Poetry:

William Bedford, Two poems Maggie Butt, Two poems Holly Howitt, Two poems Angela Kirby, Two poems Bernard Saint, Chemin de Fer George Szirtes, In the Cinema Lobby Hugo Williams, Garments (after Cavafy)

Fiction:

Conor Patrick, ‘The Late Train to Santa Fe’

Features:

Peter Abbs: The Courage of the Conquistador: Sigmund Freud and the Mapping of the Unconscious Byron Beynon: The Welsh Poppy Flame of the Sun: A Tribute to Raymond Garlick Alan Blackwood: Delius: The Reluctant Englishman Idious Buguise: Afghanistan: Mara Yod Ast (I Remember) Richard Coombs: Invisible Influences: Eardley Knollys, Frank Coombs and the Storran Gallery in the 1930s Peter Davies: A Gatsby Master Class in London’s Theatres Tony Garner: Fear of the Self: Japanese Literature’s Tragic Hero Jeffrey Meyers: Meeting Robert Graves Monica Porter: Life after Hungary Allen Tice: The Legacy of Catullus: Did a Prayer to a Vestal Virgin ‘Save’ his Naughty Bits? Hans-C. von Sponeck: The United Nations and its Responsibility to Protect

Reviews:

Eamonn Gearon: The War Is Far from Finished: A Trio of Books about Iraq (Fatih Abdulsalam, ‘Setback of the Century’; Patrick Cockburn, ‘The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq’; Dexter Filkins, ‘The Forever War: Dispatches from the War on Terror’) Douglas Hurd: A Chinese Bail-Out (Tim Luard, ‘Escape from Hong Kong: Admiral Chan Chak’s Christmas Day Dash, 1941’) Terry Kelly: Sylvia, Shakespeare and Shamans (Keith Sagar [ed.], ‘Poet and Critic: The Letters of Ted Hughes and Keith Sagar’) Vesna Main: Between a Craft and a Calling (Gabriel Josipovici, ‘Infinity: The Story of a Moment’) John Man: A Tyrant Reborn (Dashi Namdakov at the Halcyon Gallery) Erik Martiny: Akseli Gallen-Kallela and the Kalevala (Gallen-Kallela at the Musée d’Orsay) Michael W. Thomas: Fog Returns to Channel (Ian Jack, ‘The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain’ and Peter Whittle, ‘Being British: What’s Wrong with It?’) Paul Williamson: The Consolations of Music: Cosí fan tutte(Opera Holland Park)