FICTION
A Bike Ride – John O’Donoghue
A Good Place to Get – John Bolland
Only in London – Sabyn Javeri-Jillani
The White Horse – Patrick Roscoe

POETRY
The Guitar Lesson, & Translation of an Unwritten Poem from the Greek Anthology – Robert Nye
Re-Reading Sassoon – Vernon Scannell
Books – Lotte Kramer
Lift Home – Fred Beake
The Lost Manuscript – Dmitro Kremin
The Sea Captain – Jan FitzGerald
Poetry – John Powell Ward
Within a Sphere – Timothy Robey
In the Footsteps of St Francis of Paolo – John Miles
Cello – Rowan Middleton
On the French Riviera – Ian Pindar
New Year Letter – R.N. Allan
Once I Never Thought – Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
The God of My Childhood – Bernado Pinto de Almeida, trans. Ana Isabel Hudson
The Park – Jane Clark
Spirit Bird Prays for Rain – Susan Bullock
At the Sea Wall, Cadiz – Mavis Gregson
Women Are Made In Japan – Serge Gainsbourg, trans. Bernard Saint
Serengeti – John Weston

FEATURES
Dutch Portraits – Paul Taylor
Art Criticism – Edward Lucie-Smith
Poetry Environment Catastrophe – David Gascoyne
Vanity of Vanities – Robert Carver
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition – Susannah Woolmer

REVIEWS
P.J. Kavanagh on Parsons Bookshop, Dublin
Paul Groves on Michael Schmidt, Edwin Morgan, & Helen Dunmore
Sean Elliott on Maggie Butt, Jane Hirshfield, Katherine Gallagher, & Susan Wicks
Robert Carver on Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Rima Devereaux on Ben Okri

R.N. Allan is a retired lecturer in French. His poems have appeared in the London Review of Books, The Spectator, Poetry Review, Encounter, & co.
Bernado Pinto de Almeida, poet and art critic, b 1954, lives in Oporto, Portugal. He is Professor at the Arts Faculty in the University of Porto. Eight books of poetry since 1981. Ana Isabel Hudson, b 1954 in Portugal, has lived in London since 1984. Translator and teacher of French and Portuguese.
Fred Beake, b 1948 in Cheshire. Poet, translator, critic. New & Selected Poems (Shearsman 2006).
John Bolland, 45, graduate of Glasgow University, lives in Aberdeenshire. He writes novels, short fiction, and poetry. ‘A Good Place to Get’, his story in this issue, was runner-up in the 2007 Royal Society of Literature V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize. http://www.johnbolland.net
Susan Bullock lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Selected Poems (Ars Interpres, Stockholm, 2006). Poems in Stand, Persephone, Harvard Review.
Robert Carver, the prize-winning travel writer and TLS reviewer.
Jane Clark, b Londonderry, lives in Camden. Poems in The London Magazine, Smiths Knoll, Orbis, and Poetry Monthly.
Rima Devereaux lives in London and works as a project editor and freelance writer.
Sean Elliott, poet and essayist, works at the National Theatre and Birkbeck College.
Jan FitzGerald, b 1950, lives in Tauranga, New Zealand. First published in the New Zealand and Australian literary journals in the 1970s. Flying Against the Arrow (2005).
David Gascoyne, the poet, 1916-2001. Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres 1996.
Mavis Gregson lives in Maidenhead. A pamphlet small bronze (2005).
Paul Groves. Eric Gregory Award 1976. Academe (1988), Ménage à Trois (1995), Eros and Thanatos (1999), Wowsers (2002), all from Seren. Winner of the 2007 TLS/Foyles poetry competition.
Sabyn Javeri-Jillani, b 1977 in Pakistan, has lived in England and Alexandria, Virginia. She currently lives in south London. Her fiction has appeared in American literary journals, Ezines, and anthologies from Oxford University Press, Women Unlimited, and HarperCollins. She is doing a Masters degree at Oxford University.
P.J. Kavanagh’s most recent book of poems is Something About (Carcanet 2004). Collected Poems (1992). His memoir, The Perfect Stranger, first published in 1966, is still in print.
Lotte Kramer came to England with a children’s transport in 1939. Ten collections of poetry, the latest Black Over Red (Rockingham 2005).
Dmitro Kremin. He won the T.G. Shevchenko prize in 1999 for The Scythian Breastplate (1997). His poem, ‘The Lost Manuscript’, is taken from this book, which is translated from the Ukrainian by Svetlana Ischenko and Russell Thornton. Most recent book, The Hunt for the Wild Boar (2006). Svetlana Ischenko was born in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, and has lived in Canada since 2001. Russell Thornton lives in Vancouver. House Built of Rain (2003) and The Human Shore (2006), both from Harbour.
Edward Lucie-Smith, the writer on modern and contemporary art.
Rowan Middleton lives in Herefordshire. Studying Creative Writing and English Literature at the University of Gloucestershire.
John Miles, b Britain, lives in Sydney, Australia. Poems in TLS, Ambit, The Paris Review, Southerly. A Writing Unexpected (Ginninderra Press, Canberra).
Robert Nye, FRSL, has won the Hawthornden Prize, the Gregory Award for poetry, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the Cholmondeley Award for poetry 2007. The Rain and the Glass: 99 Poems, New & Selected (Greenwich Exchange 2005).
Ian Pindar, poems in New Poetries III (2002), author of Joyce (2004), editor of The Folio Book of Historic Speeches (2007).
John O’Donoghue’s work has appeared in Aesthetica, Acumen, Ambit, Orbis, PN Review and The Wolf. He is a Director of Waterloo Press and was Chair of Survivors’ Poetry from 2000 to 2005.
Timothy Robey is a retired chemistry teacher. Poems in Contemporary Review and Haiku Quarterly. Contributor to Pass, the magazine of the Mastermind Club.
Patrick Roscoe, author of six works of fiction, including The Lost Oasis (McClelland & Stewart 1995) and God’s Peculiar Care (Viking Penguin 1991). http://www.patrickroscoe.com
Bernard Saint has contributed to poetry magazines in England and USA since 1964. He has offered versions from the French of several Serge Gainsbourg songs: translated in this issue, ‘Les Femmes C’est Du Chinois’.
Vernon Scannell, b 1922, served in the Gordon Highlanders during World War Two in the Middle East and Normandy. Author of poetry, novels, and autobiography.
Dr Roger Scott. Visiting Research Fellow at Northumbria University. He edited David Gascoyne’s Selected Prose 1934-1996, Poems: 1950, and April: a novella, for Enitharmon. This press publishes his edition of Gascoyne’s translations of Pierre Jean Jouve, Despair Has Wings, in September 2007.
Paul Taylor works in the Photographic Collection at the Warburg Institute, University of London. He writes on Dutch and Italian art.
John Powell Ward, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Wales, Swansea. Seven collections of poetry, including Selected and New Poems (Seren 2004). Edited Poetry Wales 1975-1980.
Sir John Weston, formerly Great Britain’s ambassador to the UN, began writing poetry in 2002. First collection Chasing the Hoopoe (Peterloo 2005). Chairman of The Poetry School.
Wallis Wilde-Menozzi is an American poet who has lived in Parma, Italy, for 25 years. Her work has appeared in Granta, Kenyon Review, Best Spiritual Writing. http://www.walliswilde-menozzi.com
Susannah Woolmer, b 1977, former assistant editor of Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors.