ISSUE 10 (2006)
[240pp. ISBN 09530674-9-1. 7.50]

Contents: Articles
 John Hines, ‘“Aire disguis’d”: Metaphors of Genre and Henry Vaughan’s Sacred
Hymns’
 Jeremy Hooker, ‘Reflections on “ground”’
 Jonathan Nauman and Peter Thomas, ‘Sir Charles Egerton of Newborough’
 Holly Faith Nelson, ‘“Make all things new! And without end!” The Eschatological Vision of Henry Vaughan’
 Glyn Pursglove, ‘“Storms turn to music”’
 Myra Schneider, ‘Repair: Writing, Poetry and Therapy’
 John Powell Ward, ‘Traherne’s Cosmic Consciousness’
 John Welch, ‘When in Rome’

Contents: Poetry
 Gary Allen, ‘Equinox’
 John Barnie, ‘Between the Town and Llanwenarth’; ‘The Deri in August’
 Glenda Beagan, ‘Time’s Egg’; ‘Brighid’
 Ruth Bidgood, ‘Renegade’
 Linda Black, ‘Who is to say?’
 Alison Brackenbury, ‘In Orbit’; ‘On the visit’
 B.J. Buckley, ‘Parallel Universe’
 Anne Cluysenaar, ‘Now’
 Tony Connor, ‘Phillips Table Model V’
 Clare Crossman, ‘Sunflowers’
 Neil Curry, ‘Beneath the Wave Off Kanagawa’
 Pat Earnshaw, ‘Fugitive Art’
 Rose Flint, ‘Creative Writing: for J’
 Kate Foley, ‘To Dream of Animals’
 Peter Gruffydd, ‘Mixing Colours’
 Graham Hartill, ‘Bronze Fennel’
 Seamus Heaney, ‘Moyulla’
 Jeremy Hilton, ‘A Long Darkness’
 Jacqueline Karp, ‘Caged in’
 Mimi Khalvati, ‘On Lines from Fahmida Riaz and Foroogh Farrokhzad’; Ghazal (of Ghazals)’; ‘On a Line from Sappho’
 John Killick, ‘The Big House’
 Lotte Kramer, ‘The Ampersand’
 Mary MacRae, ‘Stone Lanterns’; As dew’
 Mary Michaels, ‘Fresco’
 Hubert Moore, ‘Watering’
 Fiona Owen, ‘Why I write’
 Ann Phillips, ‘Life Mask’
 Jane Routh, ‘The Path to the Helleborine’; ‘The River Pilot’s Wife’
 Anne Ryland, ‘Seal Song’
 Penelope Shuttle, ‘Shawl of Dew’; ‘Fatherghost’
 Mercer Simpson, ‘The Island of Fishermen’; ‘For the Lost Explorers’
 Kim Taplin, ‘Not a Breath’; ‘”We Are Made To Lov”’
 Brian Walsham, ‘See’
 Lynne Wycherley, ‘The Westray Angel’
 Open Poetry Competition, Short Poems:
       Pat Borthwick, ‘Past Twelve O’clock’ (1st Prize)
       Kate Foley, ‘Throwing Up The Baby’ (2nd Prize)
       Lauraine Palmeri, ‘The Story of Hen-body and the Secret Self of Egg’ (3rd Prize)
      Commended:
       Linda Black ‘See a Penny’
       Daphne Gloag, ‘Adam Delving’
       Mary MacRae, ‘The Clearing’
       M.C. Newton, ‘A window in our new house overlooks the sea’
       Dilys Wood, ‘In Northamptonshire, I Am’
 Open Poetry Competition, Long Poems:
       Stephen Parr, ‘Visiting the Etruscan Tombs at Volterra’ (1st Prize)
       Sean Street, ‘The Broadcast’ (2nd Prize)
       Elizabeth Burns, ‘Interiors (after Gwen John)’ (3rd Prize)
      Commended:
       Heather Coffey, ‘Votive’
       Rose Flint, ‘The City of Cherished Words’
       Giles Goodland, ‘Myths of the Origin of Language’
       Amanda Parkin, ‘Skin’

Visual Art
Issue 10 features images (inc. cover art) from the oil paintings of Ernest Zobole (1927–1999).

