Published by Magdalen College 48pp
edited by Sinéad Garrigan, Kate Reeves
no preface

Selection of books received; notes on contributors.

Contents

Tom Paulin: Judge's report on the Second Richard Ellmann Prize;

Howard Wright: A Closer Look [reprinted as joint winner of the Second Richard Ellmann Prize];

Christine McNeill: Viennese Anatomy [reprinted as joint winner of the Second Richard Ellmann Prize];

Tom Paulin: The Promised Land: An Interview with Tom Paulin, by Tom Raphael;

Sean Lysaght: The Cube in the West;

Fiona Wilson: 108th Street; Pre-menstrual;

Jamie McKendrick: Datchie Sesames: a review of "The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Scottish Poetry", ed. Douglas Dunn; "Collected Poems", by Iain Crichton Smith; and "Sharawaggi" by Robert Crawford and W. N. Herbert.;

W. N. Herbert: Flesh locks; Repellant mask;

Paul Henry: Good Morning; The Desk;

Jane Griffiths: Review of "Singing Underwater" by Susan Wicks and "The Imbolic Bride" by John Sewell;

Paul Munden: Rain;

Thomas Kretz: Initials on Onyx;

Shaun Belcher: Following The Map;

John Greening: Geese; from Huntingdonshire Eclogues;

Stephen Romer: Honouring the Vertical Man: an Interview by Ian Sansom; Hibernation; Smolny;

Clare Griffiths: Other Statues;

Susan Lowell: The Task;

Chris Greenhalgh: Sea-Fret; Arcadia;