Jeremy Worman remembers Alan Ross. Rita Banerji discusses the erotic Hindu sculpture of the 13th century. Anthony Rudolf reviews Victor Brombert and Alexis Lykiard reviews Jim Burns. Extract from Joolz Denby's novel The Rape of Billie Morgan. Fiction by Deborah Kaple, Jai Clare. Poetry by Clive Wilmer, Christopher Middleton, Peter Abbs, John Greening, Aidan Andrew Dun, & Ruth Padel.

FICTION
Deborah Kaple, 'Ruthie's Diary'
Jai Clare, 'Balloons'
Joolz Denby, 'The Rape of Billie Morgan'

POETRY
Clive Wilmer, 'In The Beginning'
John Greening, 'Tight Rope'
Peter Abbs, 'Bunch of Nasturtiums'
Stephen Newman, 'A Character in Search of a Novel'
Duncan Bush, 'The Rom out of Romania'
James Kirkup, 'For Whom Do I Write?' & 'Instead of a Machine'
Ruth Padel, 'Apotropaic'
Christopher Middleton, 'A Water Insect' & 'A Static Raft'
Paul Groves, 'The Wasp Trap'
Michael Glover, 'Few Things Happen'
Julie Whitby, 'O My Summer Garden'
Swithun Cooper, 'Carnivalette'
John Levett, 'Pillion'
Terry Johnson, 'Pound's Oyster'
Gary Allen, 'They are bringing him home'
Andy Croft, 'The Ballad of Writing Gaol'
Aidan Andrew Dun, 'De Havilland'

FEATURES
Jeremy Worman, 'Lies, Fiction, Truth'
Anthony Howell on the poems of Henry Reed
Rita Banerji on Hindu erotic sculpture
Art by Kathleen Paenson, Stephen Conroy, Richard Eurich, & an unknown artist

REVIEWS
Alexis Lykiard on Jim Burns
Angela Tilby on Tessa Rajak and Josephus
Anita Jackson on Tony Bicât and Tony Macnabb's guide to screenwriting
Toby Lichtig on Brian Howell and Gary Ley
Richard Parish on Angela Green
Kenelm Macleod Averill on Jean Giono, Li Ang, & Wendy Perriam
Robert Nye on Wordsworth's daffodils
Anthony Rudolf on Victor Brombert
Daniel Jeffreys on Augustus Young
Anne Stevenson on Peter Scupham

Cover: 'The Supreme Buddha or Vajrasattva in union with Supreme Wisdom or Visvatara' (18th century Tibetan bronze)

Peter Abbs. His polemic Against the Flow published by Falmer Routledge in 2003.
Gary Allen's latest collection of poems is Languages (Lambard/Black Mountain 2002). He lives in Northern Ireland.
Rita Banerji is a journalist and photographer living in Calcutta.
Duncan Bush. Recent poems Midway (Seren). Writing a novel.
Jai Clare's fiction is published by The Barcelona Review, Night Train (USA), & Winedark Sea (Australia).
Stephen Conroy. Born in Helensburgh, Scotland. www.marlboroughfineart.com
Swithun Cooper. Simon Elvin Young Poet of the Year 2000, 18 years old at time of publication. New Poetries III (Carcanet 2002).
Andy Croft. Great North (Iron 2001). Writer-in-Residence at HMP Holme House, Stockton.
Joolz Denby. Short stories; novels Stone Baby & Corazon (HarperCollins). Novel The Rape of Billie Morgan long-listed for Orange Prize 2005. www.joolz.net
Aidan Andrew Dun. Long poems Vale Royal and Universal (Goldmark 1995 & 2003).
Richard Eurich, 1903-1992, visionary artist.
Michael Glover's recent poems Amidst all this Debris (Dagger Press).
John Greening's new poems, The Home Key, will be published by Shoestring in 2003.
Paul Groves writes for Poetry Review and Poetry Wales. Winner of the TLS Prize. Published by Seren.
Anthony Howell, ex-Royal Ballet dancer, founded The Theatre of Mistakes. Anvil poet.
Anita Jackson's short stories are published and forthcoming in The London Magazine.
Daniel Jeffreys has stories in Ambit and The London Magazine.
Terry Johnson has been an Ezra Pound scholar for 35 years. Poems published in UK & USA.
Deborah Kaple is a freelance writer and editor in Princeton. Dream of a Red Factory (OUP). Short stories in American Writing and The MacGuffin.
James Kirkup lives in Andorra. Shields Sketches (Hub Editions 2002).
John Levett won the National Poetry Competition. Their Perfect Lives shortlisted for the Whitbread.
Toby Lichtig worked as an intern at the TLS. Reviews for the TLS and Ham & High.
Alexis Lykiard. Recent poems include Skeleton Keys (Redbeck).
Christopher Middleton is a poet & translator. Crypto-Topographia (Enitharmon 2002).
Stephen Newman lectured in English Literature at Liverpool University for 18 years. Writes for the New Statesman and the TLS and has published two books on Dickens.
Ruth Padel FRSL. Sixth collection The Soho Leopard (2004).
Kathleen Paenson (1924-2002). Attended Sidcup School of Art and the Slade. www.kathleenpaenson.co.uk
Richard Parish is Professor of French at the University of Oxford.
Anthony Rudolf runs the Menard Press.
Anne Stevenson won the first Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award worth £60,000.
Reverend Angela Tilby is Vice-Principal of Westcott House in Cambridge.
Julie Whitby. Poems for Lovers (Agenda Editions); The Violet Room (Acumen).
Clive Wilmer. Selected Poems (1995); The Falls (Worple 2000).
Jeremy Worman reviews for The Observer, The New Statesman, and the TLS.