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Anthony Rudolf appreciates Carl Rakosi on his hundredth birthday and Jeremy Reed remembers Kathleen Raine. James Kirkup discusses the work of Murakoshi Kaseki and Geoffrey Godbert traces the birth of 'L'Après-midi d'un faune'. Michael Moorcock engages with Martin Gilbert's history of the Jewish people and Karen Steele reviews the prison memoir of left-wing Turkish journalist Asiye Guzel. Paul Farkash meets Elaine Feinstein. Fiction by Anita Jackson. Poetry by Carl Rakosi, Edward Lucie-Smith, Jeremy Hooker, Annemarie Austin, Myra Schneider, & Anne Stevenson. FICTION Anita Jackson, 'Master Jack' POETRY Six short poems by Carl Rakosi Anne Stevenson, 'As I Lay Sleeping' & 'A Riddle for Peter Scupham' Jeremy Hooker, 'An Unfinished Portrait' Anna Adams, 'Knocking On' Jeremy Reed, 'Elegy for Kathleen Raine' Annemarie Austin, 'Seeing the Light' Neil Powell, 'The Picture of the Mind' Edward Lucie-Smith, 'At Aya Sofia' & 'Jackson Pollock in Tehran' Myra Schneider, 'Poverty' Anne Ryland, 'Letting Her Go' Giles Goodland, 'Where The River Forks' Tamar Yoseloff, 'Mr Ditmar's River' Seven haiku by Murakoshi Kaseki (translated by James Kirkup and Tamaki Makoto) FEATURES Anthony Rudolf on Carl Rakosi's 100th birthday Geoffrey Godbert on Mallarmé, Debussy, and Nijinsky Edward Chaney on Vorticism Christopher Barker, 'In Memory of the Poets' & 'Geoffrey Hill' Michael Cullup, 'Meeting Robert Graves' Elaine Feinstein & Paul Farkash in conversation James Kirkup, 'Murakoshi Kaseki: Living with Leprosy' REVIEWS Alan Brownjohn on Dannie Abse & J.C. Hall Jeremy Reed on Marilyn Hacker Paul Groves on Hilary Llewellyn-Williams Zinovy Zinik on Steven G. Marks Michael Eaude on Richard Zimler Toby Lichtig on 'Going the Distance' Michael Moorcock on Martin Gilbert Glyn Hughes on D.H. Lawrence Karen Steele on Asiye Guzel Peter Carpenter on Geoffrey Hill Cover: Stanley Cursiter (1887-1976), 'Rain on Princes Street, Edinburgh' (1913, oil on canvas) Anna Adams, Flying Underwater (Peterloo, March 2004), two anthologies from Enitharmon. Annemarie Austin, fifth collection Back from the Moon (Bloodaxe 2003). Christopher Barker, freelance photographer, Portraits of Poets (Carcanet 1986). Alan Brownjohn's Collected Poems published by Enitharmon in 2004. Peter Carpenter co-directs the Worple Press. Featured in Iain Sinclair's London Orbital. Edward Chaney, Professor of Fine & Decorative Arts at Southampton Institute. Michael Cullup, Royal Navy, teacher, Road into Autumn (Fen Press 2002). Stanley Cursiter, 1887-1976, former Vorticist, Director of the Scottish National Gallery. Michael Eaude, writer & translator, lives in Barcelona. Elaine Feinstein, poet & novelist. Fourteenth novel Dark Inheritance and Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet (both 2001). Collected Poems & Translations (Carcanet 2002) PBS Special Commendation. Paul Farkash, b 1947 Beius in Romania, writing PhD on Feinstein's prose. Geoffrey Godbert, eight collections of poetry, co-editor of two Faber anthologies. Giles Goodland, Littoral (Oversteps 1996), A Spy in the House (Leviathan 2001), an editor of the OED. Paul Groves, poet & critic, winner of the TLS Prize, published by Seren. Jeremy Hooker, Adamah (Enitharmon), Welsh Journal (Seren). Writes on David Jones. Glyn Hughes, Guardian Fiction Prize, David Higham Prize, shortlisted for Whitbread. Anita Jackson, short stories in Stand, Midstream, The London Magazine. Murakoshi Kaseki, b 1923, Japanese poet, resident of a leprosarium since 1941. James Kirkup lives in Andorra. Percy Wyndham Lewis, artist, novelist, & critic, 1882-1957. Toby Lichtig reviews for the TLS. Edward Lucie-Smith, Changing Shape: New & Selected Poems (Carcanet). Michael Moorcock, b 1939 London. Fiction includes Mother London, King of the City, & London Bone. Neil Powell's George Crabbe: An English Life published by Pimlico in 2004. Carl Rakosi, poet, celebrated his 100th birthday in November 2003. Jeremy Reed, recent books Heartbreak Hotel (Orion), Boy Caesar (Peter Owen). Anthony Rudolf runs the Menard Press. Anne Ryland teaches adults. MA in Writing Poetry from Newcastle University. Myra Schneider, Insisting on Yellow (Enitharmon 2000), co-editor Making Worlds (Headland 2003). Karen Steele, BA (English Language & Literature), reviews for the TLS. Anne Stevenson, winner of the Northern Rock Writers' Award. Edward Wadsworth, artist, 1889-1949. Tamar Yoseloff, Sweetheart (Slow Dancer 1998) PBS Special Commendation, Barnard's Star (Enitharmon, 2004). Zinovy Zinik, novelist, broadcasts for the BBC World Service in Russian. Short stories Mind the Doors (Context Books New York 2002).
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