Featured in this issue:
Fiction
Two unique short stories including, ‘One Shrug in Particular’ by Ian Madden and ‘Enclosed Orders’ by Mary O’Shea, who was awarded second place in The London Magazine Short Story Competition 2012.
Poetry
From Will Eaves, Ruth Fainlight, Chrissie Gittins, Stuart Henson, Holly Howitt, Sanjeev Sethi and George Tardios.
Essays
Peter Abbs on the ‘vast and various’ Modernist movement with reference to Roland Barthes, Herbert Read, Ferdinand de Saussure, Virginia Woolf and much more.
Norman Buller, on the poetic rhythm and verse of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Anthony Head on his own reflections of Mortality, Dreams … and a love of good books.
G. Heath King on Bridging the Cultural Divide and he argues that ‘We are in need of an interfaith awakening.’
Edward Lucie-Smith on collectable objects and his own personal favourite collectable object of a Sogdian soldier or merchant from the Chinese Tang Dynasty.
Jeffrey Meyers in Part One of The Creative Moment Meyers discusses the creative processes of poets John Keats and Arthur Rimbaud.
Reviews
Lana Asfour’s write-up of the Pearls exhibition currently on at the V&A
David Cooke reviews Richard Murphy’s The Pleasure Ground: Poems 1952-2012
Simone Kotva reviews a festive choral piece: Thomas Hewitt Jones’s the Incarnation: Music for Christmas
Priscilla Martin critiques Jeffrey Meyers new book Remembering Iris Murdoch and his correspondence with the writer.
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