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Author	Title	#
	Preface	5
Peter Pike	‘Rending the veil of the usual’: grace conveyed through the ‘slightest things’ in the poetry of Henry Vaughan	9
Frances-Anne King	Balnakeil	32
Charles Wilkinson	‘brumeux’	33
Bruce Mcrae	The Hive’s Heart	34
Peter Limbrick	Poet	35
	It was a short meeting	36
Thor Bacon	Isölte & Tristan	37
John Welch	Gardening	38
	Someone	40
Edmund Matyjaszek	A Crocus Field	41
Carol Barbour	Althernal Walk	42
Linda Black	Rails of dresses	43
Patrick Bond	The Bone Room	44
Shanta Acharya	Snowy Egret	45
	In Silence	46
Noel Canin	Memories and Ashes	48
Clare Crossman	The Territory of Water	49
Tony Brown	‘Sharing in the building’: The Creative Relationship of R.S. Thomas and Elsi Eldridge	51
Claire Crowther	The Physics of Coincidence	86
	Confusional in a Gothic Church	87
Neil Curry	Sinai	88
Sam Davidson	Möbius	89
Holly Day	Escalation	90
Marek Urbanowicz	Lake Semerwater	91
Anna Flemming	Not a mountain	93
Robin Ford	What You Don’t See When You Look At Me	94
Brigid Sivill	Rishi Valley	96
Christopher Meredith	Sound of leaves not falling	97
	Upstairs	98
Roger Garfitt	The Assyrian Moth	100
Sam Garvan	Tumulus	102
Davide Trame	What the Thunders Say	103
	The Sacred	104
Tom Gouthwaite	A Wish Unmeasured	105
	Zac’s Oak	107
Holly Faith Nelson	Transatlantic Vaughan: The Afterlife of the Silurist in Early American Periodicals	108
Martin Hayden	A Journey to Make, Sometime	132
Martin Bennett	Alrewas Return	134
	Trent-Mersey Canal	135
Michael Henry	Pyromania	136
	Sunny Sands Tribute	137
Ric Hool	Enlightenment	138
	Halfway to Everything	139
Sarah Lindon	East	140
	Like Day and Night, Emerge and Hide	142
Sean Mcdowell	Photogram	144
	Three Lost Objects Found	148
Nicholas Mcgaughey	The Ring	149
William Virgil Davies	For Marie Curie on her 150th Birthday	150
	Widow	151
Claire Scott	Foundering	152
Paul Matthews	World Rose	153
	Winter Traces	154
Nicholas Murray	Parbold	155
	Europe	156
	A Short History of Ethics	158
Andrew Neilson	The Week’s Remains	159
Susan Skinner	December Night at the Stable	161
	On a Beach	162
Jeremy Hooker	Under the Quarry Woods: journal into prose poetry	163
Jill Townsend	Waiting for Results	183
	Recovering	184
Robert Nisbet	The Archaeologists	185
Ann Piling	After the Funeral	187
Mark Harschman	Mariners	188
Martin Potter	Walking the Old Beat	189
	Contemplate the Floor	190
Ranajit Sarkar	The Bran-Tub	191
Thomas R. Smith	The Library of Heaven	192
	Palm Sunday	193
Alex Barr	Iain	194
Kenneth Steven	Finally	196
	At Pluscarden Abbey	197
Beatrice Teissier	Jacques at the Solstice	198
	Cremation Day	199
	Signal	200
Hubert Moore	Back-licking	201
Denni Turp	System Incompatibility	202
Christine Valters Painter	Beloved	203
Donald R. Dickson	Henry Vaughan, Scholarly Editor	204
Mike Jenkins	Back With the Smoke	246
Dominic Weston	Ghost of a flea	247
	It’s just You and Me Now	249
Isabel Bermudez	Winter Vines	251
Margaret Wilmot	Chandeliers	252
	Seasonal Variation on a Railway Platform	254
Chris Dodd	The Field	255
Sam Adams	from ‘Notes of an Interview with Michel Eyquem, Seigneur De Montaine’	256
Jonathan Wooding	from ‘Force’	257
K.E. Duffin	Visitation at Newport	258
Rosie Jackson	Resurrection	259
	After the Door has Opened	260
Frank Dullaghan	Skull	262
Kevin Cahill	Lao Tzu has a Go	263
Patrick Deeley	Dream of a Fallen Beast	264
	Rigour	266
Miles Parker	Luggala* 1982	268
B.J. Buckley	Music for the Third Ear	269
Linda Saunders	My Mother Being Very Deaf	271
Philip West	Review: The Works of Henry Vaughan	273
	Contributors to this Issue	281

 

 

