Brian Sewell on Michelangelo's sculpture and drawing. Edward Chaney on the significance of Egypt in the thought of Freud, and Peter Abbs on the cosmology of Heraclitus. Clive Wilmer speaks to Peter Campion and Simon Darragh remembers Richard Wollheim. Stephen Romer reviews Charles Olson and Glyn Hughes considers the combination of Coleridge's poetry and David Jones's art. Fiction by Saïdeh Pakravan, J.H. Kaimakliotis & Carol Kellar.

FICTION
'Eddie and the Princess', Saïdeh Pakravan
'Pursuit of Happiness', J.H. Kaimakliotis
'Mrs Jacob's Ladder', Carol Kellar

POETRY
'Dispersals' & 'The Fifth Marquess of Anglesey', John Fuller
'Church' & 'Jet Propulsion Stereo', Les Murray
'David Icon', John Kinsella
'A Hill Farmer Speaks' & 'Crosses', Nigel McLoughlin
'O', Philip Gross
'St Apollonia of Alexandria', D.M. de Silva
'Loose Connections', 'In a Flash' & 'Piccadilly in the Sunshine', Connie Bensley
'Night Walk', Lucie McKee
'Mature Artist's Model' & 'The End of Innocence', Gordon Scapens
'Poetwatching', Anthony Edkins
'The Angle of Prayer', Clementine Patrick-Brown
'Playing Safe', 'My Letters', 'Unwanted' & 'I Know the Place', Hugo Williams
'UXB', John Levett
'London Blues', Jehane Markham
'Self-Portrait of a Gallery', John Weston

FEATURES
Brian Sewell on Michelangelo
Clive Wilmer interviewed by Peter Campion
Peter Abbs on Heraclitus
Edward Chaney, 'Freudian Egypt'

REVIEWS
Stephen Romer on Charles Olson
Simon Darragh on Richard Wollheim
Glyn Hughes on Coleridge & David Jones
Toby Lichtig on E.A. Markham
Oliver Dennis on David Constantine
Jacqueline Karp on L.P. Harvey and Muslims in Spain
Anthony Rudolf on Reiner Kunze and Mireille Gansel

Cover: Freud's desk with part of his collection of antiquities (Peter Aprahamian, photograph).

Peter Abbs, b north Norfolk coast. Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Sussex. Poetry editor of Resurgence. 7 collections of poetry.
Connie Bensley lives in London. 5 collections of poetry, the most recent The Back and the Front of It (Bloodaxe).
Peter Campion's book of poems, Other People (2005), was published by University of Chicago Press. He teaches at Stanford University.
Edward Chaney. Professor of Fine and Decorative Arts at Southampton Solent University. Author of books on Italy, the Grand Tour, and the history of collecting. An extended and annotated version of his article will appear later in 2006 in Sites of Exchange: European Crossroads and Faultlines, edited by Maurizio Ascari and Adriana Corrado, Rodopi, Amsterdam, under the title 'Egypt in England and America'.
Simon Darragh divides his time between Kent and the Greek island of Alonissos. Poet & translator from the Greek. Teaches music to children.
Oliver Dennis is a regular contributor to the literary press in Australia and Britain. He lives in Melbourne.
Anthony Edkins lives in Enfield, London.
Philip Gross's new collection of poetry, his 12th, is The Egg of Zero (Bloodaxe 2006). Latest novel: The Storm Garden (OUP 2006). Poetry/art collaboration with engraver Peter Reddick, The Abstract Garden (forthcoming The Old Stile Press 2006).
John Fuller's most recent books are Flawed Angel (a novel, 2005) and Ghosts (2004), his 15th collection of poems. Also available from Chatto & Windus is the paperback edition of his Collected Poems (2002).
Glyn Hughes, the poet and novelist, lives in West Yorkshire.
J.H. Kaimakliotis was raised in Montana, educated in Lausanne, and trained as an actress in London, where she now lives with her Greek Cypriot husband. Published in The London Magazine.
Jacqueline Karp, after a doctorate in Hispano-Arabic Studies in the UK, moved to France, where she teaches in the Académie de Poitiers. Her second collection of poetry, Tears of Honey and Gold (Five Leaves Publications), draws on Spain's multi-cultural heritage.
Carol Kellar lives in a suburb in Altrincham in Cheshire.
John Kinsella's most recent books of poetry are Peripheral Light: Selected & New Poems (Norton 2003), Doppler Effect: Collected Experimental Poems (Salt 2004), and The New Arcadia (orton 2005). He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.
John Levett has published 3 collections of poetry. Their Perfect Lives was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize. Winner of the National Poetry Competition.
Toby Lichtig is a commissioning editor at the TLS. http://www.the-tls.co.uk.
Jehane Markham lives in Kentish Town. 30 Poems (Rough Winds 2004). Her jazz opera Hermes has its premiere at the Rosemary Branch Theatre in Islington in October 2006.
Nigel McLoughlin. PhD from Lancaster University. Field Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire. Poetry: At the Water's Clearing (Flambard / Blackmountain 2001), Songs For No Voices (Lagan 2004), and Blood (Bluechrome 2005).
Lucie McKee. Poems in the TLS, Poetry Review, The Rialto, Stand, Dream Catcher. She won the Poetry Review Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2004.
Les Murray. Australian poet and essayist. He lives in Bunyah, New South Wales.
Saïdeh Pakravan is a poet and fiction writer of Iranian origin and French culture. She lives in Virginia in the United States. Her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. Author of The Arrest of Hoveydah: Stories of the Iranian Revolution.
Clementine Patrick-Brown lives in Chearsley in Buckinghamshire.
Stephen Romer, poetry Tribute (1998). 20th Century French Poems (Faber 2002). He lives in Mognes in France.
Gordon Scapens. Retired early from electronics to concentrate on poetry, wlaking, cycling, and choir singing. 500 poems in various magazines.
Brian Sewell, the art historian, broadcaster and columnist.
D.M. de Silva teaches English at the University of Salzburg. He translates poetry from the German and has published his translation of Stefan George's Year of the Soul.
Sir John Weston lives in Richmond. A retired diplomat, he has been writing poetry since 2002. Winner of Peterloo Open and Yorkshire Open poetry competitions in 2004 & 2005. First collection Chasing the Hoopoe (Peterloo 2005). His poem celebrating the 10th anniversary of the National Portrait Gallery has 150 syllables.
Hugo Williams. Old Etonian. Collected Poems (Faber 2002). T.S. Eliot Prize, Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. His latest book is Dear Room (Faber 2006). Writes the 'Freelance' column in the TLS.
Clive Wilmer, poet (photographed by his son Gabriel Wilmer).