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Free Style Twippledop and Other Editorial Oozings (The Zed #780) (including an essay on filksong writing) by Karen and Poul Anderson writing as P. A. Kingsley
From the June 1955 mailing of SAPS.
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Further investigation with Karen elicited the information "'Petronius Arbiter Kingsley' was a made-up name for a nonexistent contributor to The Zed. Zed is an alternate name for the last letter of the alphabet; the fanzine's full but not-always-used title was Die Zeitschrift für Vollstandigen Unsinn, The Journal for Utter Nonsense. Its first issue was numbered 771. 'Voldesfan,' for Volatile Destructive Fan, was my coinage as an antonym for Sercon-fan." In a later email, she said, "If it's bylined by Kingsley, it was probably by both Poul and me."
Traveling yet further back in time, to the 26th SAPS distribution, Winter, 1953, on page #22 of Die Zeitschrift für Vollstandigen Unsinn #774 by Karen Kruse Anderson is...the first-known song published as a filk song [123k scan] - written (see the note in The Zed #780) by Poul Anderson.
--Lee Gold
See the
Dandelion Report for more info about filking.
![the first-known song published as a filk song [123k scan]](barbarousAllen.gif){kind=link}