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Author	Title	#
	Preface	9
Jonathan F.S. Post	Walking with Vaughan in Silex Scintillans	11
Frances-Anne King	Nautilus	30
Howard Wright	Clocks	32
Marc Harshman	Glebe Wall, Oxfordshire	33
Paul Connolly	Struldbrugs	37
	London Baptism	39
Lawrence Sail	Sea Pictures	40
Margaret Wilmot	Here on earth	42
Thomas R. Smith	Dartmoor Morning	44
John Barnie	Nature Study	46
	Sunglasses	47
Jonathan Nauman	‘The Philosopher’s Vision: Experiencing the Consolatio Philosophiae in Silex Scintillans and Thalia Rediviva’	48
Neil Curry	Of The Puritan Dead	64
Mike Jenkins	Another Country	67
	Shapes in Bronze	68
Paul Murphy	Berlin	69
	Somma Vesuviana	71
S.A. Leavesley	A Countryside Town	72
	The Lamp Post	74
Grevel Lindhop	In Arcadia	75
	Snails	76
	The Allgreave Menhir	77
Emma Lee	Stitching America	78
Bruce McRae	The Day That Was Night	79
Elizabeth Siberry	Henry Vaughan Remembered: some further reflections from nineteenth-century Wales	80
Pete Limbrick	Wavicle	96
Rose Flint	September Tenancies at Witham	97
	Lake Lillies	99
Eve Jackson	Swan Feathers	100
Seán Street	The Stone Bird	101
Caroline Natzler	Pre-history	102
Helen Moore	Seed Yoga Sutra	103
Michael Henry	Petrichor	105
Lesley Saunders	Showing, Not Telling	107
Chris Preddle	Perspective	108
	Roland and Aude	109
Sarah Lindon	Icework	110
	There is Nothing Automatic	111
Sean H. McDowell	The Sonnet Made New in George Herbert’s ‘The Temple’	112
Ric Hool	Things You Learn in Scouts	131
Prue Chamberlayne	A Different Anchoring of Love	132
B.J. Buckley	Along Goose Creek	133
	Equinox	135
William Virgil Davis	Hopper’s “Automat”	136
	Poem Beginning with a Sentence from Stevens	137
Pamela Coren	Pressure	138
Alison Brackenbury	The Third	139
	After The Rain	140
Graham Hartill	Crusader	141
Charles Wilkinson	Pocket of Loss	142
Josephine Scott	The End of the Season	143
Vicki Kay	Brilliana Harley: Civil War Woman	144
Chris Hall	no ifs	155
Tom Gouthwaite	Cedar	159
Thor Bacon	Robert Capa’s Leica	160
Oliver Comins	Sunflowers at Night	161
Oliver Mort	Boat in Belfast	162
Kay Syrad	Chagall Window	163
Miriam Craig	Sunset	164
Hubert Moore	At the feeding-station	165
Rosie Jackson	An Anchorite Laments the Destruction of Her Cell, 1537	166
Mai Matsumoto	Magnetic Power in Henry Vaughan’s Poetry	167
Christopher Norris	Missing Hues	188
Roselle Angwin	Before the World Turned Again	190
	Rooks	191
Jonathan Wooding	Podcast	192
Linda Saunders	Quahog	193
Patricia McCarthy	Discovery	194
Andrew Neilson	Review of A Thickness of Particulars: The Poetry of Anthony Hech  by Jonathan F.S. Post (Oxford University Press)	195
	Contributors	197

 

 

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Author	Title	#
	Preface	9
Rowen Williams	Reflections on The Vaughan Brothers: Poetry meets Metaphysics	11
John Freeman	Being There	22
Ricky Ray	Haunting for Good	24
Cristopher Meredith	Fumitory	25
	Village Birds	26
	Ghost	29
Eithne Lannon	Pulse	30
	Thin Pulse	31
Carol DeVaughn	Evening	32
	Sunrise	33
	Midnight	34
Robert Wilcher	Henry Vaughan’s Art Poetica	35
Rosie Jackson	Interrupted	53
	Rabia and the Thief	54
Charles Wilkinson	Forme	55
Alan Payne	Moving the Lawn	56
	Hurricanoes	57
John Haynes	A Watching Still Awhile	58
	And then your Secondary School Ring Binder	59
Susan Wallace	Timber	60
Sean H. McDowell	Henry Vaughan’s Welsh Bird	61
Paul Matthews	For Now	83
	Here Now	84
	This Moment	85
	Hearts are Trumps	86
	From Left to Right	87
James Peake	The Hum	88
	The Luxury Apartment	88
	The Would-be Venue	89
	The Club	90
	The Tunnel	91
	The Open Window	92
Patrick Deeley	The Ash Pit	93
	Anthony of the Dessert	95
	T. Rex Skull, Ulster Museum	96
Michael Durrant	‘Who hears or reads of That, shall publish Thee‘: Print, Transmission, and the King’s Book	97
Pete Mullineaux	Small Hungers	121
Rose Flint	from Lunar Station: Icy Salty Cocktail in a Thin Stemmed Glass	122
K.V. Skene	SAD – Seasonal Affective Disorder	124
K.F. Duffin	Mrs. Reed	125
	Late Cicada	126
Chris Preddle	The Grey Heron	127
	Jacqueline on the Hill	128
W.D. Jackson	As You Like It – Rosalind	129
	The Tempest – Miranda	130
Jonathan Nauman	From Letter to Spirit: Henry Vaughan’s Herbertian Poetic	131
Maria Apichella	An Epilectic Entering Chartres Cathedral	142
	Star-lit	143
Nicholas Murray	Diptych	144
	The Empty Book	145
Roger Garfitt	After the Great Storm	146
Alyson Hallett	The Last Time	148
Matthew Barton	Walking the Frome	149
Philip Gross	Spiegel im Spiegel	151
Jeremy Hooker	David Jones, Metaphysical Poet	158
Laura Potts	Jarrow Doll	173
Jonathan Wooding	maker	174
	Daleth/Adhaesit pavimento	175
	Waw/Et veniat super me	176
	Teth/Bonitatem fecisti	177
	Yodh/Manus tuae feverunt me	178
Beatrice Tessier	New Life	179
	Copper loch	180
Paul Connolly	Dead Dog	181
John Barnie	House Party	183
Miriam Craig	Jackdaws, the Lake District	184
	Reviews
Sarah Hutton	Review of Thomas Traherne and Seventeenth-Century Thought	185
Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise	Review of Henry Vaughan and the Usk Valley	187
Sean H. McDowell	Review of Returning to Donne	189
	Contributors	192

 

 

