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Title: The London Magazine - October / November 2007
Author: Barker, Sebastian
Publisher: The London Magazine
Format: Magazine
ISBN: 0024-6085 Pages: 128
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The London Magazine - October / November 2007 by Barker, Sebastian by Barker, Sebastian

The London Magazine - October / November 2007 by Barker, Sebastian

‘Flint’, a story by Deborah Kaple
Poems by Nanos Valaoritis, Myra Schneider, John Whitworth, Jim Greenhalf, Marina Tsvetaeva, Alexis Lykiard, Alan Morrison
Kate Edwards on ‘Art, Scholasticism, and Sacrament—David Jones and Jacques Maritain’
‘Slavery and the Civil War in the USA’, Brian Burden
Walter Sickert’s ‘Camden Town Nudes’, Simon Martin
‘Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now’, Annie Blinkhorn
Tony Roberts reviews Anthony Thwaite & Gillian Allnutt
Susan Sontag on Joseph Brodsky, Interviewed by Valentina Polukhina

Fiction
‘Flint’, Deborah Kaple
‘His Last Fire’, Alix Nathan

Poetry
‘Baltic Ant’, Martin R.B. Cook
‘Arran’, Myra Schneider
‘Who Is Me?’ Nanos Valaoritis
‘You there walking, trans Cooke’, Marina Tsvetaeva
‘Marina Tsvetaeva 1892-1941’, Norman Buller
‘Two Poems’, John Whitworth
‘Starling’, Robert Fraser
‘Sweets to the Sweet’, Alexis Lykiard
‘Where the Banshees Brought Me’, Alan Morrison
‘On Lake Chapala’, Robert Daseler
‘This Poem’, Andrew Elliot
‘The Ballad of the Broken-Hearted’, Naomi Foyle
‘Freefall’, Charles Graham
‘Two Poems’, Jim Greenhalf

Features

‘Seduced’, Annie Blinkhorn
‘in conversation’, Susan Sontag and Valentina Polukhina
‘David Jones & Jacques Maritain’, Kate Edwards
‘Walter Sickert’s Camden Town Nudes’, Simon Martin
‘Slavery in the USA’, Brian Burden

Reviews

Tony Roberts on Thwaite & Allnutt
Thomas Day on Hacker, Hill, Sampson, Thorpe
Rafe McGregor on Lu You
Leslie Schenk on the RSC Shakespeare
Francis King on Graham Greene’s letters
Kim Thomas on Jonathan Coe
Eric Dickens on Viivi Luik

Front Cover: Walter Sickert, La Hollandaise, c. 1906, Oil on Canvas, 51x41cm, Tate, London.

