ISSUE 2 (1998)
[176pp., ISBN 0-9530674-1-6. £6.95]

Contents: Articles
 A. M. Allchin, ‘“As if Existence Itself Were Heavenliness”: The Proximity of Paradise in Henry Vaughan and Thomas Merton’
 Stevie Davies, ‘The Testament of Catherine Vaughan’
 Lee Grandjean, ‘The Background to the “Four Winds” Drawings’
 Jeremy Hooker, ‘Quickness’; ‘A Note on the “Groundwork” Poems’
 Roland Mathias, ‘The Silurist Re-Examined’
 Jonathan Nauman, ‘“To My Worthy Friend, Master T. Lewes”: Vaughan, Herbert, and the Civil Wars’
 M. Wynn Thomas, ‘“In Occidentem & tenebras”: Putting Henry Vaughan on the Map of Wales’
 Robert Wilcher, ‘Henry Vaughan and the Church’

Contents: Poetry
 Dannie Abse, ‘Insciption on the Flyleaf of a Bible’
 Ruth Bidgood, ‘Encounters with Angels’
 David Annwn, ‘Vaughan’s Loom’
 Malcolm Bradley, ‘Seeing Voices’
 Joseph P. Clancy, ‘A Visit to Powis Castle’
 Clare Crossman, ‘Nature Writing’
 Menna Elflyn, ‘Eira/Snow’; ‘Gwynt/Wind’; ‘Twyll y glaw/Cloudburst’
 Rose Flint, ‘Weights and Measures’
 John Freeman, ‘Spring Diptych’
 Steve Griffiths, ‘Dipping Through Surfaces’
 Peter Gruffydd, ‘Church at Pistyll, Llyn’; ‘The Cleric and The Visitor’; ‘The Voice’
 Greg Hill, ‘A Thracian Triptych’
 Jeremy Hooker, ‘Workpoints’; ‘Cyane’
 John Jones, ‘Uscavar’s Boy’; ‘Death in the Distance’
 Hilary Llewellyn-Williams, ‘A Lap of Apples’
 Tôpher Mills, ‘The Believer’s Somnal’
 Rober Minhinnick, ‘In the Days of the Comet’
 Wendy Mulfurd, ‘1. Annaghmakkerrrig, Easter 1997’, ‘2. Different Lines’, ‘3. Border Blues’, ‘4. Reconciliation’; ‘Armagh & the Daffodils’
 Richard Pool, ‘Burning’
 Don Rodgers, ‘Bury Holm’; ‘The Fictionalists’
 Myra Schneider, ‘Pool’
 Pauline Stainer, ‘Parable Island’; ‘George Herbert Plays the Lute’

Visual Art
Issue 2 features illustrations by Lee Grandjean (inc. cover art).

