ISSUE 4 (2000)
[176pp., ISBN 0-9530674-3-2. £7.50]

Contents: Articles
 Jeremy Hooker, ‘What Is Sacred Poetry?’’
 Alan Rudrum, ‘For then the Earth Shall Be all Paradise: Milton, Vaugha and the Neo-Calvinists on the Ecology of the Hereafter‘
 Brigid Allen, ‘The Vaughans at Jesus College, Oxford, 1638–48’
 Roland Mathias, ‘Reasons, Reasons’
 Robert Wilcher, ‘“Feathering some Slower Hours”: Henry Vaughan’s Verse Translations’
 David Hart, ‘Trust the Poem’

Contents: Poetry
 Kim Taplin, ‘Possible Openings‘
 Jeremy Hilton, ‘Lighting up Time’
 Peter Abbs, ‘Drive In’
 Peter Russell, ‘A Bullfinch?’
 D. S. Hall, ‘Instance’, ‘Reflector’; ‘Within the Locked Wave’
 Ruth Bidgood, ‘Circles’, ‘Ways of Life’; ‘Shards’; ‘Driving through 95% Eclipse’
 Peter Gruffydd,‘Looking Back’
 Gart Allen, ‘Ferae Naturae’; ‘Geological Notes’
 Jean Earle, ‘Shadows’
 Anna Wigley, ‘The Confinement’
 Ted Walter, ‘The Divide’
 Phil Mallard, ‘The Gatherers’
 Open Poetry Competition: Preface
       Pat Earnshaw, ‘My Cat Vince’ (1st Prize)
       M. C. Newton, ‘Third Window’ (2nd Prize)
       Mary MacRae, ‘Knitting’ (3rd Prize)
 Mercer Simpson, ‘Saint Colossus of Arona’
 John Freeman, ‘Parliament Square’; ‘Holy of Holies’
 Wayne Burrows, ‘Duet’
 Clare Crossman, ‘Silent Reading’
 Michael Woodward, ‘Ice Man’
 Ric Hool, ‘Opthalmic Appointment’
 Annemarie Austin, ‘Isolation Hospital’
 Jay Ramsay, ‘Improvisation on Flower Mountain’
 Paul Davidson, ‘Interferometry’
 Rose Flint, ‘The Blue Gate’
 Myra Schneider, ‘Repair’

Visual Art
Issue 4 features illustrations taken from paintings and sculptures by Lorna Graves.