Contributors
 GARY ALLEN was born in Ballymena, Co. Antrim. Three collections: Languages, Flambard/Black Mountain, 2002; Exile, Black Mountain, 2004; North of Nowhere, Lagan Press, 2005. A novel, Cillin, Black Mountain, 2005.
 JOHN BARNIE’s latest collection is At the Salt Hotel, Headland, 2003. Sea Lilies: Selected Poems 1984-2003 will be published by Seren in the summer of 2006.
 GLENDA BEAGAN is a native of Rhuddlan, North Wales. She has published two volumes of short stories, The Medlar Tree and Changes and Dreams, both with Seren, and a poetry collection, Vixen, with Honno.
 RUTH BIDGOOD’s New and Selected Poems, Seren, 2004, was short-listed for the Roland Mathias Prize. Her 1992 selection and The Fluent Moment, 1996, were short-listed for the Welsh Book of the Year. She lives in mid-Wales.
 LINDA BLACK studied Fine Art at Leeds Art College and etching at the Slade. Her poems have been published in various magazines and in the anthology Entering the Tapestry, Enitharmon.
 PAT BORTHWICK lives on a farm near the North Yorkshire Moors. Her writing has its roots in changing land and skyscapes. Her latest collection, Swim, was published by Mudfog in March, 2005.
 ALISON BRACKENBURY’s latest collection of poems is Bricks and Ballads, Carcanet, 2004. New poems can be seen on her website,ww.alisonbrackenbury.co.uk.
 B.J. BUCKLEY, a Montana writer, teaches in Arts-in-Schools Programmes. Her new book of poems, with co-author Dawn Senior, is Moonhorses and the Red Bull, Pronghorn Press, Greybull, Wyoming.
 ELIZABETH BURNS has published two collections of poetry and several pamphlets, including The Blue Flower: Poems on the Life and Art of Gwen John, Galdragon Press, 2004.
 ANNE CLUYSENAAR: Timeslips (Carcanet, 1997); in 2008 Seren intends to publish her sequence in Alfred Russell Wallace; currently working (supported by a Welsh Academi Writers Bursary) on a group of geological poems, Wales Through Time.
 HEATHER COFFEY lives in the Chilterns and has poems in competition anthologies and in South, Magma and Entering the Tapestry, Enitharmon. She has completed her first collection, The Water Common.
 TONY CONNOR was born in Manchester in 1930, where he was a textile designer for sixteen years. He has lived and taught in the USA. His Things Unsaid, New and Selected Poems 1960-2005 is due out from Anvil Press Poetry in May 2006.
 CLARE CROSSMAN lives in Cambridgeshire. She has published Landscapes, Redbeck Press, 1996, Going Back, Firewater Press, 2002 and The Shell Notebook Poems, Shoestring Press, 2004. ‘Sunflowers’ is from Fenlight, poems for music.
 NEIL CURRY lives in the Lake District. His most recent collection is The Road to the Gunpowder House. His study of Christopher Smart was published in 2005 by Northcote House.
 PAT EARNSHAW’s manuscript based on childhood memories of infancy won an Arts Council of England South East grant, and was a semi-finalist in the Robert E. Lee and Ruth L. Wilson Poetry Award Contest (USA) in 2004. Her pamphlet, Gothic Tales, was listed in the Poetry Book Society’s Winter Bulletin 2005.
 ROSE FLINT is Poet in Residence for the Kingfisher Project in Salisbury, using writing in a variety of healthcare settings. Her latest collections are Firesigns, Poetry Salzburg and Nekyia, Stride.
 KATE FOLEY has worked as a nurse, midwife and teacher; but much of her working life was spent in the field of archaeological science and conservation. She now lives in Amsterdam while working on her fourth collection.
 DAPHNE GLOAG worked in medical editing and journalism. Diversities of Silence, Brentham Press, appeared in 1995. Prizes include the Poetry on the Lake (first prize) and Scintilla (long poem, third prize). She’s married to poet Peter Williamson.
 GILES GOODLAND lives in London and works on a dictionary, His last book was A Spy in the House of Years. A further book, Capital, is due from Salt next year.
 PETER GRUFFYDD, Bristol-based, widely published, award-winning poet, translator and writer, at present engaged on a long work about prisons, after a Residency at HMP Long Lartin, Worcestershire.
 GRAHAM HARTILL lives in the Black Mountains. His selected poems, Cennau’s Bell, was published by the Collective Press in 2005 and his latest collection, Winged Heads, is due from Parthian Books this year.
