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Muriel Spark speaks to Robert Hosmer about her novels and her faith. Michael Mewshaw remembers Paul Bowles and Tony Roberts reviews Derek Walcott. Edward Lucie-Smith debates the nature of the avant-garde, Brian Sewell casts his eye over exhibition catalogues, and Leslie Schenk strolls through the Centre Pompidou. The engineering art of Conrad Shawcross. Fiction by E.A. Markham and Simon Howells. FICTION E.A. Markham, 'Irish Potatoes' Simon Howells, 'Fay' POETRY Derek Stanford, 'Third Floor East' Dannie Abse, 'The Jeweller' & 'Portrait of an Old Doctor' Grevel Lindop, 'Table Dance' Sean Elliott, 'Not Too Badly' Ronald Gaskell, 'Incident in a War' Jennie Feldman, 'Tracks' Andrew Elliott, 'Wedding' & 'The Moms' FEATURES Brian Sewell, 'Exhibition Catalogues' Muriel Spark in conversation with Robert Hosmer Jessica Chaney meets Conrad Shawcross Michael Mewshaw on Paul Bowles Three photographs of Paul Bowles by Ira Cohen Leslie Schenk, 'A Stroll through the Centre Pompidou' Edward Lucie-Smith, 'Decline & Fall of the Avant-Garde' REVIEWS Tony Roberts on Derek Walcott Oliver Dennis on Richard Burns, Andy Croft, & Jeremy Reed Grevel Lindop on Myra Schneider George Messo on Bejan Matur Shaun Traynor on Timothy O'Grady & Matthew Sweeney Jeremy Reed on Edmund White Catherine Baker on Olivia Manning Cover images: Space Trumpet and Loop System Quintet, Conrad Shawcross (2005, mixed media) Dannie Abse's New & Collected Poems was reviewed by Alan Brownjohn in our February/March 2004 issue. Catherine Baker lives and works in London. She is studying for a PhD in Croatian cultural history at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. Ira Cohen, b 1935, poet, photographer, film-maker. Lived for four years in Tangier from 1961, where he published Gnaoua, a magazine including work by Brion Gysin, William Burroughs & Harold Norse. Produced Jilala, trance music by a set of dervishes, recorded by Paul Bowles. In the 1970s, he published Paul Bowles, Charles Henry-Ford, Gregory Corso, & Angus Maclise under the Bardo Matrix imprint in Kathmandu. Represented in the UK by the October Gallery. Oliver Dennis lives in Melbourne. He reviews regularly for poetry publications in Australia and Britain. Andrew Elliott, b 1961, lives in Glasgow. Sean Elliott teaches at London South Bank University and works at the National Theatre. Poet & essayist. Jennie Feldman's first collection The Lost Notebook (due 2005), translation Treading Lightly: Selected Poems 1961-1975 by Jacques Réda (due 2005, both from Anvil). Ronald Gaskell lives in Cornwall. Poetry Rock with Water Poetry in London Review of Books etc. Robert Hosmer is Senior Lecturer in English Language & Literature at Smith College. Contemporary British Women Writers: Narrative Strategies (1993). Contributor to Dictionary of Literary Biography, Paris Review, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, etc. Simon Howells, b south Wales 1971. Lives in Cardiff, works for charity. Stories in New Welsh Review, Planet, Staple, Skald. Grevel Lindop helped Kathleen Raine at the Temenos Academy and the Temenos Academy Review. Website http://www.grevel.co.uk. Selected Poems (Carcanet). Biography The Opium-Eater: A Life of Thomas De Quincey. New poetry Playing With Fire out soon. Edward Lucie-Smith, poet, essayist, photographer, and historian of contemporary art. art tomorrow (Pierre Terrail, Paris, 2002). E.A. Markham's poetry collection A Rough Climate was short-listed for the 2002 T.S. Eliot Prize. 'Irish Potatoes' is from his short story collection Meet Me In Mozambique (Tindal Street Press, forthcoming). Professor of creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University. George Messo lives in Ankara. He is editor of the international journal Near East Review and teaches at Al Yamamah College, Riyadh. Second book of poems Entrances (Shearsman 2006). Translator to and from Turkish. Michael Mewshaw lives in Key West, Florida, & London. Ten novels, six non-fiction books. International literary work. 'Paul Bowles' is an excerpt from his memoir Do I Owe You Something? Jeremy Reed. Recent poetry Heartbreak Hotel (Orion), Duck And Sally Inside(Enitharmon). Tony Roberts, a teacher of English, was educated in England & America. Two poetry collections Flowers of the Hudson Bay (Peterloo), Sitters (Arc). Widely published in the literary press. Leslie Schenk has published over 100 pieces in the UK & USA after retiring from UN service around the world. Brian Sewell, the art historian, broadcaster, and columnist. Conrad Shawcross, b 1977, artist, lives and works in London. Muriel Spark, novelist. Derek Stanford, 86, poet & critic, lives in Hove. Shaun Traynor lives in Kilburn. Poetry The Hardening Ground and Images In Winter (both from Martin Brian & O'Keeffe). Novels for children (Methuen & Poolbeg Press). Reviews for TLS, THES, Irish Post, Irish World. Arts Council award 2005.
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