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Author	Title	#
	Preface	7
Jonathan Nauman	Varying Arrangements: Observations on Some Copies of Henry Vaughan’s Silex Scintillans (1655)	9
Elizabeth Rapp	Elijah	19
Fiona Owen	Ting	20
Charles Wilkinson	Tracking Westwards	21
	Stones in the Bowman’s Dreams	23
	Hunter	24
	Reaping	24
Jock Stein	On a Retreat at Beech Hill	25
John Freeman	Country Dancing	26
Hilary Davies	Sebastian Barker: The Spiritual Journey of a Poet in the Modern World	27
Helen Moore	First Contact	49
	Mother Tongue	51
Alex Barr	Light and Dark	52
	German Girl in Old Castile	53
Thomas R. Smith	At Trinity College	54
Jonathan Wooding	Silent School	55
	Søren Kierkegaard’s Garden	57
Lesley Saunders	Sappho on Inishbofin	59
Elizabeth S. Dodd	The Spirit of the Religious Lyric: Towards Further Conversations between Literature and Theology	66
Margaret Wilmot	Like wax melting	79
	Romney Marsh	80
	Ferry Quay	81
Rose Flint	Storm in May, Crete	82
Stevie Krayer	This thing	83
	Garden of Remembrance	84
Nicholas Murray	A Green Thought	85
	Sweetness	86
	Showings	87
	White Gloves	88
Victoria Field	Cevennes	89
	Ritual	90
Jeremy Hooker	Revisiting ‘God’s Houses’	91
Helen Overell	Empty your heart and pour out all created things	104
Jill Townsend	Crossing Over	105
John Welch	In Folly’s Shade	106
Kay Cotton	A postcard from Honfleur	110
Miles Parker	North-East	111
Tony Brown	Prey and Other Poems: Some Late Unpublished Manuscripts by R.S. Thomas	112
Graham Hartill	Further to the World	132
	Turns	134
Alan Vaughan Williams	Change	137
Mandy Pannett	An Accidental Shattering	139
Maria Apichella	Praise	140
Patrick Bond	January Mordant	141
W. Richard Bowen	Interim Reports of the Inaccessible: The Quest for Meaning in the Poetry of John Ormond	142
Philip Gross	Auditorium	161
	Danseuse Cambodgienne	164
	Ear Candle	165
Thor Bacon	Ode to the Conductor	167
Chris Preddle	Mag Brook 1	168
	Mag Brook 2	170
David Hart	It is not customary	171
Greg Miller	The Burning Bush Triptych (1476)	172
	Contributors	174

 

 

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Author	Title	#
	Preface	9
Robert Wilcher	‘Henry Vaughan’s Public and Private Elegies’	12
Maria Apichella	David Calls	28
	Deuteronomy Reads	29
	Bless me,	30
Matthew Barton	Burial Chamber	31
	Backwoods	32
	Balancing Act	33
Joseph Ashmore	Reimagining Scriptural Places in the Writing of Henry Vaughan	34
Ruth Bidgood	Extremes	52
	Making May	53
	Triptych	54
Prue Chamberlayne	How Beauty Travels	57
Jonathan Nauman	Duplex Emulation: George Herbert’s “Christmas” & Henry Vaughan’s “Christ’s Nativity	58
William Virgil Davis	His Life	67
	A Sonnet for Paul Muldoon	68
	Departures	69
	Woman with Her Hair Tousled by the Wind in Front of an Eclipse	70
John Freeman	A First Visit to Steep	71
Joseph Sterrett	‘John Davies of Hereford, the King of Denmark & Shakespeare’s Meeting of Kings: Praise Beyond Praise’	73
Marc Harshman	Recoveries	83
	Stone	84
Graham Harthill	for Anne	85
	Migrating Bones	86
Rosie Jackson	Mary Shelley, Hyde Park, 1850	90
	John Donne Arriving in Heaven	91
Jeremy Hooker	‘“Vaughan Variations”: Anne Cluysenaar in conversation with Henry Vaughan’	92
Oliver Marlow	Would you grasp a nettle?	110
	School Chapel	111
	Inside a church	112
Caroline Natzler	I Saw	114
	Into Life	115
	As If	116
Doiran Williams	Spring Cleaning	117
Howard Wright	Garden Furniture	118
	Hearth and Home	120
Jeremy Young	Narcissus	121
Alan Rudrum	Peter Thomas: A Remembrance	122
	Contributors	126

 

 

