Table of Contents
Author | Title | # |
Preface | 7 | |
Jeremy Hooker | Nostalgia and the Kiss of Life | 9 |
Ian Caws | Thistledown | 25 |
The Potter | 26 | |
Stephen Parr | Bridge of Mornings | 27 |
Peter Gruffydd | Matters of Survival | 29 |
Robert Wilcher | The darkened scribe and the blessed man: changing uses of allusion in the work of Henry Vaughan | 38 |
Gordon Kennedy | animal pilgrimage | 53 |
Brendan McMahon | Black | 54 |
Witness | 54 | |
Robin Ford | As Albatross | 55 |
Phil Maillard | Two for Mnemosyne | 56 |
Gabriel Griffin | Roller Kids | 59 |
Michael Thomas | A Mouth Full of Pegs | 61 |
Cast!etownroche, North Cork | 62 | |
Gary Allen | The Mountain | 64 |
On high | 64 | |
Anxiety | 65 | |
Graham Hartill | Bhopal | 67 |
Rose Flint | The Source | 68 |
Philip West | Silex Scintillans and the “public” | 70 |
Open Poetry Competition | ||
Adjudications | 86 | |
Short Poems | ||
Lynne Rees | The Fright Box | 91 |
Joan Poulson | Relics | 92 |
Mary MacRae | The Various Light | 94 |
Short Poems – Commended | ||
Christine Coleman Skin | Skin | 95 |
Fiona Owen | Door | 96 |
Jane Routh | Sula Sgeir | 97 |
Frances Thompson | Mrs Jones | 98 |
Pat Borthwick | In Praise of Things | 107 |
Long Poems | ||
Myra Schneider | Core | 100 |
Pat Borthwick | All Things Being Equal | 104 |
Daphne Gloag | The Beginning | 109 |
Long Poems – Commended | ||
Gabriel Griffin | Transumanza | 117 |
Lucy Hamilton | Sonnets for my Mother | 120 |
David Hart | Feldman says, if anyone asks | 123 |
Victoria Pugh | Talking Cure | 128 |
Anne Ryland | The Girl with Silver Hands | 130 |
David Scott | Priest as Poet | 134 |
Prayer and the Hair Salon | 141 | |
Resurrection | 142 | |
Lotte Kramer | St. Mary’s Altar by Tilman Riemenschneider at Creglingen | 143 |
Under the Stairs | 144 | |
Stuart B. Campbell | Prologue | 145 |
Lisa Darr | Salome Holding the Head of Saint John the Baptist | 147 |
Lucy Calcott | The Red Tent | 148 |
Ruth Bidgood | Clasped Hands | 149 |
Lynne Wycherley | Darwin Waits for his Wife | 150 |
A Menhir for the Cathars | 151 | |
Neil Curry | A Word with Bede | 152 |
Barbara Coulton | The Poet and the Preacher: Henry Vaughan and Vavasor Powell in their place and time | 155 |
Patricia McCarthy | Walking Out | 175 |
I Will | 176 | |
Close Watch | 177 | |
Linda Black | I think of you | 179 |
Kate North | Sleep Disorder | 181 |
Caroline Price | Chair Lift | 185 |
Lac Negre | 186 | |
Fiona Owen | Gwen | 187 |
Donald R. Dickson | Henry Vaughan’s Medical Library | 189 |
Paul Groves | Reprieve | 210 |
Geoff Slater | Mud Woman | 211 |
Anne Ryland | An Overflow of Letters | 216 |
The Marathon Runner | 218 | |
Jill Dawson | The Place of Renewal/Sculpting the Light | 219 |
Michael Heery | To Mary Takahama | 220 |
Selwyn Pritchard | Penultimate | 221 |