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Title: The London Magazine - December / January 2007
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The London Magazine - December / January 2007 by Barker, Sebastian (ed.) by Barker, Sebastian (ed.)

The London Magazine - December / January 2007 by Barker, Sebastian (ed.)

FICTION
'A Helmsman’s Journal', Nikos Kavvadias
'Aurole', Edna Faye Kiel
'The Sutton Hoo Poet', Dexter Petley

POETRY
'Echoes', Michael Hamburger
'Dead Letter', Anna Adams
'The Difference between Poetry and Everything Else', 'Grassington's Confession', 'Reconciling Jerusalem', 'Death, Daniel Barenboim and Me', & 'Three Fires', Jim Greenhalf
'Witnessing' & 'Bonnard's Gift', Peter Abbs
'Cafe for Dogs in the City of Bonn', Andrzej Bursa, trans. Kevin Christianson and Halina Ablamowicz
'This Week in History', A.C. Bevan
'A Golden Bowl', Mir Mahfuz Ali
'The Silence of Xylem', David Morphet
'Upon a Time', Helena Nelson
'Still Believing', Jane Clark
'White Dancers', Lynne Wycherley
'Holy Mountain', Lucy Calcott
'From Glastonbury', Shaun Traynor
'Le Murate', Helen Smith
'An Errant Daughter', Lynne Munn
'The Reading Room', Caroline Berrier
'Annunciation', Keith Bosley
'Young Man', Stephen Romer
'After Hours, Narin', Malcolm Mac Clancy
'Mostar', Norman Buller
'Great Western', Michael Read

FEATURES
'Constable’s Triumph', Richard Cork
'Samuel Johnson’s Writer’s Block', Jeffrey Meyers
'The Jackie I Knew', Sylvia Plapinger
'Reading Aloud', Pam Thomas
'Musée Quai Branly', David Platzer
'Adventurers in Living Fact', Jeremy Hooker

REVIEWS
Jacqueline Karp on Jonathan Littell
John Payne on Michael Eaude
Tony Roberts on Donald Justice
Sean Elliott on Roy Fisher
Nigel McLoughlin on Selima Hill, Judi Benson, Penelope Shuttle, Ruth Fainlight, & Duncan Forbes
'Auschwitz for Everyman', Will Stone