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Author	Title	#
	Preface	11
Jonathan Nauman	‘Classicism and Conversion: The Role of the Poems and Letters of St. Paulinus of Nola in Henry Vaughan’s Silex Scintillans’	13
Lesley Saunders	Cell	28
	Speculum	29
	Pipette	30
	The Crystal Wombs of Katharinenthal	31
	In Vitro	32
Richard Berengarten	The Doubling	33
	Home	34
	Once, twice	35
	A Resonance	36
	Text and Intertext	37
	Dot	38
Sam Adams	21 September, 7.15 am	39
	25/26 September	40
	30 May	41
Clare Crossman	1. Stefani	42
	June at Dowera’s Manor	43
Alex Barr	Ash	44
John Killick	Remembering James Leggat (1896 – 1993)	46
Patrick Bond	Shaving by Candlelight	47
Anne Cluysenaar	That donkey, she was my freedom	48
	I hope it still happens, as then	49
	Why click on Fontaine de Vaucluse?	50
Noam Reisner	‘Martyred Signs: Robert Southwell’s religious use of metaphor’	51
Alison Brakenbury	The North	68
	Keats in Hampstead	69
	Beneath Battersea Bridge	70
	All March	71
Michael Curtis	Other	72
Kate Foley	Fruit Harmony in the Dark	73
	Paris Church	74
	Only To Be There	75
Chris Dodd	Change of Light	76
	The Northern Lights	77
	The Measuring	78
	Among Beech Trees	79
K. E. Duffin	House at Scituate	80
	Rubythroat	81
Rhian Edwards	The Gulls are Mugging	82
	Murmuration	83
	Return of the Native	84
Rose Flint	Ashes and Dust	85
	Welsh Church on the Hill	87
	Snake in Quietness	88
Kay Cotton	Walnut Tree	89
John Freeman	My Father Swimming	90
	Space Travellers	91
Anna Lewis	At the George and Pilgrim	92
Dorian Williams	Triptych	93
Philip Gross	Frequencies	96
Jeremy Hooker	‘Leading into strangeness: Rowan Williams, Poet and theologian’	98
David Hart	The Border Sketchy	117
Richard Hawtree	Stray Versicles	119
W. D. Jackson	viii, Love’s Labour’s Lost—Berowne	120
	x, A Midsummer Night’s Dream—Hippolyta	121
	xvi, Much Ado About Nothing—Benedick	122
Sean H. McDowell	Wind at Dún Aonghasa	123
Maureen Jivani	Dear God	124
	August	125
Oliver Comins	Red Horse	126
Brenda Lealman	Exodus	127
	Looming	129
Patricia McCarthy	Bell Ringers	130
Edward Storey	Seeing Music	131
	Bringing Home a Nightingale’s Egg-shell	132
Seán Street	Mass in E-flat Major	133
Helen Moore	Honeydew at Solstice	137
Philip West	‘John Chatwin’s Translations of Henry Vaughan’	138
Howard Wright	Heatwave	147
	The Repair Kit	148
	The Old School	149
Chris Preddle	Somme	150
	Tianfei	151
	Sappho	152
	Tethys	153
Regina Walton	Looking at Memling	154
Robert Nisbet	Hotel Room, Bermuda	155
	As You Like It in the Bishop’s Palace	156
Chris Norris	From Symbolon: An Essay on Rhyme	157
Jock Stein	On the Runway	159
Alan Payne	North	160
	That They Are There!	161
Thomas R. Smith	Holy Saturday	162
Charles Wilkinson	Caves	163
	From ‘Of the Red & the White Books’	164
Margaret Wilmot	IS	166
Anne Cluysenaar	Absence, Presence: Recalling Peter Thomas	171
Fiona Owen	‘Into all this’: a tribute to Anne Cluysenaar	174
Susan Bassnett	In Memoriam: Anne Cluysenaar 1936-2014	179
	Contributors	185

 

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Author	Title	#
Roger Hubank	Without Contraries is no Progression: William Blake’s ‘Songs of Innocence and of Experience’	9
Rowan Williams	To the City	30
Tony Connor	No 1 in A Minor	32
Doiran Williams	St Teilo at St Fagans	33
Jeremy Hilton	the night watch	34
Marion Tr acy	Corn Crake	36
Jill To wnsend	Twist	37
William Oxley	Natural Living All Around Me	38
Kenneth Steven	Spiders	39
Neil Curry	Holy George Herbert	41
Amanda Lloyd	Stone Walled	52
Sheila Bryer	Bearing	54
Alison Brackenbury	Anish Kapoor	55
	The Scent of Bluebells	56
Ruth Bidgood	More of the Same	57
Gary AJlen	After a painting by an unknown Dutch artist	58
Linda Saunders	The Pool	59
Kim Ta plin	At L’Avaloue	60
Christine McNeill	I became a famous artist in old age	61
Julia J Smith	The “unchangeable Seasons of the Delightfull year”: Transcience and Eternity in Thomas Traherne’s View of the Natural World	63
Huw Jones	Lines for my Mother	78
John Killick	Looking For My Death	83
Susan Bassnett	Poems for Geoffrey	84
Martina Thomson	Sandstorm	86
Clare Crossman	What Winter did to the Rope	87
Elizabeth Ford	News from heaven’: Will Kemp in Titus Andronicus	89
Dilys Wood	Moving House	108
Rowenna Hulton	A Fallen Nest	110
Brenda Lealman	A169	111
	Boulby	113
R ichard W Halperin	Penelope	115
Sam Howell	Echoes Forever	116
Clare Holtham	Elegy for the Buddhas of Bamyan	117
	Exile in Breconshire: The Double Displacement of Henry Vaughan	119
Jeremy Hooker	Father, painting	129
	Friend with a sunburst	130
Helen Overell	Lacemakers, Chartres	131
Daphne Gloag	Turner at Petworth House	133
David Greenslade	Corvine Date – True Story	135
Myra Schneider	The Stone	137
Graham Hartill	Something	139
Allan Wilcox	Nicodemus and ‘The Night’	141
Glyn Hughes	At Bolton Abbey	156
	The Fowler	159
Ted Walter	Where leaves are massed	160
	Cavatina	161
Anne Cluysenaar	From a Diary	162
Heather Coffey	Near Chinnor	164
Sean Street	On Not Being T here	165
Jeremy Hooker	Marches of the Spirit	167

 

 

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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
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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

 

 

