ISSUE 5 (2001)
[192pp., ISBN 0-9530674-4-0. £7.50]

Contents: Articles
 David Annwn, ‘“Deep Hymns”: “Holy Orpheus” in the Poetry of Henry Vaughan, John Milton and Ronald Jackson’
 Hilary Llewellyn-Williams, ‘Land of Darkness, the Poet in the Underworld’
 Parvin Loloi, ‘Henry Vaughan and Sufism’
 Roland Mathias, ‘Henry Vaughan and the Midlands, Introductions and Identifications’
 Glyn Pursglove, ‘“Bright Shadows”, the Religious Wit of Henry Vaughan’
 Alan Rudrum, ‘Henry Vaughan and Rowland Watkins’
 June Sturrock, ‘“Cock-Crowing”’

Contents: Poetry
 Hilary Llewellyn-Williams, ‘Making Landfall’
 Anna Adams, ‘Memorials’; ‘Millenial Funerals’
 Fred Johnston, ‘Shadowing’; ‘To an Old Lover Glimpsed in a Window’
 Diane McColley, ‘Viewing Stones’
 Kate Foley, ‘Hearth Prayer’
 Jeremy Hooker, ‘City Walking (2)’
 Ruth Bidgood, ‘Inward Eye’; ‘Pictures of Zeugma’
 Anne Cluysenaar, ‘Stilled’; ‘Choosing’; ‘That Undiscovered Place’
 Second Open Poetry Competition
       Myra Schneider, ‘Voice Box’ (1st Prize)
       Paul Cowlan ‘Fire to the Frost’ (2nd Prize)
       Roy Ashwell, ‘Towards an Unknown Ending’ (Joint 3rd Prize)
       Ron Phillips, ‘Woodsmoke’ (Joint 3rd Prize)
 Steven Taylor, ‘:A Short History of Wales’; ‘:Abbreviated History of Wales’
 Gary Asllen, ‘The North’; ‘Return to Galway’; ‘Walking to the Islands’
 Graham Hartill, ‘A Place to Stand’
 John Barnie, ‘Glockenspiel’; ‘Easter 3000’; ‘We Are An Experiment’; ‘Mission Statement’
 Neil Curry, ‘Icon’
 Angela Morton, ‘Fish’
 Susan Serrano, ‘The Brazier’
 Val Collett, ‘Reflection’
 Colin Rowbotham, ‘The Monolith’; ‘Charm against Insomnia’
 Jay Ramsay, ‘Getting Through’
 Geoff Stevens, ‘The Bell Tent’
 Bruce James, ‘Wood-Pigeons’
 Ian Caws, ‘Comet’; ‘Acorns’
 Phil Maillard, ‘Walk Tonight’; ‘Llantarnham (2)’; ‘Coming out of Films’
 Carole Montoya, ‘In Shingo Where Jesus Lived to Be 106 and Died’
 Mike Parker, ‘Clearly Something’
 Alex Barr, ‘Llanelli Beach’
 Catherfine Fisher, ‘From the Sunken Kingdom’
 Elisabeth Standen, ‘Key’
 Lance Lee, ‘The Deer’
 Grevel Lindop, ‘Lighting the First Fire of Autumn’
 Hubert Moore, ‘Nightingale’

Contents: Music
 Geoffrey Palmer, Setting of Henry Vaughan’s ‘Awake Glad Heart’

Visual Art
Issue 5 features photographs by Richard Lanham (inc. cover art).

