Table of Contents
Author | Title | # |
Roger Hubank | Trying to be Haunted’: Nature and Spirit in the later poetry of Denise Levertov | 9 |
Myra Schneider | Sutton Hoo | 33 |
James Aitchison | To Be A Pilgrim | 38 |
Tony Connor | In My Own Company | 39 |
Comfortable Cardigan | 39 | |
Anna Adams | It | 40 |
John Powell Ward | Spirituality and Doctrine | 42 |
John Powell Ward | Acceptable | 55 |
Gary Allen | The Cinder Patch | 56 |
Rowenna Hulton | Ball-flower, Worcester Cathedral | 57 |
Alison Brackenbury | The Shed | 58 |
First Thing | 59 | |
Sally Carr | Clearing Nettles | 60 |
Spadework | 61 | |
Anne Cluysenaar | Green Man | 62 |
Remembering a Memory of Snow | 63 | |
Christine McNeil! | Composing | 64 |
Joseph Sterrett | Such a Peace: Answered Prayer in Shakespeare’s ‘Late Plays” | 65 |
Mary MacRae | Blue Material | 84 |
In the Wood | 85 | |
Inside the Brightness of Red | 86 | |
Hillary Llewellyn-Williams | The Way to the Well | 88 |
Comfort in Blackthorn | 89 | |
Clare Crossman | Rocks, Stones, Water and the Rowan | 91 |
Hubert Moore | Ar Staplehurst | 93 |
Jeremy Hooker | For Roland Mathias: Tribute and Apology | 95 |
Open Poetry Competition | ||
Adjudications | ||
Short Poems | ||
Sue MacIntyre | Ice Sculpture | 109 |
Liz Cashdan | Epithalamion June 21st 2008 | 110 |
Russell Jones | Ness | 111 |
Short Poems – Commended | ||
Pat Earnshaw | We All Fall Down | 112 |
Roger Elkin | Delivering | 114 |
Edmund Matyjaszek | The Tr ees at Shalfleet | 116 |
Mandy Pannett | Memorial Chairs in the Wetlands | 117 |
Ted Walter | Fluff | 119 |
Long Poems | ||
Gabriel Griffin | Winter Afternoon on Mottarone | 121 |
Dilys Wood | The Salt Smell of Light | 125 |
Elizabeth Burns | Moon Over Catterline | 131 |
Long Poems – Commended | ||
Rosi Beech | The Monastery Garden | 134 |
Liz Cashdan | Land of Lost Content | 142 |
Roger Elkin | Birthday Gift | 146 |
David Grubb | The Saint Francis Poems | 151 |
Clare Holtham | The Simorgh | 155 |
Jonathan Nauman | Nieremberg’s Patience of the Saints: Experiencing Flores Solitudinis in Silex Scintillans | 160 |
Carole Coates | Writers’ Rooms | 175 |
Strange Meeting | 176 | |
Norman Schwenk | Fennel | 177 |
Garden | 177 | |
Ruth Bidgood | An Encounter | 179 |
Homecoming | 180 | |
Ann Quid | A Little Whimsy | 181 |
Jill Eulalie Dawson | Where She Leads Me | 182 |
Kate Foley | Green Woman | 183 |
Graham Parry | Vaughan and Laudianism | 185 |
Neil Curry | To: Mrs Anna Maria Smart, c/o The Reading Mercury, Reading, Berkshire | 197 |
Elizabeth Cook | The Tent | 199 |
Angela Morton | When Language Pales to Dust | 200 |
Snow Falling on this House of Glass | 201 | |
Rose Flint | Reciprocal | 202 |
Graham Hartill | Little Haven | 203 |
Colin Moss | The Gates of Wonder in Childhood and the Future | 206 |
Kenneth Steven | Lenin I Punishment | 221 |
John Daniel | Frog | 222 |
Elizabeth Barrett | Hem I Lighteater | 223 |
Fiona Owen | Summer Grasses | 224 |
Paul Matthews | Rain at Midnight | 229 |