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Author	Title	#
Fiona Owen	Through the Gate: a Poetics of Engagement	9
Ru th Bidgood	Ice	23
	The Well	23
Zenobia Venner	Still	25
Prue Chamberlayne	Postonja	26
Linda Saunders	Woodcock	27
Anne Cluysenaar	Ba ru-Angas	29
Philip Gross	The Presence	32
Glyn Pu rsglove	Not with leaf only, but with some fruit also	34
Open Poetry Competition
Adjudication		56
Short Poems
Chris Preddle	Cattle Console Him	63
Pat Borthwick	In Praise of the Oologists’ Art	65
Susan Wallace	The Last Station Srop	67
Short Poems – Commended
Heather Coffey	Flood	68
Kare Foley	Green Woman	70
Sue MacIntyre	Tree House	71
Susan Anne Moore	Dead Stag on Burgh	72
Robert Sea tter	21 Ways of Starting a New Life	73
Long Poems
Myra Schneider	Drought	76
Margaret Wilmot	November Journal	81
Christine McNeill	Martha’s reverie	85
Long Poems – Commended
Heather Coffey	Near Kingsbridge	88
Daphne Gloag	The Paths of Light	90
Anne Ryland	On the Stairs	95
Dilys Wood	Lament Based on a Corona of Sonnets	101
Lynne Wycherley	Towards Eden	104
Alan Rudrum	Bringing Peace Back to Life: The Anglican Irenicism of Lancelot Andrewes, Henry Vaughan and Rowan Williams	111
Sebastian Barker	Red Kite Against a Dark Blue Sky: On the Aesthetic of Art in the Theology of Rowan Williams	121
Kim Taplin	Wake-up Call	131
Brenda Lealman	So Close	132
Roger Waterfield	Growth	133
Lotte Kramer	Rain	134
Ruth Valentine	The Government Scientist Deciphers the Clay Tablets	135
Paul Matthews	Watching the Puls	138
Peter Gilmour	Alone	139
Robert Wilcher	Henry Vaughan, Jeremy Taylor, Edward Sparke, and the Preservation of the Anglican Communion	141
John Powell Ward	Still	160
Meredith Andrea	The Rea Book	161
Jill Eulalie Dawson	The Fragrance of Dead Bracken	163
Paul Groves	Now	164
Jacqueline Sousa	One of Her Last Sundays	165
Pippa Little	R iddling	166
Judy Gahagan	Libellules	167
William Oxley	The Dance of Detail	169
John Killick	Essence of Essences: Poetry and Dementia	171
Norman Schwenk	Waiting	181
Ian Parks	The Vicinity	182
Davide Trame	The Stare	183
Gary Allen	Festival of Neptune	184
	Purgatory	185
Zeeba Ansari	Renaissance Painter	186
	Sheela-na-gig	187
Angela Morton	The High Wire	188
Donald Allchin	The Many-Sided Traherne	192
Jeremy Hooker	Four for Grandchildren	203
Neil Curry	To: Robert Sutton, Worcester Cathedral	205
Hilary Llewellyn-Williams	An Eye Test	209

 

 

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Author	Title	#
Jeremy Hooker	Metaphysical Presence	9
Bruce James	Fierce Weight	26
Christine Evans	First day	27
	Making Hay	28
	Cave-swinging	29
Pat Earnshaw	Cutting the Grass	30
Nicholas Jagger	Phoenix	31
	Cult	32
Jay Ramsay	A Dream for Easter	33
Janice Fixter	One Hundred and Eight Beads	34
Alison Brackenbury	The Shaker chair	35
Mimi Khalvati	The Middle Tone	36
	Soapstone Retreat	36
Jill Eulalie Dawson	In the Library	37
Bill Shepherd	Bronze on Blue	38
Alan Rudrum	Not destroyed but hidden: Paradise Lost, Edenic consciousness and British Radicalism	40
Damian Walford Davies	Ideal City	48
Myra Schneider	Journey	51
Lance Lee	Nocturne, London, First Frost	53
Mary MacRae	At the Party	54
Phil Maillard	Esther	56
Fergus Chadwick	Hospital Visitor	58
Martyn Crucefix	Caldey lighthouse	60
Anne Cluysennar, Graham Hartill and	Form and Spirituality: Connections and Contrasts in Poetic Practice	63
Open Poetry Competition
Adjudications		86
Short Poems
Sue Maclnryre	Deep Forest	91
Marion Tracy	Shooting Star	93
Heather Coffey	Pilgrim	94
Short Poems – Commended
Hubert Moore	The burnt tree	96
Victoria Pugh	Lord God	97
Angela Rigby	Feline Art	98
Andrew Rudd	On the A488	100
Dilys Wood	Honor Oak Garden of Remembrance	101
Long Poems
Ruth Bidgood	Time Being	104
DilysWood	Apsley Cherry-Garrard Addresses The Royal Geographical Society	108
Fiona Owen	August Caterpillar	113
Long Poems – Commended
John Freeman	Apollonian Spring	116
John Godfrey	Beautiful Contraptions	119
Rowenna Hulton	Discovered through Bronze	122
Jacqueline Karp	Found in Tr anslation	126
John Killick	Karelian Lyrics	130
Allan and Helen Wilcox	Matter and Spirit Conjoined: Sacred Places in the Poetry of George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, R S Thomas and Rowan Williams	133
Wendy Mulford	Alltud	153
Mike Jenkins	Climbing-Tree	162
	Our Garden	162
Daphne Rock	East Coast: Dunwich Heath with Sizewell in sight	163
Ian Caws	Horses	164
Frances Sackett	The Asphalt Road	166
Lynne Wycherley	The Apple-Tree, Woolthorpe	167
M Wynn Thomas	Fidelities where beams together run’: Vernon Watkins and Henry Vaughan	169
Kenneth Steven	The Strangest Gift	185
Ted Walter	Event Horizons	186
John Powell Ward	To The Outer	188
Mercer Simpson	The Uncompleted Voyage	189
Christine McNeill	A Cup of Milk	190

 

 

