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Herbert Lomas discovers Alan Ross as a war poet, Peter Snow weighs up the life of C.S. Forester, and Judith Adams visits war theatre at the Edinburgh Festival. Marina Wallace surveys da Vinci's scientific sketches and Michael Eaude traces the roots of Miró's nature painting. Roger Caldwell on Shoshtakovich's compositions and David Andrew Platzer on the songs of Leonard Cohen. Fiction by Tiphanie Yanique and Deji Olukotun. FICTION 'Street Man', Tiphanie Yanique 'Indian Hunting on the Putumayo', Deji Olukotun POETRY 'In the Museum', Andrew Waterman '6.25', Alison Brackenbury 'March', Julian Farmer 'She Works in the Bookshop', Simon French 'Saint Patrick's Day Parade', David Gwilym Anthony 'Where Light Makes Free', John O'Donoghue 'No More Wars' & 'Apocalypse', Togarepi Piwayi 'Captured', 'Procession', The Soldiers' & 'Primetime', Matthew Sweeney 'The Damascus Road', Gary Allen 'Human Culture' & 'Nine Maxims', Changming Yuan 'The Blackbird', Daryl Tayar 'Bike Ride', Laurence Scott 'Inside a Cathedral', Robert Daseler FEATURES Marina Wallace on Leonardo da Vinci Michael Eaude on Joan Miró 'Remembering Samuel Beckett', Lucien Jenkins Herbert Lomas on Alan Ross Roger Caldwqell on Shoshtakovich David Andrew Platzer on Leonard Cohen Judith Adams at the Edinburgh Festival Peter Snow on C.S. Forester REVIEWS John Greening on Glyn Hughes, Sheenagh Pugh, John Weston, Julia Casterton & W.N. Herbert Tony Roberts on Stanley Moss, Jenny Joseph, Roger Moulson & Hugo Williams Robert Fraser on Kei Miller Peter Gilbert on Irene Némirovsky Lindsay Clarke on the Arvon Foundation Anthony Rudolf on Manguel's Borges Cover: Studies of the heart of an ox, Leonardo da Vinci (pen and ink on blue paper, c. 1513). Judith Adams writes for live performance and radio, and lectures in literature and theatre studies. In 2006 she has dramatised Almost Blue (Lucarelli) and Middlemarch Eliot for Radio 4 and The Girls of Slender Means for Stellar Quines Theatre Company, conceived the text for Ghost at the Edinburgh Festival, and is collaborating with Fifty-Nine Ltd over the publication of the text Sweet Fanny Adams in (Hyperspace) Eden on the Internet, funded by the Arts Councils of England and Scotland. http://www.sweetfannyadamsineden.org. David Gwilym Anthony, b north Wales, Hull Grammar School, St Catherine's College, Oxford. He lives in Stoke Poges in Buckinghamshire. Second book of poetry Talking to Lord Newborough (Alsop Review, USA, 2004). He works in financial services. Gary Allen, b Ballymena, Co Antrim. Three collections, Languages (Flambard/Black Mountain 2002), Exile (Black Mountain 2004), North of Nowhere (Lagan Press 2006). Cillin, a novel (Black Mountain 2006). Alison Brackenbury's latest collection is Bricks and Ballads (Carcanet 2004). http://www.alisonbrackenbury.co.uk. Roger Caldwell, First poetry collection This Being Eden (Peterloo). Also writes for the TLS, PNReview, Philosophy Now, Planet. Linday Clarke is the author of six novels and Stoker, a selection of verse (Phoenix Poetry Pamphlets 2006). Robert Daseler lives in Davis, California. Levering Avenue (University of Evansville) won the 1998 Richard Wilbur Award. Michael Eaude is the author of Barcelona, the City that Reinvented Itself (Five Leaves Press 2006), a historical, cultural and political guide to the city. Julian Farmer, 45, poet & translator, lives in Guildford. Translates from five languages. Robert Fraser's books include studies of Proust, James Fraser, African poetry, and Victorian quest romance. His biography of George Barker, The Chameleon Poet, was book of the year in The Spectator (2002). Simon French, b Sussex, lives in Derby. Published in Other Poetry, Brittle Star, and Poetry Nottingham. Peter Gilbert is the author of the comic novel Laughter in a Dark Wood. He teaches literature and creative writing at Syracuse University in London. John Greening's most recent collection is The Home Key, His study of W.B. Yeats appeared last year. Reviews regularly for the TLS. Dr Lucien Jenkins founded Early Music Today in 1993. Editor Rhinegold Dictionary of Music in Sound (2002). Editor Collected Poems of George Eliot (Skoob). Poetry Laying Out The Body (Seren). Herbert Lomas, born in the Pennines, served with the Indian Army, worked in Greece and Finland, and now writes freelance in Aldeburgh. He translates from Finnish and is a long-term critic for The London Magazine and Ambit. His eleventh volume, Nightlights, is with the publisher. John O'Donoghue lives in Brighton. His poetry, fiction and journalism have appeared in PNReview, Acumen, Ambit, Aesthetica, Orbis, Poetry Express, the TES, and The Observer. Deji Olukotun attended Yale College and Stanford law School. He lives and works in Cape Town as a refugee attorney. His story is from his forthcoming novel Everyone Comes from Belterra. Practises capoeira, the Brazilian martial art. Togarepi Piwayi lives in Zimbabwe. David Andrew Platzer is a freelance writer who divides his time between England and France. He also writes for Apollo and The British Art Journal. Tony Roberts teaches English. Educated in England and America. Two collections, Flowers of Hudson Bay (Peterloo), Sitters (Arc). Anthony Rudolf, Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2004), FRSL (2005). Founder of Menard Press. Laurence Scott, poet & lyricist living in London. Published in Acumen, Magma, Other Poetry. Teaches poetry at Hornsey Library in Crouch End. Peter Snow is at Templeton College, University of Oxford. Matthew Sweeney's new book of poems, Black Moon, is due from Cape in 2007. Daryl Tayar, b London 1966, has lived in Italy, Greece & Ethiopia. Read English & History at Cambridge. He taught English for 7 years and has written for dictionaries from both Oxford & Cambridge. Lives in Glasgow. Administrator at the Glasgow Steiner School; makes documentary films. Professor Marina Wallace, director with Martin Kemp of the Universal Leonardo Project. University of the Arts, London. http://www.universalleonardo.org. Andrew Waterman, b London, taught Literature at the University of Ulster, 1968-1997. Lives in Norwich. Collected Poems (Carcanet). The Captain's Swallow (Carcanet 2007). Tiphanie Yanique is from the Virgin Islands. She won the Boston Review fiction prize. Published in Sonora, Prism International, Callaloo, & Global City Review. Fulbright Scholar. Graduate of the University of Houston. Fiction editor of Gulf Coast Magazine. Changming Yuan grew up in an impoverished Chinese village. He came to Canada in 1989 and lives in Vancouver. He has published three books, has a PhD, and works as a college English tutor. His poetry has appeared in the literary press in America and the UK.
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