CONTENTS: Staple 71

Editorial: The Art Issue

Matt Simpson: Famous Poet
Matt Simpson: And Did Those Feet
Peter Porter: Oblatones Et Holocausta
Peter Porter: Ex Abrupto
Peter Porter: The Violin’s Obstinacy
Myra Schneider: The Woodcutter
Myra Schneider: It Was
Mark Czanik: The Secret (fiction)
Barbara Cumbers: The Fairy-Feller’s Master-Stroke
Fawzia Kane: Diaspora
Fawzia Kane: The Plough and the Song
Jane McLaughlin: Portrait of a Child (Miss Crewe by Joshua Reynolds)
Kenneth Steven: Lemon Ice-Cream (fiction)
Sophie Mayer: Journées de lecture
Sophie Mayer: Trial Proof for The Blue Feet (Kiki Smith)
Sophie Mayer: Home in the Wind
Sophie Mayer: Rearranging the Stars
Ellen Bell: Hard Words (artwork)
Miriam Halahmy: Breaking The Thread
Tim Love: The Muses (fiction)
John Hartley Williams: The Pope’s Dreams
John Hartley Williams: The Homeward Hour
John Hartley Williams: Fledge
Cornelia Parker: Never Endings (interview)
Robert Vas Dias: The Meeting
Robert Vas Dias: Contemplating the development of cubism…
Robert Vas Dias: Still Life
Ben Cheetham: Only The Sea Knows (fiction)
Roger Caldwell: John Clare, Residing at High Beech
Roger Caldwell: The Japanese Wheelbarrow
Roger Caldwell: Tehran, 1979
Robert Stein: Last Things
Mik Godley: Considering Silesia (artwork and essay)
Robin Maunsell: 12 May 9:18
Martin Cook: Grocer
Martin Cook: Fear Of Transplants
Mel Fawcett: The Gift (fiction)
Lucie McKee: Summer Solstice
Lucie McKee: Looking at Turner’s Oil on Canvas of the Doge Marrying the Sea
Helen Overell: Platform 2: Southbound
Shirley Golden: Sins Across The Flesh (fiction)
Desmond Graham: A Visit to the Old and Sick
Desmond Graham: The Story of the Feast
Marion Bell: Somewhere Between Interflora and the End of Granby Street (fiction)
Cherry Smyth: Le Musée D’Art Brut, Lausanne
Cherry Smyth: Playing Guitar
Cherry Smyth: The Only Way Out
Cherry Smyth: Reading the Cup
Tess Jolly: Bangkok Tattoos
Tess Jolly: Wolf
John Saul: Linnet (fiction)
Caroline Price: Oranges
Caroline Price: The Writer’s Room
Derrick Buttress: Sarajevo
Derrick Buttress: The Natural History of Venezuela
Rory Waterman: Faroe Islands: Notes for Three Photographs
Simon Withers: from Statements of Intent (fiction)
Margaret Wilmot: Villanelle for Winslow Homer
Margaret Wilmot: Dusk on Grey Granite
Michael Law: Street-Walker (fiction)
Douglas Houston: Phidias, 2006
Douglas Houston: A Game of Cards
Errol Lloyd: No Place To Hide (artwork and fiction)
Errol Lloyd: A Note On The Origins of No Place To Hide

Reviews

C.J. Allen on Simon Turner
Alan Baker on Mark Goodwin
Roberta Dewa on Peter Day
Marcus Smith on Simon Armitage, Alistair Eliot and Chris Hardy
D.A. Prince on Templar poetry and Julia Deakin
Cheryl Madden on D.A. Prince
Caroline Cook on Robert Crawford and Meirion Jordan
Wayne Burrows on EA Markham, David Tipton and Deryn Rees Jones

Notes on Contributors