ISSUE 6 (2002)
[223pp., ISBN 0-9530674-5-9. £7.50]

Contents: Articles
 Glyn Pursglove, ‘Henry Vaughan and the Glance of Love: Thoughts on “Favour”‘
 Michael Srigley, ‘Thomas Vaughan, the Hartlib Circle and the Rosicrucians’
 Alex Cadogan, ‘Vaughan and the Mundus Imaginalis’
 Jonathan Nauman, ‘F.E.Hutchinson, Louise Guiney, and Henry Vaughan’
 Roland Mathias, ‘A New Language, a New Tradition’
 Kim Taplin, ‘“How shall I get a wreath…?”: Some Implications of Vaughan’s Question for Contemporary Poetry’

Contents: Poetry
 D.S. Hall, ‘Tumults of Forgetting’
 Jean Earle, ‘Shadows’
 Hubert Moore, ‘The Screech’
 Neil Curry, ‘Tidelines (Holy Island)’
 Sebastian Barker, ‘Holy the Heart’; ‘On Which We Hang Our Hope’
 Third Scintilla Open Poetry Competition, Short Poems:
       James Lawless, ‘The Miracle of the Rain’ (1st Prize)
       Pat Earnshaw; ‘Red Planet’ (2nd Prize)
       Jacquelione Karp, ‘Mallemarocking’ (3rd Prize)
      From Commended:
       Bruce Bamber, ‘Revolving Doors’
       David Butler, ‘Lines Written at the Onset of Winter’
       E.J.Matyjaszek, ‘Eel Brook Common – Spring’
       Angela Morton, ‘The Knot Garden’
       Jocelyn Simms, ‘Masquerade’
 Third Scintilla Open Poetry Competition, Long Poems:
       Colin Moss, ‘Seed of Time’ (1st Prize)
       Pat Earnshaw, ‘Toad’ (2nd Prize)
       Ruth Bidgood, ‘Riding the Flood’ (3rd Prize)
       Commended:
       Joseph Clancy, ‘Bone Hunter’
       John Freeman, ‘A Suite for Summer’
       Martin Schmandt, ‘Heart’s Desire’
       Margaret Wilmot, ‘In Memoriam, Paul Forster, 1902–1991’
       Dilys Wood, ‘August 2nd’
 John Welch, ‘St Aignon’; ‘I Is’; ‘Window’
 Rose Flint, Promethea’
 David Annwn, ‘Confluences’
 Peter Gruffydd, ‘Talking to Crowfoot’
 John Barnie, ‘At Llanwenarth’
 Alicia Stubbersfield, ‘My Grandmother’s House’
 Caroline Price, ‘Mother and Child’; ‘Roller Blader’
 Paul Murphy, ‘Necropolis’
 Paul Davidson, ‘Herne Bay’
 Stuart Flynn, ‘Necromancy’
 Phil Maillard, ‘Frog’
 Matthew Fluharty, ‘The Interview’
 Kate Foley, ‘Cracks in the Pavement’
 Gary Allen, ‘The Workhouse’; ‘Looking for Landmarks’; The Brick Factory’
 Anna Adams, ‘Memorials 2 – Sailing By’
 Liam Aspin, ‘Fetish’
 Kim Taplin, ‘Goodfellow’
 John Jones, ‘is this what you want!’; ‘sedimentary– my dear homes’
 Ian Caws, ‘Movement from a Fixed Point’
 Myra Schneider, ‘Climbing’
 Tony Connor, ‘Guida Farm in January’

Visual Art
Issue 6 features wood sculptures by David Nash (inc. cover art).

