John Payne traces the web between Catalonia, the Franco-Spanish border, Antonio Machado, Walter Benjamin, & Lluís Companys. Peter Lee-Wright examines representations of the Roman Empire on television and film. Pat Williams sees her childhood vision of mathematics reflected in the painting of Magritte, Shirley Toulson surveys the art of Samuel Palmer, & Will Stone reviews the war etchings of Otto Dix. Fiction by Mike Carson and Sarah Passingham.

FICTION
'The Tongues of Men and of Angels', Mike Carson
'The Engineer's Daughters', Sarah Passingham

POETRY
'Poem XI', Catullus (trans. Julian Farmer)
'Adamo', Robert Wells
'Behold the Man' & 'Beginnings', Peter Abbs
'At Bettlesham Manor', Paul Groves
'Norfolk Island', Les Murray
'In The Raining Night', Aidan Andrew Dun
'Allegro con spirito', Who Are You?', & 'Daughter', Dinah Livingstone
'The Expedition', Todd Swift
'By Water's Edge', Keith McFarlane
'The Centipede', Glyn Hughes
'The Ballad of Ballantoul Burn', Helen Nelson
'Dear God', Duncan Forbes
'Ghostliness', Clive Wilmer

FEATURES
Jessica Chaney on Barbara Hepworth
'The Dubious Attractions of Rome', Peter Wright
'A Vision of Mathematics', Pat Williams
'Border Crossings', John Payne
Shirley Toulson on Samuel Palmer

REVIEWS
Tony Roberts on Robert Lowell's letters
Richard King on John Carey & Jeffrey Meyers
Robert Carver on Jon Wynne-Tyson
Will Stone on Otto Dix
Peter Gilbert on Eva Tucker
Peter Carpenter on Alan Brownjohn
Simon Darragh on Anna Adams
Oliver Dennis on George Szirtes, Alan Jenkins, & John Hartley-Williams

Cover: The Lonely Tower, watercolour (before 1881), Samuel Palmer

Peter Abbs is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Suxxes.
Peter Carpenter is co-director of Worple Press. Poetry from Shoestring (2006).
Mike Carson teaches high school English in Prince George, British Columbia.
Robert Carver studied poetry under Basil Bunting. Worked for BBC radio.
Catullus, c. 84- c. 54 BC, poet.
Simon Darragh divides his time between England and the Greek island Alonissos.
Oliver Dennis lives in South Yarra in Australia. Reviews for the literary press.
Aidan Andrew Dun, long poems Vale Royal and Universal (Goldmark 1995 & 2003).
Julian Farmer, 44, lives in Guildford. Translates from five languages.
Duncan Forbes, poet & painter. Voice Mail (Enitharmon 2002).
Peter Gilbert teaches Creative Writing at Syracuse University in London.
Paul Groves. Ménage à Trois (1995), Eros and Thanatos (1999), Wowsers (2002), from Seren.
Barbara Hepworth, 1903-1975, sculptor.
Glyn Hughes. Guardian Fiction Prize, short-listed for the Whitbread.
Richard King is a full-time writer living in Oxford and Fremantle, Australia.
Peter Lee-Wright, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College.
Dinah Livingstone. Time on Earth (Rockingham 1999). Editor of Sea of Faith.
Keith McFarlane lives in Amsterdam. Poems & translations in Acumen.
Les Murray, b 1938, Australian poet & essayist.
Helena Nelson runs HappenStance Press in Fife, which publishes poetry chapbooks.
Samuel Palmer, 1805-1881, painter & etcher.
Sarah Passingham won the South Eastern Writers award for short fiction.
John Payne. Catalonia: History and Culture (2004).
Tony Roberts. Flowers of the Hudson Bay (Peterloo) and Sitters (Arc).
Will Stone translated Gérard de Nerval's Les Chimères (Menard Press 1999). To the Silence: Selected Poems of George Trakl (Arc 2005).
Todd Swift, b Montréal, has lived in Budapest and Paris. He now lives in London. Three collections of poetry. Oxfam Poet-in-Residence 2004-5.
Shirley Toulson is the author of several books on rural Wales and southwest England. She has spent the last year and a half following the routes of Samuel Palmer's painting tours in these regions.
Robert Wells, b Oxford 1947, has published three collections of poems and two of verse translations: Virgil's Georgics and Theocritus's Idylls.
Pat Williams, b South Africa, came to Britain in 1960. A former journalist and broadcaster, she has written for theatre and television. She now works as a psychotherapist for the NHS and Social Services.
Clive Wilmer's sixth book of poetry, The Mystery of Things (Carcanet 2006). His long poem Stigmata (Worple Press 2005) first appeared in The London Magazine February/March 2005.