Peter Abbs. His most recent books include Viva la Vida (Salt) and Against the Grain (Routledge Falmer). www.peterabbs.co.uk.
Halina Ablamowicz is Professor of Speech Communications at Tennessee Tech University (USA). Working on translations of poems concerning Stalin’s forced deportation of Poles to the Siberian gulags in World War Two.
Anna Adams. Self-educated at Art School during World War Two. Selected & Recent Poems (Enitharmon 1996), Flying Underwater (Peterloo 2004).
Mir Mahfuz Ali, b Dhaka, Bangladesh. Studied at City Literary Institute, London, and Essex University. Dancer, actor, male model, and tandoori chef. Performances at the Royal Opera House and elsewhere. First collection of poetry 2007.
Caroline Berrier lives in London. Poetry in Poetry Review and The North.
A.C. Bevan. Poems in the literary press in Europe & America. First pamphlet by Arc in 2001. First collection by Salmon in 2007.
Keith Bosley, poet & translator, including Mallarmé: the Poems (Penguin).
Norman Buller. Publishes in the literary press. Former university careers advisor.
Andrzej Bursa, 1932-1957, b Kraków in Poland. Read Slavonic studies at Jagiellonian University, founded in 1364. He worked as a journalist for Polish Daily News. Published 37 poems and a novel. Died of congenital heart failure. Three editions of his work have appeared, Works in Verse & Prose (1969), Poems (1993), and Executioner without a Mask (Wydawnictwo Ignis Kraków).
Lucy Calcott, M.A., poems in Scintilla, Temenos Academy Review, Resurgence.
Jane Clark, b Londonderry 1959, lives in Camden, freelance screenwriter. Poems in Orbis, Smiths Knoll, Poetry Monthly.
Richard Cork. Four of his critical writings on modern art are published by Yale, and his latest book is Michael Craig-Martin (Thames & Hudson 2006).
Kevin Christianson is Professor of English at Tennessee Tech University (USA) teaching literature. Poems and translations from Polish in New Letters, The Formalist, Metamorphosis, The Iconoclast, Home Planet News, & Poetry International.
John Constable, 1776-1837, painter.
Simon Darragh, poet & translator, is a regular contributor to The London Magazine.
Sean Elliott teaches at London South Bank University and the National Theatre.
Jim Greenhalf, poet & writer. Journalist in Bradford. Nine books of poetry.
Michael Hamburger, the poet & translator. His latest book of poems is Circling the Square (Anvil, January 2007).
Jeremy Hooker. The Cut of the Light: Poems 1965-2005 (Enitharmon 2006).
Jacqueline Karp trains teachers at Poitiers University. Poetry Sudden Maraschinos (Redbeck Press). Published in Nashwaak Review, Canada, and New Standpoints, France.
Nikos Kavvadias, the Greek poet & writer, 1910-1975. His piece was published in Greek in a Piraeus literary journal in 1931 when he was 21. It prefigures, especially in the theme of the ideal woman turned whore, much of his later poetry and prose.
Edna Faye Kiel, b Washington State, USA, lives in County Clare.
Malcolm Mac Clancy, b County Clare. Recent poetry in Agenda and Garm Lu (Canada). Works for homeless and addiction services in Dublin.
Nigel McLoughlin. Poetry At The Waters’ Clearing (Flambard/Black Mountain 2001), Songs For No Voices (Lagan 2004), Blood (bluechrome 2005).
Jeffrey Meyers, FRSL, has published twenty biographies, including Impressionist Quartet (2005) and Modigliani: A Life (2006). He is writing a life of Samuel Johnson.
David Morphet co-edited the literary magazine Delta at Cambridge. Worked in the Diplomatic Service. Four volumes of verse.
Lynne Munn, b Liverpool 1924. Her home was destroyed in the Blitz on Liverpool in 1941. Served for 3 years as a woman gunner in Ack-Ack.
Helena Nelson is a poet who runs HappenStance Press in Fife.
John Payne is the author of Catalonia: History and Culture (2004).
Dexter Petley has published 3 novels. Little Nineveh (Polygon 1995), Joyride (4th Estate 1999) & White Lies (4th Estate 2003). He lives in a caravan in France.
Sylvia Plapinger writes on the arts, children, and legal issues. Taught English at New York University. She lives in Greenwich Village.
David Andrew Platzer contributes to Apollo and The London Magazine.
Michael Read, b London 1950. Lecturer in Further Education.
Tony Roberts, assistant head teacher at a Bolton comprehensive school. Two collections of poems, Flowers of the Hudson Bay (Peterloo) and Sitters (Arc).
Stephen Romer lives in the Loire Valley. Yellow Studio will be published shortly. Tribut, a Selected Poems in French translation (Editions Le Temps qu’il fait March 2007).
Helen Smith is a lecturer in English Renaissance Literature at the University of York. ‘Le Murate’ is her first published poem.
Will Stone, b 1966. Translations: Les Chimères by Gérard de Nerval (Menard 1999), To The Silenced – Selected Poems of Georg Trakl (Arc 2005). Writes for the TLS, The Guardian, Poetry Review, and The London Magazine.
Pam Thomas is retired and lives in Oxford. She is writing her memoirs, God and the Serpent in the Garden of Eden.
Shaun Traynor is a Northern Irish poet and children’s novelist. He wrote ‘From Glastonbury’ when Writer-in-Residence with the Wiltshire Libraries & Museum Service. He lives in London.
Lynne Wycherley. Second collection North Flight (Shoestring). Work in the anthology Into the Further Reaches (PSAvalon 2007).
 
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