First publication of the final part of Geoffrey Hill's 'Scenes from Comus', and poetry by Les Murray and Michael Hamburger. Anne Stevenson on John Berryman's study of Shakespeare. Marius Kociejowski meets Zbigniew Herbert and Thomas Wright discusses Ernest Dowson and Oscar Wilde. Fiction by Kenelm Macleod Averill, Jenny Morris, Jeff Phelps, Ruth Padel, Jai Clare, & Laurence O'Keeffe.

FICTION
Kenelm Macleod Averill, 'Tough'
Jenny Morris, 'East Coast'
Jeff Phelps, 'Moth'
Ruth Padel, 'The Radar Angels'
Jai Clare, 'Bone on Bone'
Laurence O'Keeffe, 'The Day Thou Gavest'

POETRY
Keith Holyoak, 'The Private Lives of Mr & Mrs Chen'
Shaun Traynor, 'The Waitress', 'The Artist's Wife', & 'Portrait, Not of a Lady'
Les Murray, 'The Hanging Gardens'
Jorge Luís Borges (translated by William Baer), 'On His Blindness'
Aidan Andrew Dun, 'Trade' & 'The Virgin of Potosí'
Carole Coates, 'Fanfaronade'
Stephanie de Montalk, 'Café Dionysus'
Alfie Howard, 'the muses'
Maureen Duffy, 'Phaeton'
Joanna Boulter, 'The English Hymnal'
Brian Patten, 'The Cottage in the Lane'
Peter Porter, 'Next to Last Harangue'
Diana Hendry, 'Last Post'
Michael Hamburger, 'Ave Atque Vale'
Anne Stevenson, 'Portrait of the Artist in an Orthopaedic Halo' & 'Remembering Paul Winstanley'
Will Stone, 'To Max'
Geoffrey Hill, 'Scenes from Comus'
Allen Tice, 'Sonnet to Orpheus'

FEATURES
Thomas Wright on Ernest Dowson
Four drawings by Gerald Mangan
Marius Kociejowski meets Zbigniew Herbert

REVIEWS
Lindsay Clarke on Patrick Harpur
David Andrew Platzer on James Lees-Milne
Zenga Longmore on Jeremy Trafford's Ophelia
Caitriona O'Reilly on Chris Emery, Keith Jones, & Edward Lucie-Smith
Jonathan Steffen on Christopher Hamilton
Anne Stevenson on John Berryman

Cover: Gerald Wilde (1905-1986), 'Pompeii' (1976, gouache on paper)

Kenelm Macleod Averill has a masters degree from the University of Strathclyde and works for the secretariat of Sheffield Hallam University.
William Baer lives in Indiana. He is the founding editor of The Formalist and the author of The Unfortunates, winner of the New Odyssey Press T.S.Eliot Prize.
Joanna Boulter won a Northern Promise Award from New Writing North.
Jai Clare's fiction is published by The Barcelona Review, Night Train (USA), & Winedark Sea (Australia).
Lindsay Clarke is working on his novel Sun at Midnight.
Carole Coates publishes in the literary press. Winner of a Yorkshire Arts Award.
Maureen Duffy has published 28 works, including 5 books of poetry. She is writing her novel Alchemy.
Aidan Andrew Dun. Goldmark published his long poems Vale Royal (1995) and Universal (2002).
Michael Hamburger has translated Hölderlin, Rilke, Peter Huchel, & W.G.Sebald. Shorter poems: Intersections (Anvil 2000). He has over 150 publications & two honorary doctorates.
Diana Hendry. Two books of poetry, Making Blue and Borderers (both from Peterloo). Thirty books for children, including Harvey Angell, winner of a Whitbread Award.
Geoffrey Hill. Collected Poems (1985), Canaan (1996), The Triumph of Love (1999), Speech! Speech! (2000), all from Penguin. Professor of Literature and Religion.
Keith Holyoak is Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of California.
Alfie Howard. Asbestos stripper & writer. First collection published in 1998.
Marius Kociejowski. Three collections of poetry, Coast (Greville Press), Doctor Honoris Causa and Music's Bride (both from Anvil).
Zenga Longmore reviews for The Evening Standard, The Daily Telegraph, and The Spectator.
Gerald Mangan. Poetry, Waiting for the Storm (Bloodaxe 1990). Contributor, TLS, Poetry Review, Le Monde. Exhibition at the Poetry Library on the South Bank (2002).
Stephanie de Montalk. Prize-winning New Zealand poet; biographer of Count Potocki.
Jenny Morris. Her work has been anthologised and read on radio.
Les Murray. Selected Prose (Carcanet 1992). Poetry published worldwide.
Laurence O'Keeffe was Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. He has published two novels and a study of American foreign policy.
Caitriona O'Reilly. Poetry, The Nowhere Birds (Bloodaxe 2001). Reviews for the TLS and Thumbscrew.
Ruth Padel's new collection Voodoo Shop was reviewed in The London Magazine June/July 2002. Her 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem (Chatto 2002) is about the reading of contemporary poetry.
Brian Patten, born 1946, writes for children and adults. The Story Giant published by Collins in 2002.
Jeff Phelps is an architect. He won the 1991 Mail on Sunday novel competition.
Peter Porter received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2002.
David Andrew Platzer is a writer living near Paris. He is working on a novel.
Anne Stevenson . Collected Poems published by Bloodaxe. She won the first Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award. It may interest readers to know this is worth £60,000.
Jonathan Steffen . Published in Signals and The London Magazine.
Will Stone has published translations of Trakl, Schiele, Baudelaire, & Verhaeren. Menard Press published his version of Les Chimères by Gérard de Nerval in 1999.
Allen Tice lives in New York. Work published by Gamut, The New Republic Leviathan Quarterly, & The Classical Association (UK).
Shaun Traynor is a Northern Irish poet and novelist living in London.
Gerald Wilde (1905-1986). Featured in The London Magazine June/July 2002.
Thomas Wright. The London Magazine would be grateful to learn of his whereabouts.