 SEAMUS HEANEY’s latest collection of poetry, District and Circle, is due to be published on May 2nd, 2006, the fortieth anniversary of his first collection, Death of a Naturalist.
 JEREMY HILTON has eleven books of poetry, including a long poem Shadow Engineering, Galloping Dog Press, 1991, and Slipstream, Edizioni Ripostes, 2003. Lighting Up Tim, Troubadour Press, his new collection, appears in 2006. Edits and publishes Fire.
 JOHN HINES, after working in field archaeology, read English Language and Literature and took his D.Phil in Archaeology at Oxford. From 1983–97 he lectured in English at Cardiff University before transferring to a Chair in the School of History and Archaeology. His recent Voices in the Past integrates these two strands of study.
 JEREMY HOOKER’s The Cut of the Light: Poems 1965-2005 is forthcoming from Enitharmon. His poetry has been recorded by ‘The Poetry Archive’.
 JACQUELINE KARP’s second collection of poetry, Tears of Honey and Gold, Five Leaves, 2004, dwells on her attachment to Spain
 MIMI KHALVATI’s Carcanet collections include Selected Poems (2000) and The Chine (2002). She is the founder of The Poetry School, and currently holds a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at City University.
 JOHN KILLICK is a published poet and critic. Co-author with Myra Schneider of Writing for Self-Discovery, Element, 1997. He works with dementia patients and is Associate Research Fellow in Communication through the Arts at Stirling University.
 LOTTE KRAMER, widely published poet, with ten books, most recently Black Over Red, The Phantom Lane, and Selected and New Poems from Rockingham Press. Anthologised in England and abroad. Also an exhibited painter.
 MARY MacRAE has published in magazines including Scintilla, PN Review and Magma; poems also appear in Four Caves of the Heart, Second Light Publications, and in the Poetry School Anthology, Entering the Tapestry, Enitharmon.
 MARY MICHAELS’ collection of poems, The Shape of the Rock, Sea Cow. 2003, was selected for the Alternative Generation list in 2005. A selection of prose fictions will be appearing in 2006.
 HUBERT MOORE’ sixth full collection, The Hearing Room, is due from Shoestring Press in 2006. Also from Shoestring is his latest collection, Touching Down in Utopia.
JONATHAN NAUMAN has taught literature and writing at colleges in Pennsylvania and New England. His Vaughan work has appeared in Scintilla, the George Herbert Journal and the Huntington Library Quarterly.
 HOLLY FAITH NELSON teaches at Trinity Western University, Canada. She has published articles on Vaughan, Shakespeare, Margaret Cavendish and James Hogg; and recently co-edited Eikon Basilike and Of Paradise and Light:Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton in Honor of Alan Rudrum.
 M.C. NEWTON lives is North Wales. Her work appears regularly in poetry magazines, and her first collection will be published by Peterloo Poets in 2006.
 FIONA OWEN is the author of Imagining the Full Hundred and O My Swan. She also co-writes and performs music with Gorwel Owen, and teaches literature, humanities and creative writing for the Open University.
 LAURAINE PALMERI has published in many magazines: Staple, Iota, Obsessed with Pipework, Outposts, Fatchance, Interpreter’s House, etc. Past occupations include journalism and social work. Now retired from her vegetarian B&B, she is researching family history.
 AMANDA PARKYN started writing poetry in her 60’s. She lives in Staffordshire and maintains close links with South Africa. Her poems have appeared in Poetry News, Mslexia, Raw Edge and the Ticking Crocodile anthology.
 STEPHEN PARR is a member of the Western Buddhist Order, established in 1968. He is also co-leader of ‘Wolf at the Door’, leading professional creative writing courses around the world. He now lives in Bristol and writes full-time.
 ANN PHILLIPS has worked in publishing and college administration, and lives in Cambridge. She had poems included in Oxford Poets 2004 and is currently working on a collection.
 GLYN PURSGLOVE, Reader of English at the University of Wales Swansea, has published widely, including much on seventeenth century and modern poetry. Several of his papers, originating at the annual Vaughan Association Colloquiums, have appeared in Scintilla. He is reviews editor of Acumen.