Annie Blinkhorn, former deputy editor of The Erotic Review. Contributor to Time Out, GQ, Elle, and the Independent.
Norman Buller. Travelling Light and Sleeping with Icons, both from Waterloo Press.
Brian Burden, MA (Oxen), is a retired Further Education lecturer (English and Communications). MPhil (Essex University) on H.G. Wells’ scientific romances.
Martin R.B. Cook served as a Second Lieutenant in Cyprus. Worke din marketing, advertising, and social services. Poems in Acumen, Agenda, Ambit, Chapman, Magma, Orbis, The Rialto, Staple, Tears in the Fence, & co. Chapbook Mackerel Wrappers (HappenStance).
Belinda Cooke, b Reading 1957. Doctorate on Robet Lowell 1993. Published in the literary press. Chapbook Resting Place (Flarestack 2007). Paths of the Beggarwoman: Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva (Worple 2008).
Robert Daseler lives in Sacramento, California. Levering Avenue (University of Evansville) won the 1998 Richard Wilbur Award.
Thomas Day, lecturer in English Literature at the University of Central Lancashire. Publishes on poetry in the TLS, The Times, Essays in Criticism, The Cambridge Quarterly and Paideuma. Working on a monograph on Geoffrey Hill.
Eric Dickens, b 1953, lives in the Netherlands. Literary translator from Estonian, Swedish, and Dutch. Reading knowledge of several other languages. Recent English translations of Estonian works by Jaan Kross, Mati Unt, and Friedebert Tuglas.
Kate Edwards has a doctorate on David Jones’s In Parenthesis. She teaches at the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Sussex.
Andrew Elliott, b. 1961, lives in Glasgow.
Naomi Foyle lives in Brighton. Pamphlet Red Hot & Bothered (Lansdowne Press 2003). First collection The Night Pavilian (Waterloo Press 2008). Readings and theatrical performances: www.myspace.com/naomifoyle
Robert Fraser, FRSL, is writing the lfie of the poet David Gascoyne. Fras999@yahoo.co.uk
Deborah Kaple, freelance writer and editor based in Princeton. Dream of a Red Factory (OUP). Short stories in American Writing and The MacGuffin. Her story ‘Ruthie’s Diary’ appeared in The London Magazine April/May 2003.
Francis King, 84, former President of International PEN and drama critic of The Sunday Telegraph. Short stories The Sunlight on the Garden (2006), novel With My Little Eye (2007).
Charles Graham, b 1950 in Shropshire. Editor of Tuba. Lives in Gloucestershire.
Jim Greenhalf, poet and author, publishes in the literary press. Work performed in Bradford, Manchester, London, and Prague. j.greenhals@btinternet.com
Alexis Lykiard. A memoir Jean Rhys Afterwords (Shoestring 2006). Translations of two novels from the French Heliogabalus, or The Anarchist Crowned by Antonin Artuad (Creation Press) and The Nun by Benjamin Peret. Poetry: Skeleton Keys (Redbeck 2003), Judging by Disappearances: Poems 1996-2006 (bluechrome 2007). www.alexislykiard.co.uk
Simon Martin is Assistant Curator of Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. He is the author of Poets in the Landscape: The Romantic Spirit in British Art (2007).
Rafe McGregor, b 1973, lives in York. Freelance writer specialising in history of popular fiction and military history. Published two crime fiction novellas. www.rafemcgregor.co.uk
Alan Morrison’s poetry first appeared in Don’t Think of Tigers (The Do-Not Press 2001). Picaresque, a play for voices. Edits Poetry Express. Collection of poetry the Mansion Gardens (Paula Brown 2006). www.alanmorrison.moonfruit.com
Alix Nathan writes and teaches in Shropshire.
Valentina Polukhina is Emeritus Professor at Keele University, England. Specialist in modern Russian poetry and the author of several studies of Joseph Brodsky. She edited with Daniel Weissbort an Anthology of Russian Women Poets (2005). She has also organized the visits of 40 Russian writers and poets to British universities.
Tony Roberts was educated in England and Australia. Publishes in the literary press. Two collections of poetry, Flowers of the Hudson Bay (Peterloo) and Sitters (Arc).
Leslie Schenk took early retirement from UN service around the world. 130 pieces in British and American literary magazines.
Myran Schneider, recent poetry Mulitplying the Moon (Enitharmon 2004) and Becoming (SLP 2007), a long narrative poem. Co-edited Images of Women.
Susan Sontag, b New York City 1933. Taught English and Philosophy at Harvard, City University of New York and Columbia University. Numerous awards. Her books include Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966), On Photography (1977), Illness as a Metaphor (1978) & Where the Stress Falls (2001). She died of leukaemia on 28th January 2004.
Kim Thomas, PHD, is a freelance journalist: The Financial Times, The Guardian. Specialises in education, business, and technology. www.kimthomas.co.uk
Nanos Valaoritis, b Lausanne, Switzerland, 1921. Studied at universities in Athens, London, and Paris. Edited and translated with Bernard Spencer and Lawrence Durrell The King of Asine (1948) by George Seferis. Worked with Louis MacNeice at the BBC. Active with the Surrealist movement in Paris from 1954 to 1960, when he returned to Greece. Taught at San Francisco State University for many years. Numerous publications. Divides his time between Greece, France, and California.
John Whitworth. Ninth collection of poems, Being the Bad Guy (Peterloo 2007). Writing Poetry (A&C Black). jwhitworthpoet@talktalk.net
 
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