Contributors
 ANNA ADAMS’s Green Resistance, selected and new poems, was published by Enitharmon in 1996; and Flying Underwater will be her fifth collection from Peterloo Poets. At present she is finalising an anthology of London poems.
 GARY ALLEN was born in Ballymena, Co. Antrim. He has published four collections – Irish Notes, The Farthest Circle, Mending Churches and Making Waves.
 DAVID ANNWN, recipient of Bunford Award and first prize in Cardiff Literary Com­petition, is an Anglo–Welsh poet and critic who works for the Open University and lives in Yorkshire. Recent publications include Blake’s Kayak and a study of Basil Bunting in The Star You Steer By, Rodopi Publications.
 ROY ASHWELL, lifelong poet, strongly influenced by Africa West and South, Wales, Thames Estuary, Greece, Oceans. Printings all in newspapers, magazines, beginning with Encounter, now in Scintilla. Website at www mashwell2000.co.uk
 ALEX BARR, since moving from Manchester to West Wales in 1996, has been writing poetry in earnest after a gap of many years. His collection Letting in the Carnival was published by Peterloo in 1984.
 RUTH BIDGOOD lives in mid-Wales. Her eighth book of poems, Singing to Wolves, was published by Seren in 2000.
 IAN CAWS has published nine collections of poetry, the last, Dialogues In Mask, from Pikestaff Press in 2000. A previous collection, The Ragman Totts, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
 ANNE CLUYSENAAR’s new and selected poems, Timeslips, appeared from Carcanet in 1997. Her next collection will centre on the life and work of the great Usk-born naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace.
 VAL COLLETT lives in Cardiff. Last published volume Hollow Flute, Stone Lantern Press 1982. She concentrates now on translating and singing Spanish language poetry, and also produces her own work.
 PAUL COWLAN is a professional acoustic rock songwriter/poet/performer, with six albums of self-penned material, and a seventh due out this summer. His poems have won prizes and appeared in: Tabla, Telegraph/Arvon Ring of Words, Stand, Poetry Life, Orbis, Envoi, Trewithen Chapbook, Still, Psychopoetica, Chalk Face Muse and others.
 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. His most recent book The Bending of the Bow is a reworking of the closing hooks of The Odyssey and was illustrated by the American artist Jim Dine.
 CATHERINE FISHER’s latest poetry collection is Altered States (Seren). Her most recent novels are the Book of the Crow Quartet, published by Red Fox.
 KATE FOLEY was born and lived in London until she began (late) her work in archaeology, Her two hooks, Soft Engineering and A Year Without Apricots, are soon to be followed by a third. She now lives in Amsterdam.
 JERRY HOOKER is a professor of English Literature at the University of Glamorgan. His most recent book of poems Our Lady of Europe appeared in 1997. His critical book Imagining Wales and his Welsh Journal are forthcoming this year, and Adamah, a new collection of poems, next year.
 BRUCE J. JAMES is 61 years of age. He has been published by Feather Press and Stride Publications. His work appears in Ambit, Seam, Orbis, Staple, Ore, Iota, Scintilla 3, and in many anthologies.
 FRED JOHNSTON was born in Belfast, N. Ireland in 1951, is the founder of Galway’s annual literature festival. He has published two novels, seven collections of poems and one collection of stories; a ‘new & selected’ poems will come out later this year. He is currently endeavouring to set up a writers’ centre in Galway and edit two literary pages for a Galway newspaper.
 RICHARD LANHAM is an artist and art therapist with an interest in Jungian Psychology and archetypal imagery: He is senior lecturer ill art therapy at the University of Hertfordshire and has a private practice in Bristol.
 LANCE LEE publishes in the UK and US, recently in Ambit, Orbis, Agenda, Acumen, Staple, Poem, Solo. A Poetics for Screenwriters is just out from the University of Texas.
 GREVEL LINDOP’s Selected Poems appeared from Carcanet in 2000. He recently succeeded Kathleen Raine as Director of the Temenos Academy, and is writing a biography of the poet, novelist and theologian, Charles Williams.
 PARVIN LOLOI has a scholarly interest in the relationships (of influence and of affinity) between Persian and English Literature, and has published widely in this area.
 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.
 DIANE McCOLLEY teaches at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey and is an Honored Scholar of the Milton Society. She wrote ‘Viewing Stones’ while studying early modern nature poetry at the Huntingdon Library.
 CAROLE MONTOYA was born in Panama City, Panama, and grew up in Midwest America. She currently resides in Wales. Her poems have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review and Type Magazine.
 HUBERT MOORE has four collections, the last three with Enithartnon. His fifth, now completed, contains poems already published in Poetry London, The Rialto, Poetry Wales and, now, Scintilla.
 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.
 GEOFFREY PALMER studied composition at Huddersfield and Bristol, where he gained a doctorate. His recent music has been awarded prizes by Classic CD Magazine, Music Haven Publishing and the English Poetry and Song Society. He and Anne Cluysenaar have collaborated on song-cycles and an opera.
 MIKE PARKER was born 1958. Married with four children, he lives in Southwick, W Sussex. Performs annually in The Brighton Festival. Has had poems and stories pub­lished in eight countries.
 RON PHILLIPS has lived in East Africa; now writes, performs in Derby; still a traveller. Volume of poetry, The Risk Business (Dragonheart Press); currently, a novel, Visions of Johanna (Regent Books). Winner, Voyage International Poetry Competition. Poems in numerous magazines.
 JAY RAMSAY is the 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 practising psychotherapeutic counsellor ex­ploring the poetry (and poetics) of healing.
 COLIN ROWBOTHAM was a very under-recognised poet. who died suddenly last year. He had two collections: Total Recall (Littlewood 1987) and Strange Estates (Rockingham 1994), and another book of his work is currently being prepared. He taught teenagers with emotional and behavioural difficulties.
 ALAN RUDRUM has published widely but not exclusively on seventeenth century topics, principally Henry and Thomas Vaughan and John Milton. Editor of Vaughan’s Complete Poems (Penguin Classics, 1976, etc.) and The Works of Thomas Vaughan (Clarendon Press, 1984). Most recent book The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth Century Verse and Prose, with associate editors Holly Nelson and Joseph Black.
 MYRA SCHNEIDER’s most recent collections of poetry are The Punic 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.
 SUSAN SERRANO, a writer, painter and translator, lectures in Spanish at Kingston University. She has published books on poetry; folklore, language and cuisine. Her poems have appeared in anthologies and journals in the UK and USA.
 ELISABETH STANDEN works as a Project officer and Equality trainer in and around Bristol. A poem was published in Rive Gauche, an anthology of women poets working in Bristol today (Rive Gauche Publishing, Bristol, 1997).
 GEOFF STEVENS has been editor of the Purple Patch poetry magazine since 1976, and had his own poetry published in Europe, N. America, India, Japan and Australasia. Latest collection Central to Me (Spouting Forth Ink).
 JUNE STURROCK is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, Canada, a poet and a grandmother. Most recently she has edited Mansfield Park in the Broadview Texts series, March 2001. Has published widely on writers as diverse as Blake and Charlotte Yonge; and is currently writing a book-length critical study of nineteenth-century domestic fiction.
 STEVEN TAYLOR was born and brought up in Hyde on the edge of Manchester, lives in Kilburn, North London, as the English aspect of a Celtic household. Widely pub­lished in magazines and journals over the last couple of years, including Borderlines, Interchange, Poetry Wales, Skald, The Yellow Crane and now Scintilla. He is currently compiling a first collection of poems.

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