POETRY
Seven poems by Olive Debn
'Dowland Again', Michael Hamburger
'West Dean', Derek Stanford
'The Audience', Paul Groves
Two poems by Carole Satyamurti
'Ballad of the Myth-Kitty', Donald Goodbrand Saunders
Two poems by Wynn Wheldon
'Paula Stratton', Jeremy Reed
Two poems by Karen Eberhardt-Shelton
'Bulldozers', Aiden Andrew Dun
'Noah Drifting', Matt Barnard
'The Oxus the Indus & the Aral Sea', Robin Ford

FICTION
'Momma Girl', Samuel Todd
'Master Sunny', Henry Peplow
'Tinkerbell', Stephen Mark Cox

FEATURES
Susannah Woolmer on Kandinsky
Geoffrey Godbert on the poems of Lucio Piccolo
Robert Dando on the music of Gyorgy Ligeti
'The Sad Case of Anis Shivani', Eva Salzman
Jessica Chaney interviews Bill Viola
Helena Nelson on Eddie's Own Aquarius

REVIEWS
John Whitworth on Edward Lear
Duncan Bush on Pearson's Voltaire
Alan Wall on Bob Dylan
Niccolo Milanese on Boland, Strand, & Ford
William Oxley on Dannie Abse
Robert Carver on Glyn Hughes
Herbert Lomas on Collins, Gross, McLoughlin, O'Reilly, & Park
Jeremy Reed on Grevel Lindop

Christopher Barker. Freelance photographer living in north Norfolk. Portraits of Poets(Carcanet 1986).
Matt Barnard is married with two children. Poems in Acumen, Magma, Other Poetry, Outposts, Quattrocento, & Poetry News. Won the Poetry Society Hamish Canham Prize 2006.
Duncan Bush. Latest volume of poetry Midway (Seren). Co-editor of the Amsterdam Review.
Robert Carver, prize-winning writer of The Accursed Mountains: Journeys In Albania (Flambard), he reviews for the TLS & the Daily Mail.
Stephen Mark Cox, b Kensington 1964, lives in south London. His story ‘The Hoofer’s Tale’ appeared in The London Magazine December / January 2004.
Robert Dando was a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he organised a concert of music by Gyorgy Ligeti.
Olive Dehn, b Manchester 1914. She was deported from Germany in 1933 for writing verse for Punch which the authorities regarded as subversive. Children’s writer. First collection Out Of My Mind: Poems 1929-1995 (HappenStance Press 2006). www.happenstancepress.com 
Aidan Andrew Dun. Vale Royal (1995), Universal (2002), The Uninhabitable City (2005), all from Goldmark of Uppingham. 
Karen Eberhardt-Shelton lives in Drewsteignton near Exeter. Two Sisters (1993), The Message (2002). She was associate editor of the American poetry magazine Green Fuse for 5 years. Founded The Porlock Literary Festival in Somerset in 2003.
Robin Ford began writing poetry eight years ago in his fifties, after a long illness. Publishes in the little magazines. After the Wound, a pamphlet, & Never Quite Prepared For Light (Arrowhead Press). 
Geoffrey Godbert has published fourteen collections of poetry. Collected Poems due 2007. Two poetry anthologies for Faber & Faber.
Paul Groves, poet & critic, lives in Monmouth. 
Michael Hamburger, the poet & translator. Circling The Square (Anvil, September 2006).
Herbert Lomas’s tenth volume of poetry was The Vale of Todmorden (Arc Publications). His next, Night Lights, is with the publisher.
Niccoló Milanese divides his time between London, Cambridgeshire & Tuscany. Freelance writer and senior editor at The Liberal magazine.
Helena Nelson is a poet & editor of HappenStance Press. She lives in Fife.
Sharon Olds is Professor of Creative Writing at New York University. Her letter to Laura Bush at the White House is reproduced by permission.
William Oxley. Recent study of his work, The Romantic Imagination: A William Oxley Casebook (Poetry Salzburg 2005). Poetry, Namasti: Nepal Poems (Hearing Eye 2004) & London Visions (Bluechrome 2005).
Henry Peplow is married with two boys. He lives in Henley-on-Thames and works as a freelance film & video director. He won the 2006 £1000 Royal Society of Literature V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize for a short story.
Jeremy Reed, the poet, lives in Hampstead. 
Eva Salzman grew up in Brooklyn and on Long Island. In UK since 1985. Fellow of Ruskin College, Oxford, 1999-2002, and University of Warwick, 2004-5. She has worked in Springhill Prison in Buckinghamshire and Bromley-by-Bow Community Centre. Double Crossing: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe 2004).
Carole Satyamurti. Most recent book, Stitching the Dark: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe), reviewed by Anne Stevenson in our December / January 2006 issue. Donald Goodbrand Saunders, b 1949, lives in the Trossachs area of Stirlingshire. His publications include The Glasgow Diary, Findrinny, Sour Gas & Crude, 12 Poems frae Heine.
Derek Stanford is 88. He lives in Hove, has Parkinson’s Disease, and ‘feels his life is a blessing’. Author of many books, he says, ‘His Muse is the poet Julie Whitby.’ 
Samuel Todd is the nom de plume of Samuel Thorne Harper, who lives in Waverly, Alabama. 15 years as a journalist for US news print media. Relayed dispatches from Somalia, Kosovo, and Iraq. He was among the original group of embedded reporters who entered Iraq with the front-line troops. Part of the Knight Ridder combat team, his dispatches appeared in newspapers around the world. 
Alan Wall, novelist, essayist, poet. Books include Bless the Thief, The Lightning Cage, The School of Night and China. Jacob (poetry) shortlisted for the Hawthornden Prize.  Professor of Writing and Literature at the University of Chester. 
John Whitworth. The second revised edition of his Writing Poetry was published by A&C Black in 2006. Making Love to Marilyn Monroe (Faber 2006) is the paperback edition of The Faber Book of Blue Verse, which he edited.
Wynn Wheldon is a freelance writer living in London. His book The Father & Child Companion was published in 2005. Contributor to the Courtauld Institute’s online project ‘Four Paintings’.
Susannah Woolmer, b 1977, is assistant editor of Apollo: The International Magazine of Art & Antiques.