Poetry

Peter Abbs, Two poems Ghayth Armanazi, 'RSVP' Stephen Capus, Two translated poems by Sergey Esenin and Vladimir Mayakovsky John Wedgwood Clarke, Three poems Zoë Green, 'Figurehead' Nigel Holt, Two poems Steven O'Brien, Three poems from his latest collection William Palmer, Two poems Caroline Price, Two poems

Fiction

Jennifer Johnston, ‘Waiting’

Features

Bruce Anderson: 'A Short Walk Down Whitehall' Frank Armstrong: 'Holding Forth on Holding Back: How Food Has Been Shared Through the Ages' Roger Caldwell: 'Mahler and the Music of the Future' Roger Dobson: 'Phantasmagoria in Notting Hill: Arthur Machen’s Hill of Dreams' Mel Gooding: 'Tin Plate Workers and Pearly Queens: notes on the sketchbook drawings of Ceri Richards' Fred Johnston: 'Talking to Ourselves in the Bates Motel' Jeremy Lewis: 'Multiple Lives' Derwent May: 'The Rediscovery of George Calderon' Jeffrey Meyers: 'The Birth of Impressionism' Alan Morrison: 'Makars of the Smoke: Eliot’s Anglo-Scot Precursors: Harold Monro, John Davidson and James ‘BV’ Thomson' Emma Rutherford: 'The First Cut ... A Short History of the Silhouette Portrait' Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson: 'A Literary Cocktail: Remembering Alan Ross'

Reviews

Barbara Hardy, The Advantages of Repression Peter Robinson, Quiet Regrets Adam Smyth, Looking for Shakespeare