various paginations, from 20pp. to 80pp., 28 issues, illus., paperback, Cape Town, 1983-1989
From Vol 1, No. 1 to Vol. 5, No. 1 Upstream was edited by Alan James and it was 'a quarterly magazine of poetry'. Douglas Reid Skinner (sometimes with Mike Nicol) edited Upstream from Vol. 5, No. 2 to the last issue Vol. 7, No. 4 and it was 'a magazine of poetry, fiction, essays & reviews". Contributors include Damon Galgut, Breyten Breytenbach, Sipho Sepamla, Antjie Krog, Gus Ferguson, Bill Nasson, Stephen Watson, J.M. Coetzee, Zoe Wicomb and many others. A full run.