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Peter Ackroyd and Michael Moorcock capture the spirit of London, & Michael Eaude remembers Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, the chronicler of democratic Barcelona. Neil Powell reviews Alan Hollinghurst and Robert Carver attacks the caution of British publishing today. Journalist Peter Palmer's first piece of fiction on the Bosnian war. Fiction by David Martin & Sarah Salway. Poetry by Edward Storey, Paul Groves, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Bernard Saint, Christopher James, & Tim Digby-Bell. FICTION David Martin, 'This Is A Warning' Peter Palmer, 'A Bosnian Son' Sarah Salway, 'The End of the Ice Age' POETRY Derek Stanford, 'Garden' Robert Nye, 'The Ember' & 'At Chartreuse de la Verne' Paul Groves, 'A Change from Southsea' Edward Storey, 'Churchyard Picnic, Helpston' Stephen Newman, 'The Relic' Jesse Lee Kercheval, 'J'ai deux amours' John Mole, 'Winter Garden' Bernard Saint, 'Touch' Christopher James, 'Wordsworth on Wordsworth' Nick Blair, 'The Serbian Refugee' Rosalynde Price, 'Walking Away' Tim Digby-Bell, 'Scarborough Fair' Glyn Hughes, 'Dolphin and Mermaid' Jonathan Steffen, 'Pietà' FEATURES Edward Lucie-Smith, 'Sculpture in Shanghai' Gwen John & Augustus John at Tate Britain Robert Carver, 'What Can We Write?' Eduardo Chillida at Adam Gallery Peter Ackroyd interviewed by Adriana Neagu Jeffrey Joseph on Gavin Henderson John Deakin, 'Photograph of Stephen Spender' REVIEWS Francis King on Christopher Isherwood Andy Croft on Stephen Spender Michael Moorcock on Michael Collins Michael Eaude on Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Neil Powell on Alan Hollinghurst Glyn Hughes on Diane Middlebrook Paul Groves on John Greening & Matthew Hollis Olivier Burckhardt on Cesare Pavese Cover: Augustus John (1878-1961), 'Robin' & 'The Blue Pool' Peter Ackroyd, CBE, FRSL, was born in East Acton in London in 1949. By 24 he was literary editor of The Spectator. He was appointed chief book reviewer for The Times in 1986 and is the biographer of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Charles Dickens & William Blake. Hs most recent book is The Lambs of London (2004). Dr Adriana Neagu is Associate Professor of Anglo-American Literature at the University of Sibiu, Romania, Leverhulme Fellow at the University of East Anglia, and Research Fellow at the University of London. Nick Blair lives in London. Writes for Acumen, The Frogmore Papers, Envoi. Olivier Burckhardt, a Fellow of the Swiss Institute in Rome, is a Swiss-Australian poet & writer, working on translations of Italian poetry & fiction. Robert Carver's The Accursed Mountains: Journeys in Albania (Flamingo) was shortlisted for the 1999 Thomas Cook Travel Award. Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002), sculptor and graphic artist. Andy Croft, poet and critic. Writer-in-Residence at HMP Holme House, Stockton. He edited with Adrian Mitchell Red Sky at Night: British Socialist Poetry (Five Leaves 2003). John Deakin, 1912-1972, photographer. Definitive treatment of his work John Deakin: Photographs Selected & with an Essay by Robin Muir (Vendome 1996). Tim Digby-Bell, b 1981, lives in London. Reading English Literature at Edinburgh University. Michael Eaude, writer & translator, lives in Barcelona. Paul Groves, poet & critic, winner of the TLS Prize, published by Seren. Glyn Hughes, poet & novelist, Guardian Fiction Prize, David Higham Prize, shortlisted for the Whitbread. Christopher James, 29, MA in Creative Writing from University of East Anglia. Won Bridport 2002 and Ledbury 2003 poetry competitions. Augustus John, 1878-1961, painter. Gwen John, 1876-1939, painter. Jeffrey Joseph has contributed to most of the leading musical periodicals. Jesse Lee Kercheval, 'born in France and raised in Florida', works in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin. Francis King, 40 books, the latest The Nick of Time a novel, published in his 81st year. Former International President of PEN. Edward Lucie-Smith, historian of contemporary art. art tomorrow (Paris, 2002). David Martin, b 1974, lives in York. He 'has spent most of his life playing the guitar in a succession of spectacularly unsuccessful bands'. Newspaper journalist & rock critic. John Mole. Poet and jazz clarinettist. For the Moment (Peterloo 2000). The Wonder Dish for children (OUP 2002). New & Selected Poems forthcoming from Peterloo. Michael Moorcock, b 1939 London. Fiction includes Mother London, King of the City, & London Bone. Stephen Newman lectured in English Literature at Liverpool University for 18 years. Writes for the New Statesman and the TLS. Published two books on Dickens. Robert Nye, poet & novelist, The Rain and the Glass: 99 Poems, New & Selected (Cecil Woolf, 2004). Peter Palmer worked in former Yugoslavia for several years as a political analyst, writer, & media commentator. He has a D.Phil in Yugoslav History from Oxford University. 'A Bosnian Son' is his first work of fiction. Neil Powell, George Crabbe (Pimlico 2004), poems A Halfway House (Carcanet 2004). Rosalynde Price 'has just started out into the world of poetry'. She works as a Gestalt psychotherapist. Bernard Saint is a Jungian member of the Group Analytic Society treating patients under the National Drug Strategy. Published in British & American magazines since 1964. Sarah Salway, b Bedford 1960. Poet & short story writer. First novel Something Beginning With (Bloomsbury 2004). Derek Stanford, 85, poet & critic, lives in Hove. Jonathan Steffen taught at Heidelberg University. Poetry & prose in Signals and The London Magazine. Edward Storey lives in Wales. 8 collections of poetry, biography of John Clare, several volumes of prose.
I very much enjoyed Sarah Salway's story 'The End of the Ice Age' in the October / November issue. It felt like a daring breath of fresh air in the magazine - erotic and beautiful. I hope you will publish more of Ms Salway's work in future issues.
Alyss Dye
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