This was the first issue of Rain Dog. It was going to be called Soup Dragon but the editors wrote to Oliver Postgate as a courtesy to see if they could use the name and he replied and said no.

Features poems by River Wolton, Emma-Jane Arkady, Howard Wright, Jo Somerset, Rosie Lugosi, Jane Routh, Nell Farrell, Alison Chisholm, P P Hartnett, Cathy Bolton, Phillip Davenport, Clare Prendergast, Kerry Andrew, Marilyn Longstaff, Suzanne Batty, Carol Batton, Sarah Corkhill, Steven Taylor, Eleanor Livingstone, Jan Whalen