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No 32 - Summer 2005


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Contents
 
Cover Page
 
  Magma
 
Jane Routh St. Etheldreda flees south, to land where there’ll be a yacht club in thirteen centuries’ time
 
  The Elizabeth Ann
i.m. John Routh
 
Jane Draycott Eldorado
 
Henry Shukman Thursday
 
  Shanty
 
Paddy Bushe Seahorses in Dingle
 
Clare Pollard Metamorphoses
 
  Mission Beach
 
  For my Fiancé
 
Vicci Bentley Birth
 
Mick Delap Presiding spirits: Theo Dorgan
 
Claire Sharpe Esprit de corps
(Megan, 2½)
 
Emma Danes Going down
 
Paschalis Nikolaou Dreams of my brother
 
Roy Woodard Advice from a Mother
 
Laura Chalar 6.15 a.m.
 
Maureen Li The only thing that’s new is the mobile
 
Clare Pollard The PBS Review
Clare Pollard reviews the PBS selections for Spring 2005
 
Matthew Sweeney The Cure
 
  Sunrise on the Black Sea
 
Caroline Natzler Marianas, Micronesia, Melanesia
 
Billy Ramsell Black Noise
 
Sally Festing Christmas in Kerala, 16–26 Dec. 2004
The Banks of the Pamba
 
Snake Boat
 
Sally Festing Celebrating
 
  Tourists
 
  Kochi
 
Robert Seatter On the Beach with Chet Baker
 
Alan Buckley Missing the point
 
Chris Beckett Victory
 
John Stammers Nelson’s
 
  Napoleon
 
Mick Delap Measuring the Sea
 
Hélène Armstrong Remember the Tulips
 
Mark McGuinness Babel
for Mami
 
Michael Foley Imminence
 
  Psalm
 
David Boll The Enemy in the Attic
 
Brian Turner The Martyrs Brigade
 
  Alhazen of Basra
 
Christopher James Reward
 
Helen Overell Beit Hanoun, Gaza, 19th April 2001
 
Mark McGuinness Net Gains?
For our Poetry in Practice feature, Mark McGuinness explores what the internet offers poets
 
Robin Knox-Johnston Guest Choice
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston chooses Sea-Fever by John Masefield
 
John Masefield Sea-Fever
 
Rachida Madani Magma showcase: Rachida Madani
 
  The first tale
Translated by Marilyn Hacker
 
Mary MacRae Desire
 
John Weston Beak of the Finch (from a Galapagos sequence)
“These birds are the most singular of any in the archipelago” Darwin, October 1835
 
Gabrielle Orcutt The Nature Poet’s Wife
 
Tony Curtis Concerning Some Pictures
 
James Sutherland-Smith The Autopsy
 
David Boll Reviews
David Boll gives another view of David Constantine’s Collected Poems
 
Kathryn Gray Reviews
 
Martyn Crucefix Reviews
 
Andrew Neilson Reviews
 
Caroline Price Mare Internum
 
Alan Ferrett Fisherman’s Friend
 
Ann Alexander Why Newlyn fishermen can’t swim
 
Arthur McHugh Whales
 
Quentin S Crisp Whaling
from the Japanese of Kaneko Misuzu
 
Robert Desnos Flint and Fire – “De Silex et de Feu”
Translated by Timothy Adès
 
Gary Allen Submerging
 
Elizabeth Burns The Return
 




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