Table of Contents
Author | Title | # |
Jeremy Hooker | Poetry of Touch | 9 |
Sue Proffitt | T he White Roebuck | 19 |
Ruth Bidgood | New Year Dream | 21 |
Meredith Andrea | Pipistrelle | 22 |
Sheila Bryer | Taking time | 23 |
Wave (1) | 24 | |
Myra Schneider | Water | 25 |
Fiona Owen | Imago | 26 |
Robert Wilcher | Henry Vaughan and the Poetry of Trees | 28 |
Martina T homson | The River Nairn | 52 |
Visitation | 53 | |
Memoir | 53 | |
Hilary Llewellyn-Williams | Vigil | 55 |
Lotte Kramer | First Avalanche | 56 |
Carrie Etter | No Swan | 57 |
Alison Brackenbury | No excuse | 58 |
Kept | 59 | |
Denise Bennett | At Hardy’s Cottage | 60 |
Anne Cluysenaar | Not As Usual | 61 |
Jill Eulalie Dawson | Erithracus Rubecula | 62 |
Glyn Pursglove | Edmund Blunden and Henry Vaughan: A Reminiscence and Some Observations | 63 |
Open Poetry Competition | ||
Adjudications | 82 | |
Short Poems | ||
Daphne Gloag | The radio clock | 87 |
Angela Morton | Between the moving shadows | 89 |
Meredith Andrea | Jug | 91 |
Short Poems – Commended | ||
Pat Borthwick | The Spiny Mud Loach | 93 |
Heather Coffey | Legacy | 95 |
Janice Fixter | Only the camel knows | 96 |
Kate Foley | Tikkun Olam | 97 |
Ted Walter | My Place or Theirs? | 99 |
Long Poems | ||
Philip Gross | Praise Song for the Taff | 101 |
Clare Holtham | Walter the Tramp | 104 |
Rose Flint | Afternoon, a Spit from the Road | 106 |
Long Poems – Commended | ||
Mark Leech | Saint and City | 108 |
Angela Morton | The Black and Silver Notebook | 119 |
Jane Rouch | The Private Life of ‘Lepus lepus’ | 123 |
K V Skene | Like the Heart Itself | 126 |
Margaret Wilmot | Good Friday, Greece, 2009 | 128 |
Jonathan Nauman | Alternative Saints: Eucherius and Silex Scintillans | 132 |
John Powell Ward | Thinking Allowed | 138 |
Anthony Watts | The Midwife | 142 |
John Daniel | On Buying a Book of Poems by a Modern French Poet | 144 |
Christine McNeill | Idyll | 145 |
Time | 146 | |
Graham Hartill | Under Old Fruit Trees | 147 |
Denise Inge | The Lost Public Concerns of Thomas Traherne | 149 |
Margaret Wilmot | My Aunt and Zbigniew Herbert | 158 |
Graham Hartill | Trouble with Light A personal introduction to the work of Ernest Becker | 168 |
Doiran Williams | Speech Therapy | 177 |
Kate Foley | The Myth of Snow and Love | 178 |
Gary Allen | Down ro the river | 179 |
van der Waals farm | 181 | |
Ted Walter | Company of Strangers | 183 |
Howard Wright | Museum Sunday | 186 |
Angela Morton | From the Far Side of Silence | 188 |
Artwork by Robert Greenhalf |