 ISSUE
7 (2003)
[207pp. ISBN 09530674-6-7. £7.50]
Contents: Articles
 Rowan
Willams, ‘Has Secularism Failed? Notes on the Survival of
the Spirit’
John
Welch, ‘Being Creative’
Myra
Schneider, ‘“A Deep but Dazzling Darkness”: Writing
Poetry in Extremity’
John
Powell Ward, ‘Darkness and Light: Poetry Religion and the
Environment’
Holly
Faith Nelson, ‘Gender and Politics in the Writing of Henry
Vaughan’
Donald
R. Dickson, ‘The Identity of Rebecca Archer Vaughan’
Helen
Wilcox, ‘“Scribbling under so faire a Coppy”:
The Presence of Herbert in the Poetry of Vaughan’s Contemporaries’
Contents: Poetry
E.
J. Matyjaszek, ‘A View from Lublin’
Mario
Petrucci, ‘Pyre-Watchers’
Tony
Connor, ‘Drawing a War Plane’
Lucy
Calcott, ‘The Dark Mad Voice’
Dannie
Abse, ‘Ants’
Graham
Hartill, ‘Llancillin’
Lynne
Wycherley, ‘The Writing Room’; ‘The Miracle of
the Clay Birds’
Ali
Glenny, ‘Josefa Paints an Onion’
Zoe
Brigley, ‘Canopy’
Brian
Walsham, ‘Bird-fancier’
Phil
Poole, ‘Autumn’
Larry
Butler, ‘Bay Window’
Phil
Maillard, ‘Dysphasia’
Michael
Srigley, ‘Once’
Hilary
Llewellyn-Williams, ‘The Badge’
Myra
Schneider, ‘Moth’
Grevel
Lindop, ‘The Wineglass’
Lance
Lee, ‘Haunting’
Gary
Allen, ‘Walls’
Dilys
Wood, ‘John Heath-Stubbs Reading at the Troubadour’
Caroline
Price, ‘Hawkmoth Larva Surprised in August’
Anna
Adams, ‘Arrival of the Swifts’
Rose
Flint, ‘Above Saint Cybi’s Well’
Anne
Cluysenaar, ‘This Much’; ‘Elsewhere’; ‘Strange’;
‘Together’
Alyson
Hallett, ‘Dropped Like a Stitch’
Richard
Burns, ‘Wayside Shrine’; ‘On the Death of Kate
Landers’
Ian
Caws, ‘Rose’
Paul
Groves, ‘Phantom Faces in the Floor of a House at Belmez’
Melanie
Challenger, ‘Teeth’
Maggie
Butt, ‘Fathering’
Shanta
Acharya, ‘Midnight Stroll’
Open
Poetry Competition, Short Poems:
Pamela Vincent, ‘Losing’
(1st Prize)
Liz Cashdan, ‘Red’
(2nd Prize)
Juanita Bateman, ‘Missing’
(3rd Prize)
Commended:
Pat Earnshaw, ‘Darkness
Our Lightness’
Clive Eastwood, ‘To
Do With Moving On’
Fiona Owen, ‘Walk’
Lynne Rees, ‘Snap’
Anna Wigley, ‘After
Snow’
Open
Poetry Competition, Long Poems:
John Freeman, ‘Tabula
Rasa’ (1st Prize)
Mary MacRae, ‘A Sort
of Homecoming’ (2nd Prize)
Carol Hughes, ‘The Floe
Edge’ (3rd Prize)
Commended:
Roy Ashwell, ‘A Series’
Liz Cashdan, ‘One Way
or Another’
Lucy Hamilton, ‘Being
with Annette’
D.
S. Hall, ‘The Unrepeatable Assembly’
Visual Art
Issue 7 features photographs by David Lewis (inc. cover
art).
Contributors
DANNIE
ABSE’s New and Collected Poems will be published
by Hutchinson, Spring 2003. His last publication was a novel –
The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds and Dr Glas, and his autobiography,
Goodby 20th Century appeared in 2001.
SHANTA
ACHARYA’s two collections of poetry include Not
This, Not That (Rupa, 1994) and Numbering Our Day’s
Illusions (Rockingham Press, 1995). Her doctoral study, The
Influence of Indian Thought on Ralph Waldo Emerson, was published
by the Edwin Mellen Press, USA, in 2001.
ANNA
ADAMS’s latest collection was A Paper Ark (Peterloo,
1996) and her next book is an anthology of poetry and prose on the
theme of London, to be published by Enitharmon Press in April 2003.
GARY
ALLEN was born in Ballymena, Co. Antrim. Five collections
of poetry, the latest, Languages, from Flambard/Black Mountain.
A selection of his poetry appeared in the anthology, Breaking
the Skin – 21st-Century Irish poetry.
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.
JUANITA
BATEMAN studied English Literature at Cardiff University.
She is a poet and translator, and is now doing an MA in Medieval
Literature at York, funded by the AHRB.
