This section collects together discussions of writers and writing. Where essays have been previously published, the relevant magazine is acknowledged. The section on Richard Hughes contains an Introduction and five essays.
Thomas Harris and Hannibal Lecter Richard Hughes Vladimir Nabokov's Enchanter Philip Pullman and the Republic of Heaven NEW In a Strange Land: Glyn Jones's The Island of Apples NEW Dan Brown's Symbol
NEW George Barker NEW Idris Davies: The Bitter Dreamer NEW Alun Lewis and Keith Douglas: Soldier Poets NEW Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis NEW C. H. Sisson NEW Dylan Thomas's Double Vision NEW R. S. Thomas as Religious Poet NEW The Splinter of Ice at the Heart of Things: the Poetry of John Tripp NEW The Poetry of John Davies NEW John Ormond and Wallace Stevens: Harmonious Sceptics NEW John Ormond's Voices
NEW Poetry and Death NEW C. H. Sisson's Christopher Homm Shelley as Symbolist T. S. Eliot and Tennyson
Poetry
NEW Anne Stevenson: Granny Scarecrow NEW Dannie Abse: White Coat, Purple Coat NEW Glyn Jones: Selected Poems 1946-1986 NEW Robert Minhinnick: Life Sentences; Mike Jenkins: Empire of Smoke NEW R. S. Thomas: Destinations