Table of Contents
Author | Title | # |
Preface | 7 | |
Rowan Williams | Has Secularism Failed’: Notes on the Survival of the Spirit | 9 |
E. J. Matyjaszek | A View from Lublin | 21 |
Mario Petrucci | Pyre-Watchers | 23 |
Tony Connor | Drawing A War Plane | 25 |
Lucy Calcorc | The Dark Mad Voice | 27 |
Dannie Abse | Ants | 29 |
Graham Hartill | Llancillin | 30 |
John Welch | Being Creative | 35 |
Lynne Wycherley | The Writing Room | 40 |
The Miracle of the Clay Birds | 41 | |
Ali Glenny | Josefa Paints an Onion | 42 |
Zoe Brigley | Canopy | 44 |
Brian Walsham | Bird-fancier | 45 |
Phil Poole | Autumn | 47 |
Larry Burler | Bay Window | 48 |
Phil Maillard | Dysphasia | 49 |
Michael Srigley | Once | 51 |
Myra Schneider | A Deep but Dazzling Darkness: Writing Poetry in Extremity 53 | 53 |
Hilary Llewellyn-Williams | The Badge | 62 |
Myra Schneider | Moth | 64 |
Greve! Lindop | The Wineglass | 66 |
Lance Lee | Haunting | 67 |
Gary Allen | Walls | 69 |
DilysWood | John Heath-Stubbs Reading at the Troubadour | 70 |
John Powell Ward | Darkness and Light: Poetry, Religion and the Environment | 73 |
Caroline Price | Hawkmoth larva surprised in August | 87 |
Anna Adams | Arrival of the Swifts | 89 |
Rose Flint | Above Saint Cybi’s Well | 91 |
Anne Cluysenaar | This Much | 93 |
Elsewhere | 94 | |
Strange | 95 | |
Together | 96 | |
Alyson Hallett | Dropped, like a stitch | 97 |
Holly Faith Nelson | Gender and Politics in the Writings of Henry Vaughan | 99 |
Richard Burns | Wayside Shrine | 116 |
On the Death of Kate Landers | 120 | |
Ian Caws | Rose | 122 |
Paul Groves | Phantom Faces in the Floor of a House at Belmez | 124 |
Malanie Challenge | Teeth | 126 |
Maggie Butt | Fathering | 127 |
Shanta Acharya | Midnight Stroll | 128 |
Donald R. Dickson | The Identity of Rebecca Archer Vaughan | 129 |
Open Poetry Competition | 143-183 | |
Adjudications | 146 | |
Short Poems | ||
Pamela Vincent | Losing It (1st Prize) | 150 |
Liz Cashdan | Red (2nd Prize) | 151 |
Juanita Bateman | Missing (3rd Prize) | 152 |
Short Poems – Commended | ||
Pat Earnshaw | Darken Our Lightness | 154 |
Clive Eastwood | To Do With Moving On | 155 |
Fiona Owen | Walk | 157 |
Lynne Rees | Snap | 158 |
Anna Wigley | After Snow | 159 |
Longer Poems | ||
John Freeman | Tabula Rasa (1st Prize) | 162 |
Mary MacRae | A sort of homecoming (2nd Prize) | 166 |
Carol Hughes | The Floe Edge (3rd Prize) | 171 |
Longer Poems – Commended | ||
Roy Ashwell | A Series | 176 |
Liz Cashdan | One Way or Another | 178 |
Lucy Hamilton | Being with Annette | 181 |
Helen Wilcox | Scribling under so faire a Coppy: the presence of Herbert in the poetry of Vaughan’s contemporaries | 185 |
D.S. Hall | The Unrepeatable Assembly | 201 |