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