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Author	Title	#
	Preface	7
John Powell Ward	Traherne’s Cosmic Consciousness	9
B. J. Buckley	Parallel Universe	22
Glenda Beagan	Time’s Egg	24
	Brighid	25
Alison Brackenbury	In Orbit	27
	On the visit	28
Peter Gruffydd	Mixing Colours	29
Seamus Heaney	Moyulla	31
Jeremy Hooker	Reflections on ‘ground’	34
Graham Hartill	Bronze Fennel	42
Linda Black	Who is to say?	43
Jane Routh	The Path to the Helleborine	45
John Killick	The Big House	47
John Barnie	Between the Town and Llanwenarth	49
	The Deri in August	49
Anne Cluysenaar	Now	50
Clare Crossman	Sunflowers	52
Hubert Moore	Watering	53
Glyn Pursglove	Storms rurn to music	54
Mary Michaels	Fresco	77
Mimi Khalvati	On Lines from Fahmida Riaz and Foroogh Farrokhzad	78
	Ghazal (of ghazals)	79
	On a Line from Sappho	80
Kate Foley	To Dream of Animals	81
Myra Schneider	Repair: Writing, Poetry and Therapy	82
Kim Taplin	Not a Breath	97
	“We Are Made To Lov”	99
Penelope Shuttle	Shawl of Dew	100
	Fatherghost	101
Pat Earnshaw	Fugitive Art	102
Fiona Owen	Why I write	104
Lotte Kramer	The Ampersand	106
John Welch	When in Rome	107
Open Poetry Competition
Adjudications		118
Short Poems
Pat Borthwick	Past Twelve O’clock	125
Kate Foley	Throwing Up The Baby	127
Lauraine Palmeri	The Story of Hen-body and the Secret Self of Egg	128
Short Poems – Commended
Linda Black	See a Penny	130
Daphne Gloag	Adam Delving	132
Mary MacRae	The Clearing	133
M. C. Newton	A window in our new house ovedooks the sea	135
Dilys Wood	In Northamptonshire, I Arn	137
Long Poems
Stephen Parr	Visiting the Etruscan Tombs at Volterra	138
Sean Street	The Broadcast	144
Elizabeth Burns	Interiors (after Gwen John)	148
Long Poems – Commended
Heather Coffey	Votive	151
Rose Flint	The City of Cherished Words	154
Giles Goodland	Myths of the Origin of Language	157
Amanda Parkin	Skin	159
John Hines	Aire disguis’d’: Metaphors of Genre and Henry Vaughan’s Sacred Hymns	164
Ruth Bidgood	Renegade	183
Gary AJlen	Equinox	186
Jacqueline Karp	Caged in	188
Lynne Wycherley	The Westray Angel	190
Jane Routh	The River Pilot’s Wife	192
Mercer Simpson	The Island of Fishermen	193
Jonathan Nauman & Peter Thomas	Sir Charles Egerton of Newborough	196
Mary MacRae	Stone Lanterns	209
	As dew	210
Neil Curry	Beneath the Wave Off Kanagawa	211
Anne Ryland	Seal Song	213
Rose Flint	Creative Writing for J.	214
Ann Phillips	Life Mask	215
Jeremy Hilton	A Long Darkness	217
Tony Connor	Phillips Table Model V	219
Brian Walsham	See	221
Holly Faith Nelson	Make all things new! And without end! : The Eschatological Vision of Henry Vaughan	222

 

 

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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

 

 

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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

 

 

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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

 

 

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Author	Title	#
Glyn Pursglove	Henry Vaughan and the Glance of Love: Thoughts on ‘The Favour	7
D.S. Hall	Tu mults of Forgetting	21
Jean Earle	Shadows	22
Hubert Moore	The Screech	23
Neil Curry	Tidelines (Holy Island)	24
Sebastian Barker	Holy The Heart On Which We Hang Our Hope	29
Michael Srigley	Thomas Vaughan, the Hartlib Circle and the Rosicrucians	31
Third Scintilla Open Poetry Competition		55
Short Poems – Adjudication by Hilary Llewellyn-Williams		57
James Lawless	The Miracle of the Rain (1st Prize)	59
Pat Earnshaw	Red Planet (2nd Prize)	61
Jacqueline Karp	Mallemaroking (3rd Prize)	62
From Commended:
Bruce Bamber	Revolving Doors	64
David Butler	Lines written at the onset of Winter	65
E. J. Maryjaszek	Eel Brook Common -Spring	67
Angela Morton	The Knot Garden	69
Jocelyn Simms	Masquerade	71
Long Poems – Adjudication by Anne Cluysenaar		74
Colin Moss	Seed Of Time (1st Prize)	75
Par Earnshaw	Toad (2nd Prize)	83
Ruth Bidgood	Riding the Flood (3rd Prize)	86
Commended:
Joseph Clancy	Bone Hunter	90
John Freeman	A Suite For Summer	93
Martin Schmandt	Heart’s Desire	99
Margaret Wilmot	In Memoriam Paul Forster, 1902-1991	103
Dilys Wood	August 2nd	106
Alex Cadogan	Vaughan and the Mundus lmaginalis	110
Hilary Llewellyn-Williams	Actaeon	122
John Welch	St Aignan	124
	I Is	124
	Window	125
Rose Flint	Promethea	126
David Annwn	Confluences	128
Peter G ruffydd	Talking to Crowfoot	132
John Barnie	At Llanwenarth	134
Jonathan Nauman	F. E. Hutchinson, Louise Guiney, and Henry Vaughan	135
Alicia Stubbersfield	My Grandmother’s House	148
Caroline Price	Mother and Child	150
	Roller Blader	151
Paul Murphy	Necropolis	152
Paul Davidson	Herne Bay	153
Stuart Flynn	Necromancy	155
Phil Maillard	Frog	156
Roland Mathias	A New Language, A New Tradition	161
Matthew Fluharty	The Interview	183
Kate Foley	Cracks in the Pavement	184
Gary Allen	The Workhouse	187
	Looking for Landmarks	188
	The Brick Factory	189
Anna Adams	Memorials 2 – Sailing By	190
Liam Aspin	Fetish	192
Kim Taplin	How shall I get a wreath … ?: Some implications of Vaughan’s question for contemporary poetry	194
Kim Taplin	Goodfellow	205
John Jones	is this what you want!	210
	sedimentar y – my dear homes	212
Ian Caws	Movement from a Fixed Point	214
Myra Schneider	Climbing	215
To ny Connor	Guida Farm in January	217

