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Margaret Atwood talks to Bill Parry. James Liddy reflects on the Beat Generation and Michael Horovitz reviews Barry Miles' 1960s. David Andrew Platzer discusses Pasolini, Andry Croft reviews Tom Paulin, and Edward Lucie-Smith writes on the art of Oleg Kulik. George Szirtes' 'Black Sea Sonnets' (reprinted in his 2005 T.S. Eliot Prize-winning collection). Fiction by Ron Ramdin & Jenny Newman. Poetry by Derek Stanford, Dannie Abse, E.A. Markham, Marilyn Hacker, & Neil Curry. FICTION Ron Ramdin, 'Rama's Voyage' Jenny Newman, 'Pastor' POETRY Dannie Abse, 'Oil Painting of an Old Poet' & 'Ovid's Wish' E.A. Markham, 'Motherbirthdaypoem' Derek Stanford, 'Time is a Place' Michael Glover, 'Transformation' Neil Curry, 'Four Horses' Lynne Wycherley, 'Anne Boleyn' Lucien Jenkins, 'Little Girl Lost' Maggie Butt, 'Star-lit' John Weston, 'Snuff Bottles' Gary Allen, 'Reading the Flames' Marilyn Hacker, 'Letter to Alfred Corn' George Szirtes, 'Black Sea Sonnets' John Levett,' The Crack' FEATURES Margaret Atwood and Bill Parry in conversation David Andrew Plazter on Pier Paolo Pasolini Four etchings by Christopher P. Wood Eldward Lucie-Smith on Oleg Kulik James Liddy on Patrick Kavanagh & the Beat Generation REVIEWS Michael Horovitz on Barry Miles Angela Tilby on Benson Bobrick and the English Bible Peter Dale on Linda France, Jamie McKendrick, Andrew McNeillie, Mary O'Malley, & Julian Turner Duncan Bush on Billy Wilder Francis King on Edward Upward Daniel Jeffreys on Elio Vittorini & Akira Yoshimura Andy Croft on Tom Paulin Simon Darragh on Donald Davie Carol Diethe on Paul Kriwaczek and Zarathustra Geoffrey Tyack on David Webster and the Maya Sean Elliott on Robert Lowell Cover: Christopher P. Wood (b.1961), 'After the Feast' (2003, oil on canvas) Dannie Abse's New & Collected Poems (Hutchinson) and The Two Roads Taken: A Prose Miscellany (Enitharmon) were published in 2003. Gary Allen lives in Ballymena in Northern Ireland. Poetry Languages (Flambard / Black Mountain 2002). Novel Cillin (2004). Duncan Bush lives in Blaschette in Luxembourg. Poetry Midway (Seren). Writing a novel. Maggie Butt. Ex-journalist and BBC film-maker, she runs the Creative & Media Writing degree at Middlesex University. Poetry pamphlet Quintana Roo (Acumen 2003). Andy Croft edited with Adrian Mitchell Red Sky at Night: British Socialist Poetry (Five Leaves 2003). Neil Curry. Poetry published by Enitharmon. Writing a book on Christopher Smart. Peter Dale. Edge to Edge: New & Selected Poems (Anvil). Edits the poetry column in Oxford Today. Simon Darragh, poet & translator, lives on the island of Alonnisos in Greece. Carol Diethe taught the history of ideas at Middlesex University. The Life & Work of Germany's Founding Feminist Louise Otto-Peters (1819-1895) (Edwin Mellen 2002); Nietzsche's Sister and the Will to Power (University of Illinois 2003). Sean Elliott works at the National Theatre and lectures in Renaissance literature at Goldsmiths College. Michael Glover. National press journalist. Poetry Amidst all this Debris (Dagger Press). Marilyn Hacker won the US National Book Award. First Cities: Collected Early Poems (Norton 2003). Desesperanto: Poems 1999-2002 (Norton 2003) reviewed in The London Magazine December/January 2004. Michael Horovitz. Editor New Departures. Poetry Olympics impresario. Wordsounds & Sightlines: New & Selected Poems. Daniel Jeffreys has published short stories in Ambit and The London Magazine. 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). Francis King published his first three novels as an undergraduate at Oxford. He has produced over 40 books, of which the most recent, published in his 81st year, is a novel The Nick of Time. He is a former International President of PEN. John Levett won the National Poetry Competition. Their Perfect Lives shortlisted for the Whitbread. James Liddy, b 1934, Dublin, taught at University College Galway, San Francisco State University, and is now at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Collected Poems (Creighton University Press 1996). Edward Lucie-Smith, historian of contemporary art. art tomorrow (Pierre Terrail, Paris, 2002). E.A. Markham, b Montserrat, has lived in Britain since 1956. Professor of Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. Poetry A Rough Climate (Anvil 2002). Taking the Drawing-Room through Customs: Selected Stories (1972-2002) (Peepal Tree 2002). Jenny Newman edited The Faber Book of Seductions (1988). Co-editor Women Talk Sex: Autobiographical Writing on Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Identity (Scarlet Press 1992). Novels Going In (Penguin 1996), Life Class (Chatto & Windus 1999). Editor Contemporary British & Irish Novelists (Arnold 2004). Bill Parry's MA thesis on postcolonial Canadian literature drew on Margaret Atwood's fiction and essays. Freelance writer / contributor to The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, New Statesman. David Andrew Platzer is a writer living near Paris. He is working on a novel. Ron Ramdin, DLitt, University of London, is a biographer, historian, and novelist. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, he gave the Whitbread Cardiff Lecture in 1997. Appointed by Ken Livingstone to the Mayor's Commission on African and Asian Heritage (MCAAH), launched in October 2003. Derek Stanford, 84, poet & critic, lives in Hove. Recent poems in the TLS. George Szirtes lives in Wymondham, Norfolk. Recent poetry The Budapest File and An English Apocalypse (Bloodaxe 2000, 2001). Translations of Sándor Márai's novel Conversations in Bolzano and The Night of Akhenaton: Selected Poems by Ágnes Nemes Nagy (2004). Reverend Angela Tilby is Vice-Principal of Westcott House in Cambridge. Geoffrey Tyack directs the Stanford University Centre in Oxford. Oxford: an Architectural Guide (1998). Sir John Weston, Ambassador at the United Nations until July 1998, has lived and worked in Asia, Europe, and the United States. Poems published recently by The Guardian, The Spectator, the BBC. Christopher P. Wood, b Leeds 1961, artist. Lynne Wycherley. Poetry in the literary press. At the Edge of Light (Shoestring). Anthologised in Earth Songs, ed Peter Abbs (Green Books 2002); Making Worlds, ed Myra Schneider et al., (Headland 2003).
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