Jim Greenhalf analyses the 'Four Quartets' of T.S. Eliot. Anthony Rudolf reflects on Judaism and the synagogue. Tom Earle introduces Eça de Queiroz and Paul Cartledge discusses Valerio Massimo Manfredi. Hilary Davies reviews Aidan Andrew Dun. Fiction by John McAllister, Daniel Jefreys, & Glen O'Keefe. Poetry by Anna Adams, Hugo Williams, & Marilyn Hacker.

FICTION
John McAllister, 'Madonna of the Fall'
Daniel Jeffreys, 'The Bamboo Forest'
Glen O'Keefe, 'The Irishman'

POETRY
William Oxley, 'Stationing the Cross'
Dinah Livingstone, 'Millfield Lane'
Clive Wilmer, 'In the Library'
Rod Jeffries, 'eyelids'
James Kirkup, 'Aubade'
Derek Stanford, 'Plea for a Prolongation of Days'
Anna Adams, 'The Song of the Beggar's Child'
Vernon Scammell, 'Getting There'
Hugo Williams, 'Black Samurai'
Marilyn Hacker, 'Farewell to the Finland Woman'

FEATURES
Four drawings by Francis West
Anthony Rudolf, 'Everything is prepared for the feast'
Gerald Mangan's drawing of A.C. Jacobs
Jim Greenhalf, 'In My End Is My Beginning'
Daniel Weissbort on contemporary Russian women's poetry

REVIEWS
Hilary Davies on Aidan Andrew Dun
Angela Tilby on Keith Ward
Adrian Buckner on Peter Abbs
Paul Cartledge on Valerio Massimo Manfredi
James W. Wood on Michael Crummey
Toby Lichtig on Hubert Selby Jr
Tom Earle on Eça de Queiroz

Cover: sculptures by Tim Pomeroy (b.1957), 'Arrowhead' & 'Millennium Head'

Anna Adams. New & Selected Poems (Enitharmon 1996); A Paper Ark (Peterloo 1996).
Adrian Buckner publishes poems and reviews in the literary press.
Paul Cartledge is Professor of Greek History at Clare College, Cambridge.
Hilary Davies is a veteran reviewer for the TLS. She has also reviewed for Poetry Review, The Tablet, The New York Times Review of Books, Agenda, and New Welsh Review. Her poetry is published by Enitharmon.
Tom Earle is King John II Professor of Portuguese Studies at Oxford University.
Jim Greenhalf works as a journalist in Bradford. He has published six books of poetry (three with Redbeck) and six books of prose (one with Redbeck).
Marilyn Hacker . Recent poetry: Squares and Courtyards (Norton 2001).
Daniel Jeffreys has published stories in Ambit and The London Magazine.
Rod Jeffries . Published poetry in The Glasgow Herald, Poetry Nottingham, and Helicon.
James Kirkup. Recent translations include two collections of tanka, In Thickets of Memory by Fumi Saito and Pages from the Season by Fumiko Miura. He lives in Andorra.
Toby Lichtig, 23 in 2002, has worked as an intern at the TLS. He reviews for the TLS and the Ham & High.
Dinah Livingstone lives in Camden Town, where she runs the Katabasis press. Time on Earth: Selected and New Poems (Rockingham 1999).
Gerald Mangan. Featured in The London Magazine August/September 2002. A.C.Jacobs' Collected Poems & Selected Translations was published by the Menard Press/Hearing Eye in 1996.
John McAllister lives in County Armagh. He has an MPhil from Trinity College, Dublin. He edited Breaking the Skin, an anthology of Northern Irish writing.
Glen O'Keefe lives in the Hauraki region of New Zealand. She is a science technician and a painter.
William Oxley. His Reclaiming the Lyre: New and Selected Poems was reviewed in The London Magazine June/July 2002.
Tim Pomeroy was born in Hamilton, Scotland, in 1957. One-man exhibitions, public commissions. Full details from The McHardy Sculpture Company in Shad Thames, London.
Anthony Rudolf is Lecturer in the Humanities at London Metropolitan University and runs the Menard Press.
Vernon Scannell. Recent work includes a novel, Feminine Endings, and poetry, Of Love and War.
Derek Stanford on himself: 'Poet and one-time critic; has written much on Beardsley and the 1890s.'
The Reverend Angela Tilby is Vice-Principal of Westcott House in Cambridge.
Francis West was born in Fraserburgh, Scotland, in 1936. Agent, Matthew Bateson, London. In 2002 he showed at the Original Gallery, Nice.
Daniel Weissbort edits Modern Poetry in Translation. Forthcoming from Anvil, Letters to Ted [Hughes], poetry; and From Russian With Love, a memoir of Joseph Brodsky.
Hugo Williams. His Collected Poems was published by Faber in 2002.
Clive Wilmer. Amongst his publications are Selected Poems (1995), translations of the Hungarian poets György Petri and Miklós Radnóti, and Poets Talking, a collection of BBC interviews with poets.
James W. Wood reviews for the TLS and Scotland on Sunday.