 JANE ROUTH won the Poetry Business Competition with Circumnavigation which was shortlisted for the Forward (Best First Collection) Prize in 2003. Recent poems feature in The Allotment: New Lyric Poets, ed. Andy Brown, 2006.
 ANNE RYLAND’s first collection, Autumnologist, will be published by Arrowhead Press in May. Last year she received a Northern Promise Award from New Writing North.
 MYRA SCHNEIDER’s most recent books are Writing My Way Through Cancer, a journal with poems, Jessica Kingsley, 2003, and Multiplying the Moon, Enitharmon, 2004. She is currently co-editing with Dilys Wood Images of Women (due from Arrowhead/SLP in October), work by contemporary women poets partly Arts Council funded.
 PENELOPE SHUTTLE is the widow of Peter Redgrove. A Hawthornden Fellow, 2005, her new collection, Redgrove’s Wife, appears from Bloodaxe in June, 2006. She has lived in Cornwall since 1970.
MERCER SIMPSON’s poetry collections are East Anglian Wordscapes and Rain from a Clear Blue Sky. Many of his poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies, particularly in Wales.
 SEAN STREET has published six collections of poetry. Prose includes texts on radio history, as well as writings on Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Dymock Poets. He has worked in radio as a writer, producer and presenter for 35 years, and is Professor of Radio at Bournemouth University.
 KIM TAPLIN has written a number of books including The English Path, Perry Green Press, a study of footpaths in literature and, most recently, From Parched Creek, Redbeck Press, a volume of poetry.
 PETER THOMAS’ latest essay, ‘Henry Vaughan, Orpheus, and The Empowerment of Poetry’, appeared in Of Paradise and Light: Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton in Honor of Alan Rudrum, University of Delaware Press, 2005.
 BRIAN WALSHAM born in Sheffield, was a prolific writer of poetry and a staunch supporter of the UVVA and Scintilla. It is with sorrow that we received news of his recent death.
 JOHN POWELL WARD is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wales, Swansea. In 2004 he published his Selected and New Poems, Seren, and The Spell of the Song, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, USA, a wide-ranging study of the alphabet, its theory and applications. He lives in Kent and Gower.
 JOHN WELCH, born in London in 1942 and retired from school-teaching four years ago, has recently published a number of articles touching his experience of psychoanalysis. His fourth collection of poems, The Eastern Boroughs, appeared from Shearsman Books in 2004.
 DILYS WOOD is the co-ordinator of Second Light Poets and SLN Publishing. Her collection is Women Come to Death, Katabasis, 1997.
 LYNNE WYCHERLEY’s second collection, North Flight, is due from Shoestring Press in July, 2006. It charts a lyrical journey from her birth-place in the Fens to Orkney, Shetland and Iceland.

ART WORK: ERNEST ZOBOLE (1927–1999) was born and spent almost all his life in the Rhondda Valley. That place, where rural and urban are not things apart, was from first to last the great subject of his painting. He was an artist intensely absorbed with his locality, totally committed, and so identifying with it that after the 1960s he effectively withdrew from the metropolitan art world, not in order to retreat into a narrow provincialism, but to go his own way, enter ever more deeply into the treal landscape of his imagination. Rooted in place—and in European visual culture—he found a way of being both fixed and free, inside and outside, looking on and exploring within, of being simultaneously local and universal. For his art was anything but stationary, evolving through the years (as he and the valley changed) from pricture as window to a form of painting, a kind of magic realism, in which he could, as he put it, ‘travel around in space and time’—and, not least, thrust himself into his landscape, the detached and involved observer, visionary painter of mankind's paradoxical condition beneath the stars.

Cover image: ‘Penrhys’ (c. 1950), oil on board, 61 x 39.5cm. Reproduced courtesy of the National Museum and Galleries of Wales. Copyright rests with the Estate of Ernest Zobole.

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