Contributors
 PETER ABBS is Professor of Arts Education in the University of Sussex where he directs the MA Programme in Creative Writing. Recent publications include The Polemics of Imagination and the volume of poetry, Love After Sappho.
 BRIGID ALLEN is Archivist of Jesus College, Oxford. She also catalogues collections of private papers, and is writing a book on diarists and their responses to landscape.
 GARY ALLEN was born in Mallymen, Co. Antrim. Poems published in many magazines including Acumen, Brangle, The Devil, Force 10, Honest Ulsterman, Orbis, Stand, Thumbscrew, etc. and four small pamphlets.
 LIAM ASPIN was born in 1967 in Lancashire. His work has appeared in a variety of magazines, and he is currenlty workign on a novel for children. He is presently based in Bath, where he works as a development economist.
 ANNEMARIE AUSTIN’s fourth collection, Door Upon Door, was published by Bloodaxe in August 1999. Earlier work had been recommended by the Poetry Book Society and set to music in America.
 RUTH BIDGOOD’s most recent collection is Singing to Wolves (Seren, March 2000). The Fluent Moment appeared from Seren in 1996. She lives in Powys.
 CLARE CROSSMAN lives in Cumbria. Last year she was awarded a Hawthorden Fellowship. Her publications include Landscapes (Redbeck Press, 1996); Silent Reading, written for a set of ten lithographs by her, and funded by Northern Arts; and Endpage, published in Rites and Ceremonies: A Pratical Guide to Alternative Funerals, ed. Kate Gordon (Constable).
 PAUL DAVIDSON is thirty-seven, works as an archivist in Barnstaple and has been writing poetry seriously for some fifteen years. He won the Faber/Ottakers National Poetry Competition in 1997, when he was also runner-up in the Trewithin Poetry Competition).
 JEAN EARLE is the author of five books of poetry. The latest is The Sun in the West (Seren). Another is now in preparation. She was born in 1909 and lives in Shrewsbury.
 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 an artist, poet, art therapist, and creative writing tutor. She recently completed a six-month ‘Poetry Place’ as a ‘Poet for Health’ in a doctor’s surgery. Her collection Blue Horse of the Morning is available from Seren and her poetry appears in many anthologies and magazines including Poetry Wales and Tabla.
 JOHN FREEMAN’s most recent collections are The Light Is Of Love I Think: New and Selected Poems (Stride Editions, Exeter, 1997) and Landscape with Portraits (Redbeck Press, Bradford, 1999). A selection of essays on modern poetry is forthcoming from Stride.
LORNA GRAVES was born and currently lives in Cumbria. She studied for a science degree in London and worked as a librarian in Oxford before studying fine art in Cambridge and her native Cumbria. She has won numerous awards and exhibited her paintings and sculptures widely in Britain and abroad (Japan, the USA, Germany), and her work is to be found in publica and private collections throughout the world. She is shortly moving to London.
PETER GRUFFYDD is a professional actor, writer, translator, reviewer, tutor, reader, poetry-performer, lecturer.
D. S. HALL was born in Bristol in 1967, grew up in the West Country, was educated at Oxford and has had worked published in AABye, Helicon, Other Poetry, Poetry Monthly, and also Tears in the Fence (forthcoming).
DAVID HART has worked as Anglican priest, theatre critic, arts administrator. Now a freelance writer, he was Poet in Residence in Worcester Cathedral in 1998/99. Setting the Poem to Words (Three Seasons Press) appeared in 1998.
JEREMY HILTON is a widely published poet in magazines in Britain and abroad. His new collection Earthbound is about to appear from Phlebas Press. This will be his first book since his long poem Shadow Engineering was published (Galloping Dog Press) in 1991. He is editor of the acclaimed poetry magazine Fire.
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). A new volume of poetry, Adamah, and his Welsh Journal (Seren) are due out in 2001.
RIC HOOL’s latest publication, The Bridge, begins with the simplicity of a morning, which quickly becomes multi-layered, ends in a poem enthralled in the complexity of simultaneity as experiences press upon one another and become conscious history. Variant frms of the bridge are connections throughout this collection.
MARY MACRAE was born in 1942 and was brought up in London where she still lives. After reading English at university, she taught in secondary schools until recently, when she gave up paid employment in order to concentrate on writing. She is a regular contributor to Magma Poetry Magazine and was a finalist in the 1998 Exeter Poetry Competition.
PHILL MAILLARD, 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’ most recent collection of poetry is A Field at Vallorcines (Gomer, 1996). He was Headmaster of King Edward’s Five Ways School, Brimingham, but now resides in Brecon.
M. C. NEWTON lives in Exeter, where she has been fortunate in attending poetry workshops run locally by Selima Hill. Over the years she has published numerous poems in magazines: Envoi, The Frogmore Papers, HU, Nottingham Poetry International,Outposts, Poetry Ireland, Psychopoetica, The Rialto, Staple, SW Review, and many competition anthologies.
JAY RAMSAY is tha author of over twenty-five books, most recently Kingdom of the Edge—New and Selected Poems 1980–1998 (Element) and Love’s Way—the alchemy of relationships (Kyrios, USA). He is also a practicising psychotherapeutic counsellor exploring the poetry (and poetics) of healing.
ALAN RUDRUM, Professor of English Literature at Simon Fraser University from 1969 to 1998, has publsihed widely on seventeenth-century topics, principally on Henry Vaughan and John Milton. He is the editor of Vaughan’s Complete Poems (Penguin Classics, 1976 etc.) and The Works of Thomas Vaughan (Clarendon Press, 1984).
PETER RUSSELL was born in Bristol in 1921. He has lived out of England since the 1960’s, mostly in Italy. Among his recent collections are La catena d’oro/The Golden Chain (1998) and Poesie dal Valdarno (1999), both bilingual. Issue 19 of The Swansea Review is largely devoted to his work.
MYRA SCHNEIDER’s most recent collection is The Panic Bird (Enitharmon, 1998). Insisting on Yellow, her new and selected poems, is due in the autumn from Enitharmon, and also Parents: An Anthology of Poems by Women Writers which she co-edited with Dilys Wood. Writing for Self-Discovery, written with John Killick (Element Books, 1998), was repreinted after six months. She is tutor at The Poetry School in London.
MERCER SIMPSON, recently retired from New Welsh Review’s Editorial Board, is currenlty completing his third poetry collection which will include poems recently published in Acumen and in The Interpreter’s House and others accepted for the Anthology of Magdelene Writers to be published in Cambridge later this year.
KIM TAPLIN’s first book, The English Path, has just been republished by Perry Green Press, with a new chapter on the last twenty years.
TED WALTER was born in Kent, where he currently lives with his artist wife, and has been a creative writing tutor for more than twenty years. He also works as a poet in schools; and his books include Choosing Yellow, The Visit and Blue Moon which appeared in 1999.
ANNA WIGLEY studied at the University of Wales, Cardiff, for a PhD on Iris Murdoch’s novels and has since made her living as a teacher and freelance writer. Her poems have appeared in many magazines.
ROBERT WILCHER, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham, teaches Renaissance Literature and Modern Drama and has published widely on the poetry of the mid-seventeenth century. His book The Writings of Royalism: 1628–1660, will be published later this year.
MICHAEL WOODWARD lives in Abergavenny with his wife and four children. He runs a small press and has recently organised an international conference on Augustine Baker. His first volume of poems, A Place to Stand, was published in 1995. A second, Thirst, is in preparation.

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