Contributors
 ANNA ADAMS has published several poetry collections (Peterloo Press mainly) but most closely related to ‘Sailing By’ is Island Chapters (Arc Press), written during the 70’s when she spent much time in the Outer Hebrides. Currently compiling an anthology of poetry and prose about London, for Enitharmon.
 GARY ALLEN was born in Ballymena, Co. Antrim. Poems published widely, including Ambit, Chapman, The Devil, London Magazine, Stand, etc. First full-length collection published by Flambard/Black Mountain, called Languages.
 DAVID ANNWN’s new study of Irish Postmodern poets: ‘Arcs Through’ is to appear this year. His most recent collections of poetry are turbulent/boundaries and Blake’s Kayak. He is an Anglo–Welsh poet resident in Yorkshire.
 LIAM ASPIN was born in 1967 in Lancashire. His work has appeared in a variety of magazines, and he is currently working on a novel for children.
 BRUCE BAMBER has written poetry for seven years and been published in a number of magazines and periodicals. He lives in Newbury and works part-time as a transport planning consultant.
 SEBASTIAN BARKER, Chairman of The Poetry Society 1988–1992. Guarding the Border: Selected Poems (Enitharmon 1992). The Dream of Intelligence (Littlewood Arc 1992). The Hand in the Well (Enitharmon 1996). Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature 1997.
 JOHN BARNIE is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, fiction and essays. His latest book is Ice (Gomer 2001), a futuristic poem set in the twenty-third century.
 RUTH BIDGOOD lives in mid-Wales. Her eighth book of poems, Singing to Wolves, was published by Seren in 2000.
 DAVID BUTLER, born in Dublin in 1964, this year won the Maria Edgeworth Short Story Prize and Ted McNulty Poetry Prize; also came third in the Swift Society Short Story Open and Feile Filiochta International Poetry Competition.
 ALEX CADOGAN is writing a PhD on the ‘Quintilius Translations’ of Peter Russell. He has interests in Christian and Islamic spiritual traditions in literature. Currently a serving Salvation Army Officer in South Wales.
 IAN CAWS has published nine collections, the last, Dialogues in Mask, from Pikestaff Press. A previous collection, The Ragman Totts, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
 JOSEPH CLANCY is an American poet and translator who now lives in Aberystwyth. His most recent books are Other Words: Essays in Poetry and Translation and a collection of poems, Ordinary Time.
 TONY CONNOR’s first five volumes of poetry were published by OUP. Since then, three more volumes have been published by Anvil Press Poetry. The latest is Meta morphic Adventures, 1996.
 NEIL CURRY lives in the Lake District. His collection Walking to Santiago features a sequence about his 500-mile walk along the Pilgrim Route to Santiago de Compostela. A new collection Fourteen Steps along the Edge is forthcoming.
 PAUL DAVIDSON is 39; originally from Essex but now living in North Devon. He won the Faber-Othakar Competition in 1997, and came 2nd in the Trewithen Poetry Competition. Has published in various magazines.
 JEAN EARLE, born in 1909, is English but has always lived in different parts of Wales. Began with magazine poetry, short stories and radio; and after a long gap she turned (at sixty) to poetry of another kind, building up a major reputation.
 PAT EARNSHAW, a biology graduate, has been a compulsive writer since childhood. She is the author of fifteen reference books on antique laces, and of three poetry collections: Pigeon Grounded, Cychosis and Out on a Limb.
 ROSE FLINT is a poet and artist. She teaches Creative Writing and works for the NHS as an Art Therapist. Her work can be found in many anthologies and magazines. Her first collection is Blue Horse of Morning (Seren).
 MICHAEL FLUHARTY’s poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Black Mountain Review and elsewhere, and have been broadcast on Radio 3. He is co-editing Breaking the Skin, an anthology of emerging Irsh poets.
 STUART FLYNN is an Australian-born City lawyer, whose poetry and translations have appeared in many UK magazines. His pamphlet of poetry Seneca the Spin Doctor was published by Acumen Publications in February 2001.
 KATE FOLEY was born and lived in London until she began (late) her work in archaeology. Her two books, Soft Engineering and A Year Without Apricots, are soon to be followed by a third. She now lives in Amsterdam.
 JOHN FREEMAN’s most recent collection of poetry is Landscape With Portraits, Redbeck Press, 1999. A collection of essays, The Less Received: Neglected Modern Poets, appeared from Stride in 2000.
 PETER GRUFFYDD. Writer-in-residence HMP Long Lartin 1997–98. Recent work published Bar None Books, Manchester. Writer, reviewer, poetry-performer, translator, actor, voice-over. Lives in Bristol, jazzing, allotmenting, walking, cycling.
 D. S. HALL, 1967–2001, was born in Bristol, grew up in the West Country, was educated at Oxford and had work published in AAbye, Helicon, Other Poetry, Poetry Monthly and ’fears in the Fence. He contributed three poems to Scintilla 4. It is with great sadness that we have learned of his tragically early death, and we are grateful to his parents for permission to publish this poem.
