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John Haffenden makes a plea for a full edition of T.S. Eliot's light verse and Adam E. Mendelsohn assesses the art market in Manhattan. Doreen King discusses the Japanese verse of the Kokin and Helen Langdon examines the miniatures of Adam Elsheimer. Pat Williams remembers her part in creating a musical which challenged apartheid and Brian Sewell reflects on death. David Andrew Platzer and Joy Hendry both review Maggie Fergusson's life of George Mackay Brown. Kim Thomas and Robert Fraser review new novels by Howard Jacobson and Hisham Matar. Fiction by Desmond Hogan, JJ Taylor and Wallis Eates. FICTION 'Little Friends', Desmond Hogan 'Regal Son', JJ Taylor 'Little Wolf', Wallis Eates POETRY 'Age Old', R.L. Hughes 'The Deluge', Támás Emöd, translated by Thomas Ország-Land 'Café des Artistes', 'At Luynes' & 'An Evening Stroll', John Hartley Williams 'The Source' & 'A Far-off Country', Clive Wilmer 'Runes', Robert Nye 'Convolvulus', John Levett 'The Sniper's Victim' & 'Winter Light', Will Stone 'Turquoise' & 'Peace', Sarah Wardle 'Bookstore', William Baer 'Night' & 'So Tired', Peter Oswald 'News', Nigel mcLoughlin 'A Day in April', Kenneth Steven FEATURES 'Dark Star', Adam E. Mendelsohn 'The Kokin in the West', Doreen King 'All of Possum's Poems, Please', John Haffenden 'Death', Brian Sewell 'Our Knot of Time & Music', Pat Williams 'Adam Elsheimer', Helen Langdon REVIEWS Sean Elliott on David Long David Andrew Platzer & Joy Hendry on Maggie Fergusson's life of George Mackay Brown Roger Caldwell on Stephen Walsh's biography of Stravinsky Kim Thomas on Howard Jacobson Robert Fraser on Hisham Matar Eva Tucker on Peter Vansittart William Oxley on Ruth Silcock, Julian Turner, Patrick Lane & Jim Burns Cover: Adam Elsheimer, The Flight into Egypt (copper) William Baer is the author of ten books, including 'Borges' and Other Sonnets, Luis de Camões: Selected Sonnets, and Writing Metrical Poetry. Roger Caldwell. First poetry collection This Being Eden (Peterloo). Also writes for the TLS, PNReview, Philosophy Now, Planet. Wallis Eates is Artist-in-Residence at Heath Mount School in Hertfordshire. 'Little Wolf' is her first published work. Sean Elliott teaches at London South Bank University and also works at the National Theatre. Published in the literary press. Adam Elsheimer, b Frankfurt, 1578-1610. Támás Emöd, 1888-1938, Jewish-Hungarian poet, playwright and theatre director. Robert Fraser's books include studies of Proust, Sir James Frazer, African poetry, and Victorian quest romance. His biography of George Barker, The Chameleon Poet, was book of the year in The Spectator (2002). John Haffenden, FRSL, is Research Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. His recent publications include a two-volume biography of William Empson, Among the Mandarins (2005) and Against the Christians (2006); and an edition of Empson's Complete Poems. Joy Hendry, b Perth 1953, educated at Edinburgh University. Editor of Chapman, 'Scotland's quality literary magazine', since 1971, now in its 108th issue. Honorary Doctorate from Edinburgh University. Desmond Hogan is the Irish writer. He was a judge in the 2005 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize worth €50,000. R.L. Hughes lives in Port-Vendres in France. His poems have been published in magazines in the UK and USA. Doreen King is General Secretary of the British Haiku Society. She won the Presence Award for haiku in 2005. Haiku collections The Katsura Tree (Iron Press 2004). Chinese Whispers (Tribe Press USA 2004), Caraway (Ram Publications 2005). Helen Langdon, Research Fellow at the British School in Rome, is a specialist in 17th century Italian art; her books include Claude Lorrain (1989) and Caravaggio: a Life (1998). John Levett is a full-time writer living in Norfolk. 4 collections of poems, plus A Clearer Light, poems with a wood engraving by Barry Woodcock. 130 copies signed by author and artist (Gruffyground Press 2004). Nigel McLoughlin, BA (London), PhD (Lancaster). Field Chair, Creative Writing, University of Gloucestershire. Poetry At the Waters' Clearing (Flambard/Black Mountain 2001), Songs For No Voices (Lagan 2004), Blood (bluechrome 2005). Adam E. Mendelsohn, b 1974. Art critic, lives in Manhattan. Publishes in Frieze, ArtForum, Art Monthly, Art Review, Time Out New York. Robert Nye, FRSL, has won the Hawthornden Prize, the Gregory Award for poetry, and the Guardian Fiction Prize. Civil List pension in 2000 for services to literature. His last novel The Late Mr Shakespeare is being adapted for the stage. The Rain and the Glass: 99 Poems, New and Selected (Greenwich Exchange) was reviewed in The London Magazine June / July 2005. Thomas Ország-Land is a poet and foreign correspondent based in Budapest. His poetry has been published by The Spectator and The New York Times, his translations by The London Magazine and The Formalist, and his book reviews by the TLS and Poetry Review. Peter Oswald. Verse playwright. Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards (National 1996). Writer-in-Residence at Shakespeare's Globe 1998-2005. William Oxley. Recent study of his work, The Romantic Imagination: A William Oxley Casebook (Poetry Salzburg 2005). Poetry, Namasti: Nepal Poems (Hearing Eye 2004) & London Visions (bluechrome 2005). David Andrew Platzer is a freelance writer living near Paris. He also contributes to Apollo and British Art Journal. Brian Sewell, the art historian, broadcaster, and columnist. Kenneth Steven is a poet, translator, broadcaster, and children's author. His selected poems Atlantic is due from Peterloo in 2007. Will Stone, b 1966. Translations of poetry include Les Chimères by Gérard de Nerval (Menard 1999) and To the Silenced: Selected Poems of Georg Trakl (Arc 2005). Writes for the TLS, The Guardian, Poetry Review, and The London Magazine. JJ Taylor, 64, Derryman married with two children. Worked in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe as a telecom engineer. Began to write short stories in his early 60s. Kim Thomas, PhD, is a freelance journalist: The Financial Times, The Guardian. Specialises in education, business, and technology. Eva Tucker's most recent novel is Berlin Mosaic (Starhaven 2005). Sarah Wardle lives in London and has had two books of poetry published, Fields Away (Bloodaxe 2003), Score! (Bloodaxe 2005). John Hartley Williams has published nine collections of poetry, two of which have been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. He has published translations from German, French, Serbo-Croatian, as well as the Romanian poet Marin Sorescu, Censored Poems (Bloodaxe 2001). Prose memoir Ignoble Sentiments (Arc 1995), prose work Mystery in Spiderville (Vintage 2003). Pat Williams is a psychotherapist in private practice. She also teaches the therapeutic power od metaphor and story to members of the NHS and the Social Services. Her account of 'A Vision of mathematics' was very well received in The London Magazine October / November 2005. Clive Wilmer was interviewed by Peter Campion in The London Magazine April / May 2006.
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