Orig­i­nally formed in 1914 by the great poly­math Wal­ter Leach­man, Ben­za­noe Mag­a­zine was based on his def­i­n­i­tion of a new word, which he had hoped to intro­duce into the Eng­lish lan­guage: “Ben­za­noe is not a place, it isn’t a state of mind. It’s a utopia… a fac­tion of your imagination”.

With a view to ful­fill­ing Leachman’s orig­i­nal ambi­tion it was re-launched in July 2010. The release of issue 63 adding another chap­ter to its already sprawl­ing history.

Leachman’s orig­i­nal man­i­festo from 1914 is out­lined in the fol­low­ing quote:

“Har­ness­ing the spirit of the dawn, and with heads full of utopian dreams, we go in search of Ben­za­noe. For­ever cor­rect­ing our course, with no accor­dance with com­mis­sion or com­pro­mise. Ignor­ing the lag between mem­ory and vision, we con­tinue. Though we may never find it, imag­ine what we will cre­ate along the way.”