dissonances') Quotes about David Wright's and Patrick Swift's legendary X set the common agenda for a generation of European painters, writers and dramatists. Michael Schmidt, The Guardian, 2006 A remarkable publication which, in some respects, was light years ahead of its time. Brian Fallon (chief arts critic to The Irish Times for 35 years) Brilliant but short-lived. Cambridge paperback guide to Literature in EnglishX is a magazine dedicated to genius, passion and intelligence. It has the ease and authority of all excellent creations.Time and TideX is beautifully designed and well printed; in fact it has finally established a standard of production which other and future literary periodicals will have to live up to. Paul Potts, Literary feast, Tribune, 1960 One can't say that X is an unknown quantity any more... It's the Counter-Revolution.New Statesman, 1960 It certainly fills a need, for none of our established magazines can be described as a workshop for new talent... The art articles are outstanding—the young or less-known painters benefit from the handsome format and from the excellence of their own prose styles; some intelligent editing is going on here... X is performing a real service... Individualism, an interest in the soul, a respect for our revolutionary past, indifference to the topical label, a love of good painting and something rather painstaking which is not afraid of dullness, characterizes this new quarterly. Cyril Connolly, The Sunday TimesWe were out to provide a platform for the individual vision, not accepted avant-gardisme or second-hand attitudes. David Wright in Poetry NationThe purpose behind the whole operation was to nurture the 'anarchic volatile centre' of creativity in the arts and to promote 'the unknown and the neglected or the known but unhonoured'. CJ Fox (Canadian journalist and critic) References Bibliography and further reading An Anthology from X, selected by David Wright (Oxford University Press, 1988) X, Volume 1, Numbers 1-4, November 1959-October 1960 (Barrie & Rockliff 1961). Limited to 800 copies. Hardcover. Lilly Library, Indiana University Bloomington: X magazine files The British Library: full collection of X, Volume One & Volume Two (search under: 'X. A Quarterly Review etc.') David Wright Obituary - The Independent David Wright - Poetry Nation The Chameleon Poet: A Life of George Barker, Robert Fraser