Contributors
 DANNIE ABSE is the author of many books of poetry and of Intermitten Journals (Seren, 1994). He recently edited the anthology Twentieth-Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry (Seren, 1997).
 A. M. (DONALD) ALLCHIN is the author of many books, including Praise Above All, Discovering the Welsh Tradition (University of Wales Press, 1991).
 DONALD DAVID ANNWN lectures for the Open University. He has won the Cardiff International Poetry Competition. His poetry includes the spirt/that kiss and Danse Macabre (1997).
 RUTH BIDGOOD’s most recent collection is The Fluent Moment (published by Seren, 1996). Another collection is in progress. She lives in Powys.
 MALCOLM BRADLEY has twice won the Conwy Festival Poetry Prize, and was awarded a New Writer’s Bursary in 1996.
 JOSEPH P. CLANCY is an American poet and translator who now lives in Aberystwyth. His new collection, Ordinary Time, was published in 1999.
 CLARE CROSSMAN’s first collection of poems Landscapes was published by Redbeck Press. She lives in Cumbria.
 STEVIE DAVIES’s latest novel is The Web of Belonging (The Women’s Press, 1997). It was shortlisted for the Arts Council of Wales ‘Book of the Year’ Award in 1998. Seren published her critical biography of Henry Vaughan in 1997.
 MENNA EFLYN is the author of seven books of poetry and five stage plays (adapted for television). She is currently writing a libretto, with composer Alan Jay Kernis, commisioned for the New York millennium celebrations.
 ROSE FLINT’s Blue Horse of Morning is available from Seren. She is training as an art therapist and co-tutored ‘Writing and Spirituality’ with Alison Leonard at Ty Newydd in autumn 1998.
 JOHN FREEMAN’s recent collections include The Light is of Love, I Think: New and Selected Poems (Stride Publications, 1997) and Landscape with Portraits (Redbeck Press, 1998). He lectures in English at Cardiff University.
 LEE GRANDJEAN is a sculptor living and working in Norfolk. He is Senior Tutor in Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London. He and Jeremy Hooker collaborated on an earlier project, reflected in Their Silence a Language (Enitharmon Press, 1993).
 STEVE GRIFFITH’s Selected Poems were published by Seren in 1993.
 PETER GRUFFYDD is a professional actor, writer, translator, reviewer, tutor, reader, poetry-performer, lecturer, and is at present Writer-in-Residence at HMP Long Lartin.
 GREG HILL was editor of the Anglo-Welsh Review. He has published poetry and critical articles in a number of literary magazines. He lectures at Coleg Ceredigion.
 JEREMY HOOKER’s most recent book of poems is Our Lady of Europe (Enitharmon Press, 1997) and his latest critical work Writers in a Landscape (University of Wales Press, 1996). He is Professor in the Department of English and Creative Studies, Bath College of Higher Education.
 JOHN JONES lives and works as a stockman in the Black Mountains of Wales.
 HILARY LLEWELLYN-WILLIAMS teaches on the Creative Writing Programme at Cardiff University. Her most recent collection is Animaculture (Seren, 1997). She has been awarded an Arts Council bursary to work on the I-Ching poems.
 ROLAND MATHIAS’s most recent collection of poetry is A Field at Vollorcines (Gomer, 1996). He was Headmaster of King Edward’s Five Ways School, Birmingham, but now resides in Brecon.
 TÔPHER MILLS lives in Cardiff. His latest collection is Swimming in the Living Room (Red Sharks Press, 1995). In 1997 he was elected chair of the Welsh Union of Writers.
 ROBERT MINHINNICK’s Selected Poems appears from Carcanet Press in Autumn 1998. He is the new editor of Poetry Wales.
 WENDY MULFORD’s A Handful of Mornign, Poems 1993–7, appears in etruscan reader vii (Etruscan Books, 1997) and in the anthology out everywhere (Reality Street Editions, 1996). She teaches at the new University of Anglia and at Cambridge University.
 JONATHAN NAUMAN, a young American scholar, has researched extensively into the reception of Henry Vaughan through the last two hundred years, in particular the pioneering work of Louise Guiney and Gwenllian Morgan. He is UVVA representative in the USA.
 RICHARD POOLE was editor of Poetry Wales for many years. He has published several books of poetry.
 DON RODGERS lives in Swansea. His collection Moontan appeared from Seren in 1996.
 PAULINE STAINER lives on one of the Orkney Islands. Her last collection, The Wound-dresser’s Dream, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize.
 MYRA SCHENIDER’s works include Exits (1994) and The Panic Bird (1998), published by Seren. She co-authored Writing for Self-Discovery (Element, 1998) with John Killick. She teaches severely disabled adults and is a writing tutor.
 M. WYNN THOMAS is author/editor of more than a dozen books on American poetry and on the two literatures of Wales. He is professor of English at the University of Wales, Swansea, and Director of Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales.
 ROBERT WILCHER, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham, teaches Renaissance Literature and has published widely on the poetry of the mid-seventeenth century.

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