ZOE
BRIGLEY, from Caerphilly, is studying for an MA, having graduated
this year with a First in Creative Writing. Published in various
magazines and anthologies, she has also taken creative writing workshops.
RICHARD
BURNS, Against Perfection (King of Hearts, Norwich,
1999), Croft Woods (Los Poetry Press, Cambridge, 1999), The
Manager (Elliott & Thompson, London, 2001), Book With
No Back Cover (forthcoming, David Paul Press, London, 2003).
LARRY
BUTLER grows vegetables, writes poems and teaches taichi.
Publication include Games Games for Playspace Trust; Nibbles,
a cookbook of ideas for writing ;Survivors Poetry Scotland);
Yuga Night (Writer’s Forum – with Gerry Loose
and Kate Mcgee); Arts on Prescription (Glasgow Health Board).
MAGGIE
BUTT is an ex-journalist and TV producer, now, running the
Creative Media Writing degree at Middlesex University. She has poems
in a range of magazines and at www.lifesoup.net.
LUCY
CALCOTT lives in Eastbourne, Sussex. She has had poems published
in Resurgence and contributed to a recent anthology, Earth
Songs. She has three young children and works part time in the
local hospice.
LIZ
CASHDAN teaches creative writing at Sheffield University
Institute of Lifelong Learning. She also runs school workshops.
She edits the National Association of Writers in Education journal
and is poetry editor for Jewish Renaissance. Her most recent
collection is Laughing All the Way (Five Leaves, 1995).
IAN
CAWS has published nine collections of poetry, the last,
Dialogues in Mask, from Pikestaff Press. A previous collection,
The Ragmann Totts, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
MELANIE
CHALLENGER graduated from Oxford University in 2000. She
works as a freelance opera director and writer. Her poems have appeared
in numerous presses and she was the youngest winner of a £3000
Arts Council writing grant in 2002.
ANNE
CLUYSENAAR’s forthcoming collection contains a sequence
exploring the life of the great naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
and also a series of autobiographical poems. Timeslips appeared
from Carcanet (1997).
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 Metamor phic Adventures, 1996.
DONALD
DICKSON is Professor of English at Texas A & M University,
where he teaches Renaissance literature. He has most recently edited
Thomas and Rebecca Vaughan’s research notebook, Acqua Vitae.
PAT
EARNSHAW, a biology graduate, has published four books of
poetry and a pamphlet, The Golden Hinde(Redbeck, 2002). In
June 2002 she was awarded a South-East Arts Council grant towards
future work.
CLIVE
EASTWOOD was born in Haslingden, Lancashire and now lives
in Kent. His first collection Fly in Red Wine was published
at the end of 2000. He works as a Branch Manager for a plumbing
and heating merchant.
ROSE
FLINT is a poet, artist and art therapist. She is writer
in Residence for the Kingfisher project in Salisbury District Hospital.
Her first collection is Blue Horse of Morning (Seren).
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.
ALI
GLENNY has written all her life, and published an academic
book about Virginia Woolf as well as some journalism; however, this
is the first poem she has had published. She lives in London.
PAUL
GROVES, born in Gloucester, 1947, is an Open College of the
Arts tutor. He first came to public notice with Poetry Introduction
3 (Faber, 1975). Academe, Menage à Trois, and Eros
and Thanatos (Seren) have received substantial critical acclaim.
Wowsers appeared this June.
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 Tears
in the Fence. He contributed poems to the fourth and sixth issues
of Scintilla. We are grateful to his parents for permission
to publish The Unrepeatable Assembly.
ALYSON
HALLETT’s first book of poems, Towards Intimacy,
was published by Queriendo Press in 1999. Her work has also
been embodied in glass and stone, including the poem Arise which
was carved into the pavement of Milsom Street, Bath, last summer.
LUCY
HAMILTON started writing poetry in 1998 and has poems in
magazines and anthologies. She lives by the sea in Kent, and teaches
English to Chinese girls at a boarding school in Ashford.
GRAHAM
HARTILL is the Lifelines facilitator with the Ledbury
Poetry Festival., Cennau’s Bell his selected poems,
is due out this summer.
CAROL
HUGHES is a Canadian living in London. She has taught various
subjects including Chinese Art History. She began writing and painting
in her 50’s, and has published some poetry and fiction.
MARIA
JASTRZEBSKA was born in Warsaw, Poland and is the author
of Postcards From Poland (Working Press) and Home from
Home (Flarestack). She co-edited Forum Polek and has
poems in many anthologies and magazines.
LANCE
LEE publishes regularly here and in the US: a recent book,
Becoming Human, is available online or by order. Recent/forthcoming
publications include Ambit, Orbis, Acumen and Blue Unicorn (US).
GREVEL
LINDOP’s Selected Poems appeared from Carcanet
in 2000. He is Editor of Temenos Academy Review and currently
working on a biography of the poet and theologian Charles Williams.
HILARY
LLEWELLYN-WILLIAMS has three collections of poetry with Seren.
