FICTION
Douglas Savage, 'A Flavour of Mortality'
Robert Minhinnick, 'A Glossary of Soup'
Jonathan Haylett, 'Bendera Beach'

POETRY
Chris Wallace-Crabbe, 'Grasses'
Christopher Middleton, 'Imagine Mallarmé'
Michael Foley, 'The Mentor Ode'
William Baer, 'Fog'
John Whitworth, 'Beetles'
Peter Thomas, 'The Artist's Daughter'
Neil Ferguson, 'The Rebuke' & 'The Adversary'
Sam Gardiner, 'The Gatehouse'
J.K. Murphy, 'All Rounder; Well Played'
Vanessa Austin Locke, 'Meeting Mary'
Clive Steele, 'Remembering Liz'
Lynne Wycherley, 'Fox on the Rim'

FEATURES
W.D. Jackson on Paula Rego
Herbert Lomas, 'Imagination All Compact'
Miria Swain, 'Venice Biennale 2005'
Michael Holroyd's David Cohen Prize speech

REVIEWS
Simon Darragh on modern Greek writing
Duncan Bush on Ian McEwan
Toby Lichtig on Brian Howell
Neil Powell on James Lees-Milne
Marius Kociejowski on Koktebel
Alan Brownjohn on Stephen Cooper's Larkin
E.M Knottenbelt on Robert Nye
Stephen Roiner on Joseph Roth

William Baer lives in Indiana. Founding editor of The Formalist.
Alan Brownjohn, The Men Around Her Bed (2004), Collected Poems (2006), both from Enitharmon.
Duncan Bush edits The Amsterdam Review.
Simon Darragh divides his time between England and the Greek island Alonnisos.
Neil Ferguson, three novels Putting Out (1988), Double Helix Fall (1990), English Weather (1996).
Michael Foley, four novels, three collections of poetry.
Sam Gardiner, Protestant Windows (Lagan 2000). Title poem won the National Poetry Competition.
Jonathan Haylett, b and worked in Africa & the Caribbean. He lives in the Scottish Highlands. Winner of the Royal Society of Literature V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize 2005.
Michael Holroyd has written biographies of Lytton Strachey, Augustus John, and Bernard Shaw, and two volumes of memoirs, Basil Street Blues and Mosaic. President of the Royal Society of Literature.
W.D. Jackson, b 1947, lives in Munich. Poetry & translation Then & Now – Words in the Dark (2002) and From Now to Then (2005) both from Menard Press.
E.M. Knottenbelt lives in the Netherlands. Reviews for Agenda.
Marius Kociejowski's The Street Philosopher & the Holy Fool was reviewed in TLM April-May 2005.
Toby Lichtig reviews for the TLS.
Vanessa Austin Locke, 21, undergraduate at Sussex University. First collection This Was the Start (PublishAmerica 2005, Maryland, Baltimore).
Herbert Lomas, poems The Vale of Todmorden (Arc 2003).
Robert Minhinnick won the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem in 1999 & 2003. 'A Glossary of Soup' is part of his collection of essays To Babel and Back (Seren 2005).
J.K. Murphy publishes poetry internationally. His poem is about the Australian cricketer Keith Miller.
Neil Powell, George Crabbe: An English Life (Pimlico 2004), A Halfway House (Carcanet 2004).
Paula Rego, b Portugal 1935, artist.
Stephen Romer, poems Tribute (1998). Anthology 20th Century French Poems (Faber 2002).
Douglas Savage, native of Canton, Ohio. Six novels and seven non-fiction books (studies of the American Civil War) since 1991. This is his first short story.
Clive Steele, b Crewe, Cheshire. 30th July 1947 - 3rd March 2005. One of the first poets published in Aquarius, which he helped co-edit. Chief sub-editor Islington Gazette. Buried in Soho Square.
Peter Thomas, b Devon 1947, lives in Dorset.
Chris Wallace-Crabbe, poems By and Large (Carcanet), co-edited Imagining Australia (Harvard). Professor Emeritus, The Australia Centre, University of Melbourne.
John Whitworth, eighth collection The Whitworth Gun (Peterloo 2002).
Lynne Wycherley grew up in the Fens. Second collection (Shoestring Press 2006).