 

 

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Author	Title	#
David Annwn	Deep Hymns: ‘Holy’ Orpheus in the Poetry of Henry Vaughan, John Milton and Ronald Johnson	7
Henry Vaughan/Geoffrey Palmer	Awake, Glad Heart!	23
Hilary Llewellyn-Williams	Making Landfall	27
Anna Adams	Memorials	28
	Millennial Funerals	29
Fred Johnston	Shadowing	31
	To An Old Lover Glimpsed In A Window	32
Kate Foley	Hearth Prayer	35
Par vin Loloi	Henry Vaughan and Sufism	37
Jeremy Hooker	City Walking (2)	51
Ruth Bidgood	Inward Eye	53
	Pictures of Zeugma	53
Anne Cluysenaar	Stilled	55
	Choosing	57
	That Undiscovered Place	59
Alan Rudrum	Henry Vaughan and Rowland Watkyns, neighbours but not friends	61
Second Open Poetry Competition		73
	Adjudication by Jeremy Hooker	74
Myra Schneider	Voice Box  (1st Prize)	75
Paul Cowlan	Fire to The Frost (2nd Prize)	84
Roy Ashwell	Towards and Unknown Ending (Joint	86
Ron Phillips	Woodsmoke                            3rd Prize)	89
Roland Mathias	The Midlands: Introductions and Identifications	93
Steven Taylor	A Short History of Wales	105
	Abbreviated History of Wales	106
Gary Allen	The North	107
	Return to Gal way	108
	Walking to the Islands	109
Graham Hartill	A Place To Stand	110
Glyn Pursglove	Bright Shadows: the religious wit of Henry Vaughan	117
John Barnie	Glockenspiel	139
	Easter 3000	140
	We Are An Experiment	141
	Mission Statement	142
Neil Curry	Icon	143
Angela Morton	Fish	144
Susan Serrano	The Brazier	145
Val Collett	Reflection	146
Colin Rowbotham	The Monolith	147
	Charm against Insomnia	148
Jay Ramsay	Getting Through	149
Geoff Stevens	The Bell Tent	150
Bruce James	Wood-Pigeons	151
June Sturrock	Cock-crowing	152
Ian Caws	Comet	159
	Acorns	160
Phil Maillard	Walk To night	161
	Llantarnham (2)	163
	Coming Out Of Films	165
Carole Montoya	In Shingo where Jesus lived to be 106 and Died	168
Hilary Llewellyn-Williams	Land of Darkness – the Poet in the the Underworld	171
Mike Parker	Clearly Something	179
Alex Barr	Llanelli Beach	180
Catherine Fisher	From The Sunken Kingdom	181
Elisabeth Standen	Key	184
Lance Lee	The Deer	185
Greve] Lindop	Lighting The First Fire of Au tumn	186
Hubert Moore	Nightingale	188

 

 

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Author	Title	#
Jeremy Hooker	What is Sacred Poetry?	7
Kim Taplin	Possible Openings	23
Jeremy Hilton	Lighting up time	25
Peter Abbs	Drive In	29
Peter Russell	A Bullfinch?	30
D.S. Hall	Instance	31
	Reflector	31
	Within the Locked Wave	32
Ruth Bidgood	Circles	33
	Ways of Life	34
	Shards	34
	Driving through 95% Eclipse	35
Liam Aspin	Wirds	36
Peter Gruffydd	Looking Back	38
Alan Rudrum	For then the Earth shall be all Paradise	39
Gary Allen	Ferae Naturae	53
	Geological Notes	54
Jean Earle	Shadows	57
Anna Wigley	The Confinement	58
Ted Walter	The Divide	59
Phil Maillard	The Gatherers	60
Brigid Allen	The Vaughans at Jesus College	68
Open Poetry Competition		79
	Preface	80
Pat Earnshaw	My Cat Vince (1st Prize)	83
M. C. Newton	M. C. Newton Third Window (2nd Prize)	96
Mary Macrae	Mary Macrae Knitting (Third Prize)	101
Roland Mathias	Reasons, reasons	109
Mercer Simpson	Mercer Simpson Saint Colossus of Arona	125
John Freeman	John Freeman Parliament Square	127
	Holy of Holies	129
Wayne Burrows	Duet	130
Clare Crossman	Clare Crossman Silent Reading	132
Michael Woodward	Michael Woodward Ice Man	137
Ric Hool	Ric Hool Opthalmic Appointment	140
Annemarie Austin	Annemarie Austin Isolation Hospital	141
Robert Wilcher	Feathering some slower hours: Henry Vaughan’s Verse Translations	142
Jay Ramsay	Improvisation On Flower Mountain	162
Paul Davidson	Paul Davidson Interferometry	173
Rose Flint	Rose Flint The Blue Gate	175
Myra Schneider	Myra Schneider Repair	180
David Hart	David Hart Trust the Poem	185

 

 