Her fourth, Greenland, is due out in spring 2003. She lives
in Pontypool and is a freelance writer and tutor. Her poems have
been widely anthologised, and will feature in a forthcoming issue
of Resurgence.
MARY
MACRAE has had poems published in various anthologies and
magazines including The Rialto, Magma, Staple, Orbis and
Scintilla, and will appear in the forthcoming Poetry School
anthology; Entering the Tapestry. She lives in London.
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.
EDMUND
MATYJASZEK was born in London, and educated at Wadham College,
Oxford. He has had poetry published by Harper Collins, Envoi, and
Staple among others, and has won several prizes.
HOLLY
FAITH NELSON, who teaches at Trinity Western University,
Canada, has published on the literature of the seventeenth and nineteenth
centuries. She edited the Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth
Century Verse and Prose with Alan Rudrum and Joseph Black and
is currently co-editing a volume of essays on Vaughan and Milton.
FIONA
OWEN’s forthcoming collection is Imagining the Full
Hundred, and In Between (CD of songs) is available from
info@yamoosh.com. Her critical paper in the work of John
Powell Ward is published in Welsh Writing in English, Vol. 7.
MARIO
PETRUCCI is winner of this year’s Arvon–Daily
Telegraph International Poetry Competition. His debut book, Shrapnel
and Sheets, is a PBS Recommendation (Headland). He is an ecologist
and lapsed physicist. (http://mariopetrucci.port5.com).
PHIL
POOLE was born in Birmingham, 1944, and lives in London near
Hampstead Heath. Professional woodcarver. Frequents several London
groups, e.g. Torriano, Survivors and Spinning Room in whose anthologies
are some of his poems.
MARY
POWLES started writing poetry whilst studying for a Master’s
degree in creative writing at Trinity College, Carmarthen, where
Menna Elfyn was her tutor. She teaches Drama in Llanelli.
CAROLINE
PRICE, violinist and teacher, lives in Kent. Poems and short
stories have appeared in a wide range of magazines and anthologies,
and two collections have been published, most recently Pictures
against Skin (Rockingham Press).
LYNNE
REES was born and brought up in South Wales, and teaches
creative writing for the University of Kent. Her poems appear in
The Pterodactyl’s Wing (Parthian, due Spring 2003)
MYRA
SCHNEIDER’s most recent collection is new and selected
poems, Insisting on Yellow (Enitharmon 2000). Writing
My Way Through Cancer, a fleshed out journal with poem notes
and poems, is due from Jessica Kingsley in March 2003.
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.
EDWINA
TRENTHAM has published in a number of periodicals and anthologies,
including The Massacbuesetts Review, Prairie Schooner, The American
Scholar, Harvard Magazine, and Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond
to the Nuclear Age.
PAMELA
VINCENT was born in the Bronx and now lives in London, where
she teaches yoga and writes poetry, prose and drama.
BRIAN
WALSHAM was born in Sheffield. Three small collections published
(Hesperus Press) – which then folded, also some poems in Sheaf.
All many years ago.
JOHN
POWELL WARD’s poetry includes The Clearing (Welsh
Arts Council Prize for 1985) and his most recent collection,
Late Thoughts in March (1999). Criticism includes books on
Wordsworth, Raymond Williams and R. S. Thomas, and he edits the
Borderlines series for Seren books.
JOHN
WELCH’s most recent collection of poems, Greeting
Want, appeared from Infernal Methods in 1997. Recently his prose
has appeared in PN Review, The London Review of Books and
elsewhere.
ANNA
WIGLEY writes poetry and stories, and lives in Cardiff. Her
work has appeared in many magazines, and a collection of poems,
The Bird Hospital, was published by Gomer in May 2002.
HELEN
WILCOX is Professor of English Literature at the University
of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research interests are in Shakespeare,
the seventeenth century devotional poets, autobiography and early
modern women writers, and she has edited Herbert’s poems for
the Longmans Annotated Poets series.
ROWAN
WILLIAMS became Archbishop of Canterbury in December 2002
after ten years as Bishop of Monmouth and three as Archbishop of
Wales, and has published several books on the history and spirituality
of the Christian Church, and three volumes of poetry He has longstanding
interests in the border territory between theology, philosophy and
the arts.
DILYS
WOOD runs the Second Light Network of older women poets.
She jointly edited the anthologies Parents (SLN/Enitharmon,
2000) and Making Worlds (SLN/Headland 2002/3). Her collection
is Women Come to a Death (Katabasis, 1997).
LYNNE
WYCHERLEY’s writing is often inspired by nature and
history. Her first full collection At the Edge of Light is being
published by Shoestring Press in autumn 2003.
ART
WORK: DAVID LEWIS is a farmer from Raglan. He has had a lifelong
interest in nature and has of recent years taken many photographs
of the wildlife and landscape of Monmouthshire. Those photographs
have formed the basis of a large number of slide shows presented
to organisations of all types. Plant breeding, especially of fuchsias
and streptocarpi, is another special interest. (Cover photograph:
‘Oak Tree in Snow, Clytha Hill’.)
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