Table of Contents
Author | Title | # |
Preface | 7 | |
Alan Rudrum | Narrative, Typology and Politics in Henry Vaughan’s ‘Isaac’s Marriage’ | 9 |
Chris Torrance | PATH/Finder | 19 |
Edwina Trentham | Calling My Father By Name | 22 |
Angela Morton | Traces | 23 |
William Oxley | Memory, Snowflakes | 25 |
Dilys Wood | Singularity | 27 |
Clare Crossman | Writing Back | 28 |
Viki Holmes | The Visitor | 30 |
Pat Earnshaw | Everyone a Stranger | 32 |
Richard George | Reliving the Calendar | 33 |
Lynne Wycherley | Fragments of Iraqi Calligraphy | 34 |
Merryn Williams | After Mandelstam | 35 |
Fiona Owen | This Even Frailer Flesh | 37 |
Tony Connor | Hay making | 53 |
Jay Ramsay | The Boreen | 55 |
Phil Maillard | The Press of Silence. A Walk to Patricio | 57 |
Christine McNeil] | Expedition | 67 |
Kim Taplin | A Road ro Dover | 69 |
Jeremy Hooker | From ‘Upstate: a North American Journal’ | 77 |
Rowan Williams | Invocation: a sculpture for winter | 86 |
Jeremy Hooker | Towards Elsinore | 87 |
John Welch | Turning | 92 |
Daybreak | 92 | |
Family | 93 | |
Greagir O Duill | Tideline | 94 |
Graham Hartill | Winged Heads | 95 |
Ruth Bidgood | Patricio 2001 | 99 |
Pattern | 99 | |
Lucy Calcott | Maundy Thursday | 101 |
Michael Srigley | Flowers in Rich Fields: The Poetry of Thomas Vaughan’s Pamphlets | 103 |
Open Poetry Competition | ||
Adjudications | 124 | |
Short Poems | ||
James Harpur | The Monastic Star Timetable (1st Prize) | 129 |
Jemma Borg | The Pond (2nd Prize) | 131 |
Brett Van Toen | Bullfrogs (3rd Prize) | 132 |
Short Poems – Commended | ||
Helen Burke | The Lace-worker of Ghent | 133 |
Rose Flint | Grace | 134 |
Mary MacRae | Flycatcher | 135 |
John Weston | To Alaska and Back | 136 |
Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch | Lipstick | 137 |
Long Poems | ||
Alyson Hallett | The Storm Trilogy (1st Prize) | 140 |
Myra Schneider | Orpheus in the Underground (2nd Prize) | 146 |
M. C. Newton | Beliefs Broad and Narrow (3rd Prize) | 155 |
Long Poems – Commended | ||
James Harpur | Joseph of Arimathea | 160 |
Greg Hill | Myddleton’s River | 166 |
Mary MacRae | Shades of Grey | 170 |
Philip Rush | How to Listen to Classical Music | 172 |
Maria Jastrzebska | Carrying Her | 174 |
Glyn Pursglove | Taught him at the well: reflections on ‘Isaac’s Marriage’ | 178 |
Gary Allen | New Year | 191 |
Simon Pettifar | To the Clerk of the Meeting when the Sufis Came to Speak to Us | 192 |
Laughing Poem | 192 | |
Incense | 193 | |
Mercer Simpson | At Malmesbury Abbey | 194 |
Daphne Gloag | Turning a Square intO an Octagon | 195 |
Kate Foley | Wellington Boots | 197 |
Bill Shepherd | Genesis | 199 |
John Powell Ward | The Last Green Year | 201 |