Kyriakos Athanasiou looks back on the aftermath of the Greek Civil War and Andy Croft reviews the war poetry of Frank Thompson. Peter Dickinson explains his composition of 'Larkin's Jazz' and Hilary Davies discusses the work of W.S. Graham. HRH The Prince of Wales' eulogy for Kathleen Raine. Fiction by Graham Mort. Poetry by Ruth Fainlight, Neil Powell, Shaun Traynor, Jeremy Reed, & Ben Okri.

FICTION
Graham Mort, 'Daniel'
Kyriakos Athanasiou (translated by Simon Darragh), 'Bandit's Boy'

POETRY
Neil Powell, 'Dusk in the Surrey Hills'
Ruth Fainlight, 'Mosaic'
Shaun Traynor, 'Vauxhall Cross'
Jeremy Reed, 'Missing'
George Gömöri (translated by Clive Wilmer and George Gömöri), 'Young Woman with Water-Jug'
James Norcliffe, 'Chalk'
James Aitchison, 'Sparrows' Footprints'
Michael Cullup, 'Migraine'
Fred Beake, 'At Wells Cathedral'
Stephen Newman, 'Alzheimer's'
Ben Okri, 'The Aftermath'
Peter Abbs, 'Learning How Not To Live'
Jim Greenhalf, 'Hoagy Carmichael'
Kathleen McPhilemy, 'intingit mecum manum in paropside'

FEATURES
Anthony Rudolf remembers Carl Rakosi
Alan Turnbull, 'Etchings after Nabokov'
Peter Dickinson, 'Larkin's Jazz'
A.D. Harvey, 'Comedian'
Jenö Medveczky, 'Young Woman with Water-Jug'
HRH The Prince of Wales, 'Eulogy for Kathleen Raine'
Alice Neel, 'Portraits'
Anthony Carroll on Paul Potts
Christopher Barker, 'Photograph of Paul Potts'
John Deakin, 'Photograph of W.S. Graham'

REVIEWS
Hilary Davies on W.S. Graham
Peter Abbs on Rosalie Osmond
Duncan Bush on Céleste Albaret
Andy Croft on Frank Thompson
Herbert Lomas on C.K. Williams, Anne Beresford, and Osip Mandelstam
Robert Carver on V.S. Naipaul
Robert Fraser on David Dabydeen
Anthony Howell on Adolfo Bioy Casares

Cover: Alice Neel (1900-1984), 'Black Spanish Family' (1950, oil on canvas)

Peter Abbs, ed. Earth Songs, an anthology of eco-poetry (Green Books/Resurgence 2002).
James Aitchison, 4 collections of poetry, critical study The Golden Harvester: The Vision of Edwin Muir.
Kyriakos Athanasiou is a lecturer in environmental biology at the University of Thessaloniki.
Christopher Barker, freelance photographer, Portraits of Poets (Carcanet 1986).
Fred Beake, poet, translator, critic, Aristophanes' Peace (University of Pennsylvania Press).
Duncan Bush. Poetry Midway (Seren). Edits The Amsterdam Review.
Anthony Carroll is a Child Psychiatrist Consultant living in Galway in Ireland.
Robert Carver's The Accursed Mountains: Journeys in Albania (Flamingo) was shortlisted for the 1999 Thomas Cook Travel Award.
Andy Croft. Writer-in-Residence at HMP Holme House, Stockton.
Michael Cullup, Royal Navy, teacher, Road into Autumn (Fen Press 2002).
Simon Darragh, b 1944, poet & translator, lives on the Greek island of Alonnisos.
Hilary Davies reviews for the TLS, Poetry Review, The Tablet, The New York Times Review of Books. Her poetry is published by Enitharmon.
John Deakin, 1912-1972, photographer. Definitive treatment of his work John Deakin: Photographs Selected & with an Essay by Robin Muir (Vendome 1996).
Peter Dickinson. Emeritus Professor at the Universities of Keele & London. Composer, writer, & pianist. Books on Lennox Berkeley, Billy Mayerl, & Copland.
Ruth Fainlight's most recent collection is Burning Wire (Bloodaxe).
Robert Fraser, books on Sir James Fraser, Proust, George Barker, & Ben Okri.
George Gömöri, b Hungary, Emeritus Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.
Jim Greenhalf, 12 books of poetry & prose (4 with Redbeck).
A.D. Harvey. Sex in Georgian England (1994, p/b 2001), A Muse of Fire: Literature, Art & War (1998), Warriors of the Rainbow (2000), a novel.
Anthony Howell. Ex Royal Ballet dancer, founded The Theatre of Mistakes, Anvil poet.
HRH The Prince of Wales, b 14th November 1948.
Herbert Lomas, poet & critic. The Vale of Todmorden (Arc 2003).
Kathleen McPhilemy, Witness to Magic (Hearing Eye) & A Tented Place (Katabasis).
Jenö Medveczky, 1902-1969, Hungarian artist, Munkácsy Prize 1969, exhibitions Ernst Museum Budapest 2002, Clare Hall Cambridge 2004.
Graham Mort directs the British Council Crossing Borders project for African writers.
Alice Neel, 1900-1984, portraitist.
Stephen Newman writes for the New Statesman and the TLS. Published two books on Dickens.
James Norcliffe, former Burns Fellow at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Four collections of poetry.
Ben Okri, FRSL, poet & novelist, winner of the Booker Prize.
Neil Powell, George Crabbe: An English Life (Pimlico 2004), poems A Halfway House (Carcanet 2004).
Jeremy Reed, recent books Heartbreak Hotel (Orion), Boy Caesar (Peter Owen).
Anthony Rudolf was appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture in February 2004.
Shaun Traynor is a Northern Irish poet and children's novelist. He lives in Kilburn.
Alan Turnbull. Lives in North Yorkshire. One-man show in the Vladimir Nabokov Museum, St Petersburg, March 2005.
Clive Wilmer. Selected Poems (1995); The Falls (Worple 2000).