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Author	Title	#
Peter W. Thomas	The Language of Light: Henry Vaughan and the Puritans	9
Ruth Bidgood	Christ of the Trades	30
David Hart	Approaching again	31
Kim Taplin	Found in a Rucksack: Found on a Beach in Orkney	38
Michael Srigley	Ritual Entries: Some Approaches to Henry Vaughan’s ‘Silex Scintillans’	43
Seamus Heaney	The Little Canticles of Asturias	60
	The Glamoured	62
Hilary Llewellyn-Williams	I Ching Poems	64
Anne Cluysenaar	‘as a wind or an echo rebounds’	76
Richard Birt	‘Sweet infancy!’ The Affinities between the Vaughans and Thomas Traherne	80
Les Murray	The Lich and the Blood	91
Janet Dube	Samhain to lmbolc	93
Roland Mathias	The Making of a Royalist	107
Peter Gruffydd	Getting By	121
	Driftwood’s Song	122
Fiona Owen	That last week	129
Graham Hartill & Fu-Sheng Wu	To Cao Biao, The Prince of Baima	131
Jean Earle	The Ritual Meals	135
Belinda Humfrey	Vaughan and Vegetables	137
John Barnie	That’s How I See It Anyway	150
	On the Usk	151
	Palaeozoic	152
Marianne Jones	The Morning of our Eternal Good-bye	153
	Pine Needles	155
	Voiceless Grief	156
Nigel Jenkins	Poem for Andie	158
John Jones	Predator One. The Syrup Tin	159
	Predator Two. Verbalising Silence	160
	Predator Three.Terminal	161
Glyn Pursglove	‘Number Makes a Schism’: Number and Unity in Vaughan	163
Bruce James	The Lip Curved Out and Down	182

 

 

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Author	Title	#
M. Wynn Thomas	In Occidentem & tenebras’: putting Henry Vaughan on the map of Wales	7
Menna Elfyn	Eira/Snow	26, 27
	Gwynt/Wind	28, 29
	Twll y glaw/Cloudburst	30, 31
Clare Crossman	Nature Writing	32
Hilary Llewellyn-Williams	A Lap of Apples	34
A. M. Allchin	‘As if Existence Itself were Heavenliness’: The Proximity of Paradise in Henry Vaughan and Thomas Merton	36
Pauline Stainer	Parable Island	54
	George Herbert plays the lute	55
Greg Hill	A Thracian Triptych	56
John Jones	Uscavar’s Boy	58
	Death in the Distance	60
Topher Mills	The Believer’s Somnal	61
Roland Mathias	The Silurist Re-Examined	62
Ruth Bidgood	Encounters with Angels	78
Peter Gruffydd	Church at Pistyll, Llyn	84
	The Cleric and The Visitor	85
	The Voice	86
Dannie Abse	Inscription on the Flyleaf of a Bible	88
Robert Wilcher	Henry Vaughan and the Church	90
Joseph Clancy	A Visit to Powis Castle	105
Wendy Mulford	1. Annaghmakerring, Easter 1997	108
	2. Different lines	109
	3. Border blues	110
	4. Reconciliation	112
Stevie Davies	The Testament of Catherine Vaughan	113
David Annwn	Vaughan’s Loom	120
Malcolm Bradley	Seeing Voices	124
Don Rodgers	Burry Holm	126
	The Fictionalists	127
Jonathan Nauman	To my Worthy Friend, Master T. Lewes’: Vaughan, Herbert, and the Civil Wars	128
Rose Flint	Weights and Measures	132
Myra Schneider	Pool	134
Robert Minhinnick	In the Days of the Comet	135
Richard Poole	Burning	139
Jeremy Hooker	Quickness	141
Lee Grandjean	The Background to the ‘Four Winds’: Drawings	154
Jeremy Hooker	A Note on the ‘Groundwork’ poems	156
	Workpoints	158
	Cyane	166
Steve Griffiths	Dipping Through Surfaces	169
John Freeman	Spring Diptych	173

 

 

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Author	Title	#
Graham Hartill	‘Healing Wings’	9
Gwyneth Lewis	Melangell Variations	20
Peter W. Thomas	The Poisoned Grove	27
Robert Minhinnick	Roadkill Blues	45
John Killick	The Riderless Horse’	62
Fiona Sampson	Poems from ‘de Salmone’: i, ii, iv, v	66
Hilary Llewellyn-Williams	‘As Above, So Below’	69
Ric Hool	Untying the Knot of Gravity	77
	The Knot and the Lake	78
Ruth Bidgood	Cwm Pennant 1-4	79
R. S. Thomas	The Flesh Made Word	83
Nigel Jenkins	Observatory	88
	Atom I	89
	Atom II	90
	In/dependence	91
Norman Schwenk	Demon	91
Henry Vaughan	Distraction	92
Anne Cluysenaar	Rereading Henry Vaughan’s ‘Distraction’	93
John Barnie	Problem	109
	Trouble	110
	By Arrangement	111
Chris Torrance	December Meditation	113
David Crane	The Poetry of Alchemy and the Alchemy of Poetry	115
Joseph P. Clancy	Screens	123
	Down Under	124
Jeremy Hilton	The Room That Turned	125
Pennant Roberts	Associations and Confrontations	129
Sean Street	Above Newton Farm	132
John Powell Ward	Eros	133
Angela Morton	Thomas Beside the Vaporous Usk	134
Jean Earle	At the Mirror of Catherine Vaughan	135
Mercer Simpson	Henry Vaughan Visits His Grandfather at Tretower	137
Tony Curtis	Illustration & Poem XVII from ‘The Arches’	139
Catherine Fisher	The Thicket	140
Pauline Stainer	Karumi	141
	Epiphany in Umbria	142
Glyn Pursglove	Henry Vaughan and the Energies of Rhyme	143
Kim Taplin	Reprinted from the ‘Transactions of the World’s End & District Field Club’	158
	The August Thorn	160
Chandra Wickramasinghe	The Birch of a Cosmic World View	161
	Speech	169
	Monsoon	170
	The Chase	171
	Evening	172
Sue Moules	Ocean	173
	Domestic	174