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Voices That Need to be Heard - highlights include:
- New poetry by David Constantine, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Steven, Jeffrey Wainwright, Omar Sabbagh, John Kinsella and Penny Fearn.
- The Poet on his Work: Kenneth Steven is the latest brave soul to take on the challenge of writing about the process by which a poem comes to light. His fine poem ‘That Year’ stays purposefully somewhat out of reach, as the poet believes there must be something left for the reader to do. He also writes of the poet’s vulnerable waiting for poetry to arrive.
- Fiction by Gabriel Josipovici and Raymond Tallis.
- Richard Dawkins gets a proper mauling from Howard Jacobson, who rebels against the geneticist’s evangelical atheism, and almost abandons his own doubts. For the sake of balance, our own Graham Hayes provides the counter argument.
- The Interview. The brilliant Shakespearean actor Mark Rylance talks about his work, and his belief that the writer we know as Shakespeare is not Will S. (‘Stratford man’) but rather a group of writers. It is an honest and rather unusual interview.
- Joseph Conrad is here in many guises – in a searching essay by Andrzej Gasiorek, in Raymond Tallis’s moving story, ‘Heart of Darkness’ and in Suze Clarke’s recommendation of The Shadow-Line for Readers Connect. We have been very indulgent: William Wordsworth, is also here in a round table of readings from writers such as Stephen Gill and Joanna Trollope.
- Lynne Hatwell, writer of the deservedly popular blog dovegreyreader tells us of her own reading groups.
- In her latest polemic, Jane Davis loses faith with modern journalists.
- Plus reviews, recommendations and all our regulars. Brian Nellist lets loose on the state of the modern short story and on poetry in his reviews of William Trevor and Patrick McGuinness.