 JOHN JONES is a poet farmer from the Black Mountains of Wales. He has published 5 books (see www.blackmountainpoet.co.uk). His latest Carreg Las & Other Work (ISBN 1-8994-4980-9) is published by The Collective Press.
 JACQUELINE KARP has appeared in Other Poetry, Envoi and elsewhere. Forthcoming: Liverpool Lilith, Dalhousie Review (Canada). She has won/been shortlisted in several competitions. See also Poettext and Fictionette websites.
 JAMES LAWLESS, born in Dublin, teaches in Co. Kildare. He writes short stories and recently completed a novel, For Love of Anna. He wrote his MA thesis on modern poetry, translates Spanish and Gaelic verse, and has published poems in Cyphers, The Irish Independent, The Wexford Review and elsewhere.
 HILARY LLEWELLYN-WILLIAMS lives in Pontypool, SE Wales, and teaches Creative Writing at Cardiff University. Has three collections of poetry with Seren, and a fourth in press. The first two have recently been published in one volume as Hummadruz (Seren 2001).
 PHIL MAILLARD was born in London in 1948, has lived (mostly) in South Wales since 1975. He currently works in Cardiff as an NHS speech therapist. He has published five poetry collections and a paperback of stories.
 ROLAND MATHIAS’s most recent collection of poetry is A Field at Vallorcines (Gomer 1996). He was Headmaster of King Edward’s Five Ways School, Birmingham, but now resides in Brecon.
 EDMUND MATYJASZEK was born in London in 1950, and educated at Wadham College, Oxford. He has five times been a prize-winner, with over fifty poems published in journals, anthologies, and newspapers.
 HUBERT MOORE’s last three collections were from Enitharmon, the most recent being Left-Handers. His next, Touching Down in Utopia, is due in 2002 from Shoestring.
 ANGELA MORTON’s key interests include alchemy, Shamanism and altered states of consciousness. Her poem ‘As Bedlam Eased’ won the 1999 York Open Poetry Competition. Her first collection, The Holding Ground, is forthcoming from The Collective Press.
 COLIN MOSS has had poems published in various magazines. He is also working on a series of articles about poetry: the first two, with a manifesto, appeared in Acumen in 2001. He lives in Bristol.
 PAUL MURPHY, a teacher at Freiburg University, has published The New Life (Lapwing) and In The Luxembourg Gardens (Salzburg University), both poetry, and a book on Jacques Lacan and T S. Eliot.
 JONATHAN NAUMAN 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.
 CAROLINE PRICE is a violinist and teacher living in Kent. Poems have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, and two collections have been published: Thinking of the Bull Dancers (Littlewood) and Pictures against Skin (Rockingham Press).
 GLYN PURSGLOVE teaches at the Department of English in the University of Wales Swansea. He is editor of The Swansea Review and reviews editor of Acumen.
 MARTIN SCHMANDT, born near Chicago in 1960, has recently turned to writing poetry, having been a painter and performance artist. He lives in Sussex and teaches literature and speech at London College of Eurythmy
 MYRA SCHNEIDER’s most recent collections of poetry are The Panic Bird (Enitharmon 1998) and her new and selected poems, Insisting on Yellow (Enitharmon 2000). She co-edited Parents with Dilys Wood (Enitharmon/Second Light 2000). She is a tutor at The Poetry School in London.
 JOCELYN SIMMS is from Lancaster and runs The Writer’s Block from which she has edited an anthology The Usual Suspects. Her collection Topaz Island will be out soon (Through The Mill).
 MICHAEL SRIGLEY has taught for some years at Uppsala University. He has recently published Probe of Doubt: Scepticism and Illusion in Shakespeare’s Plays (Uppsala, 2000) and is interested in alchemy in literature and Green Men in churches.
 ALICIA STUBBERSHELD’s second poetry collection, Unsuitable Shoes, was published by The Collective Press in 1999. She lives in a beautiful valley near Monmouth and works as a tutor of creative writing.
 KIM TAPLIN is the author of The English Path (Perry Green Press) and Tongues in Trees (Green Books). Her most recent collection of poetry is From Parched Creek (Redbeck Press 2001).
 JOHN WELCH was born in 1942 and lives in London. His most recent collection of poetry, Greeting Want, appeared in 1997 (Infernal Methods Press, 64 Sturton Street, Cambridge CB12QA).
 MARGARET WILMOT is an American long resident in England. ‘Although I cannot paint, thinking in terms of painting is another device simultaneously to contain and connect our amorphous disparate everyday reality.’
 DILYS WOOD, founder of The Second Light Network, has co-edited two anthologies, Parents (Enitharmon), and Making Worlds (Headland Books) forthcoming 2002. Her own collection, Women Come to a Death (Katabesis), appeared in 1997.

 ART WORK: DAVID NASH is an internationally renowned sculptor (predominantly in wood) whose work is held in public and private collections worldwide. Throughout his career he has maintained a studio in Blaenau Ffestiniog in North Wales, working with the seasons and the elements.

I find myself drawn deeper into the joys and blows of nature.
Worn down and regenerated; broken off and reunited;
A dormant faith is revived in the new growth on old wood.
(David Nash, 1978)

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