Richard Harries on the last years of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Brother Anthony of Taizé on the eminent Korean poet Ko Un. Daniel Weissbort remembers Joseph Brodsky and Anita Jackson evokes the dark history of modern Riga. Edward Chaney on the visionary art of Richard Eurich and Jeffrey Joseph on the vision of Classic FM. Fiction by Lyn Jolley and Cherise Saywell (winner of The Royal Society of Literature V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize 2003). Poetry by Lotte Kramer, Alan Brownjohn, Ruth Fainlight, Peter Dale, Jeremy Reed, & John Whitworth.

FICTION
Anita Jackson, 'City Break'
Lyn Jolley, 'The Revenge of Joey Fisher'
Cherise Saywell, 'Beef Queen'

POETRY
Lotte Kramer, 'No Return' & 'A Lettuce with Herbs'
Alan Brownjohn, 'Sonnet: Her Husband'
Peter Dale, 'Second Reading'
Ruth Fainlight, 'A Bowl of Apples'
Jeremy Reed, 'Late Roses'
John Whitworth, 'Careless Talk'

FEATURES
Daniel Weissbort on Joseph Brodsky
Six chromographs by Edward Lucie-Smith
Edward Chaney on Richard Eurich
Richard Harries, 'Away Grief's Gasping'
Photographs by John Minihan
Brother Anthony of Taizé on Ko Un

REVIEWS
Herbert Lomas on Christopher Middleton, Michael Hamburger, Jeremy Hooker, Peter Dale, & Michael Hulse
Roger Caldwell on George Pattison and Søren Kierkegaard
Jeffrey Joseph on Classic FM Radio
John Greening on Elaine Feinstein


Cover: Richard Eurich (1903-1992), 'The Last of the Guy' (1983, oil on board)

Brother Anthony of Taizé, aka An Sonjae, is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Sogang University, Seoul. He is a naturalised Korean.
Alan Brownjohn's Collected Poems published in 2004 by Enitharmon.
Roger Caldwell writes for the TLS, Philosophy Now, PNReview, Acumen.
Edward Chaney is Professor of Fine & Decorative Arts at the Southampton Institute. His books include A Traveller's Companion to Florence.
Peter Dale. Translator of Villon (Penguin) and The Divine Comedy (Anvil). Edge to Edge: New & Selected Poems (Anvil). He edits the poetry column in Oxford Today.
Ruth Fainlight's most recent collection is Burning Wire (Bloodaxe).
John Greening. Nine collections of poetry. He reviews for Poetry Review and the TLS.
Richard Harries is the Bishop of Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. 'Away Grief's Gasping' first appeared in Questioning Belief (SPCK 1995).
Anita Jackson's stories have appeared in Stand, Midstream, and The London Magazine.
Lyn Jolley is a 55 year old mother of two and a primary school teacher.
Jeffrey Joseph has contributed to most of the leading musical periodicals. He teaches at Trinity College of Music and New York State University.
Lotte Kramer. Child refugee in the Second World War. Selected & New Poems (1997), Phantom Lane (2000), both from Rockingham.
Herbert Lomas is a poet and a veteran reviewer for The London Magazine.
Edward Lucie-Smith is a historian of contemporary art, a poet, and a photographer. He has held solo exhibitions in Brussels, Rome, Tel-Aviv, Barcelona, St Petersburg, and Kuala Lumpur. Statues, Albemarle Gallery, 2003.
John Minihan, the 'painless photographer' (William Burroughs).
Jeremy Reed. Selected Poems (Penguin). Pop Stars and Sweet Sister Lyric (Enitharmon).
Translator of Montale, Novalis, Cocteau. Epic poem Heartbreak Hotel (Orion 2002).
Cherise Saywell is the winner of The Royal Society of Literature V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize for a short story. She was born in New South Wales, Australia, in 1969. She has lived in Scotland for seven years. This is her first publication.
Daniel Weissbort edits Modern Poetry in Translation. His memoir of Joseph Brodsky From Russian With Love is forthcoming from Anvil. Letters to Ted (Anvil 2002).
John Whitworth, poet and reviewer. Numerous collections. The Whitworth Gun (Peterloo 2002).