ISSUE 3 (1999)
[184pp., ISBN 0-9530674-2-4. £7.50]

Contents: Articles
 Richard Birt, ‘“Sweet Infancy!”: The Affinities between the Vaughans and Thomas Traherne’
 Belinda Humfrey, ‘Vaughan and Vegetables’
 Roland Mathias, ‘The Making of a Royalist’
 Glyn Pursglove, ‘“Number Makes a Schism”: Number and Unity in Vaughan’
 Michael Srigley, ‘Ritual Entries: Some Approaches to Henry Vaughan’s Silex Scintillans ’
 Peter W. Thomas, ‘The Language of Light: Henry Vaughan and the Puritans’

Contents: Poetry
 John Barnie, ‘That’s How I See It Anyway’; ‘On the Usk’; ‘Palaeozoic’
 Ruth Bidgood, ‘Christ of the Trades’
 Anne Cluysenaar, ‘“as a wind or an echo rebounds”’
 Janet Dubé, ‘Samhain to Imbolc’
 Jean Earle, ‘The Ritual Meals’
 Peter Gruffydd, ‘Getting By’; ‘Driftwood’s Song’
 David Hart, ‘Approaching Again’
 Graham Hartill and Fu-Sheng Wu, ‘To Cao Biao, The Prince of Baima’
 Seamus Heaney, ‘The Little Canticles of Asturias’; ‘The Glamoured’
 Bruce J. James, ‘The Lip Curved Out and Down’
 Nigel Jenkins, ‘Poem for Andie’
 John Jones, ‘Predator One’; ‘Predator Two’; ‘Predator Three’
 Marianne Jones, ‘The Morning of Our Eternal Good-bye’; ‘Pine Needles’; ‘Voiceless Grief’
 Hilary Llewellyn-Williams, ‘I-Ching Poems’
 Les Murray, ‘The Lich and the Blood’
 Fiona Owen, ‘That Last Week’
 Kim Taplan, ‘Found in a Rucksack Found on a Beach in Orkney’

Visual Art
Issue 3 features illustrations by Susan Milne (inc. cover art).

Contributors
 JOHN BARNIE’s latest books are Heroes (Gomer, 1996), a collection of poems, No Hiding Place (University of Wales Press, 1996), and The Wine Bird (Gomer, 1998).
 RUTH BIDGOOD’s most recent collection is The Fluent Moment (published by Seren, 1996). Another collection is in progress. She lives in Powys.
 RICHARD BIRT was ordained in the Anglican ministry in 1969, and has served in parishes since then. In 1990 he helped to found the Traherne Association, of which he is at present Chairman.
 ANNE CLUYSENAAR lives in Gwent and teaches at Cardiff University. Timeslips, New and Selected Poems, appeared from Carcanet (1997). She recently received an Arts Council bursary to write about the life of Alfred Russell Wallace and issues in natural history.
 JANET DUBÉ’s recent collections are This was a small death (Honno) and In Praise of Carnivores (Gomer) .
 JEAN EARLE is the author of five books of poetry. The latest is The Sun in the West (Seren). She was born in 1909 and lives in Shrewsbury.
 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.
 DAVID HART has worked as Anglican priest, theatre critic, arts administrator. Now a freelance writer, he is Poet-in-Residence at Worcester Cathedral. Setting the Poem to Words appeared from Three Seasons Press (1998).
 GRAHAM HARTILL: Poet and co-founder of the Poetry in Healing Project, set up to promote the use of writing in therapeutic contexts. He taught at Nankai University, 1985–6, where he met his collaborator Fu-Sheng Wu. Their Songs of My Heart, translations from the taoist poet Ruan Ji, appeared from Wellsweep in 1998.
 SEAMUS HEANEY’s Opened Ground, a selection from three decades of his poetry, was published in 1998. Later this year, his new verse translation of Beowulf will appear from Faber.
 BELINDA HUMFREY, formerly Head of Department at Lampeter, was founder/editor of The New Welsh Review and has edited The Powys Review since 1977. She has published book on the Powys brothers, and John Dyer; and is co-editing Unity in Diversity: The Art of David Jones, forthcoming 1999.
 BRUCE J. JAMES is published by Feather Press and Stride Publications. Gus work appears in Stride, Orbis, Staple, Seam, Ore, Ambit, and other magazines. He was born in Pembroke Dock in 1939.
 NIGEL JENKINS’s poetry can be heard on a recently released audio cassette, Remember Tomorrow (Gomer). His latest collection of his work, Ambush, appeared in 1998 (Gomer).
  JOHN JONES lives and works as a stockman in the Black Mountains of Wales.
MARIANNE JONES was co-translator, An Introduction to Contemporary Japanese Literature (Japan Cultural Society, Tokyo), project manager, ‘Japanese for Schools’ (Welsh Office), head of Derbyshire’s Japanese Resources Centre. She teaches Japanese in Anglesea.
 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.
 SUSAN MILNE has exhibited widely in England, Ireland, and Wales. She began with textile design and book illustration (an ongoing activity), and has taught/lectured throughout her career – including five years at Greenwich University and since 1991 visiting lecturer on Landscape Design in the Netherlands. Landscape is now at the heart of her painting.
 LES MURRAY lives in rural New South Wales and is the latest winner of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, awarded to him for his verse narrative Fredy Neptune (Carcanet, 1998).
 FIONA OWEN, Associate Lecturer with the Open University, teacher of creative writing for the WEA, is Director of the Ucheldre Literary Society. She has a poem-sequence in Needs Be, ed. David Hart (Firestack, 1999).
 GLYN PURSGLOVE, Senior Lecturer, University of Swansea and editor of The Swansea Review, has written many books and articles on English poetry from the 17th century to the present day.
 MICHAEL SRIGLEY has taught for some years at Uppsala University. He has published books on Shakespeare and Pope, and articles on 17th-century. literature, Occult and kabbalistic elements in poetry are a particular interest.
 KIM TAPLIN’s last publication is For People With Bodies (Flarestack 1997), available from Redditch Library, and first book, The English Path, is due to reappear, with a new chapter on the last twenty years, from McCarthy and Bassett in 2000.
 PETER THOMAS teaches English and Renaissance Literature at Cardiff University. He is particularly inter-ested in Court culture and the impact of the Civil War on poetry.
 FU-SHENG WU’s latest publication is The Poetics of Decadence: Chinese Poetry of the Sourthern Dynasty and Late Tang Periods (SUNY, 1998). He and Graham Hartill have collaborated for many years.

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