Issue 18 - The Sea, Summer 2005

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The Reader 18 is concerned with all things maritime, in honour of 2005 being The Year of the Sea. Join a voyage of discovery which takes in nautical novels and pelagic poetry and be tossed in waves of recommendation of fishy fiction old and new.

Gwyneth Lewis suggests books to read at sea:

It’s amazing how many lone sailors are good writers. This may be due to the fact that both activities require an unusual combination of intense curiosity about the world and the desire to be alone for long periods.

Philip Edwards on Stevenson’s south sea search for his own ultimate achievement:

Stevenson was adamant: “Unless I die, I shall find the time to make it good”

From one poet to another - Tim Keane reads Robert Creeley:

...the most courageous exploration of the complicated unity of heart and mind in recent poetry...

ALSO: Philip Errington on John Masefield; Dave McVey on packing up Punch; Dinah Birch on Victorian fictions of education; new poetry by Penelope Shuttle; reviews and recommendations of Erskine Childers, Jack Kerouac, Emile Zola, John Betjeman and Douglas Dunn.

Contents

editorial

Jane Davis, We’re All At Sea

new poetry

Mike Horwood
Isobel Lusted
Penelope Shuttle
Martyn Crucefix
Gordon Scapens
Rosemary Brough
Sean Elliott

fiction

Raymond Tallis - Glue
Jules Supervielle - The Child of the High Seas

essays and interviews

Tim Keane - The Puritan Troubador: On Reading Robert Creely
Gwyneth Lewis - Sea Books
Philip Errington - John Masefield: The Poet of the Sea
Dinah Birch - ‘No Matter of Romance’: Victorian Fictions of Education
Philip Edwards - Stevenson and the South Seas
David McVey - How I Helped to Close Down Punch Magazine

learning curve

Adam Piette’s Practice of Poetry: Ballad Scansion in Robert Graves’ ‘Counting the Beats’
Ask the Reader - Why Do Adults Read Children’s Fiction?

reviews

Chris Routledge - Jack Kerouac, Book of Haikus
Helen Constantine - Emile Zola, The Kill
Gareth Ellis - David Maine, The Flood and Geraldine McCaughrean, Not the End of the World

recommendations

Stephen Newman - John Betjeman’s Suffusion of Sense
Angela Macmillan - J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet
Katherine A. Powers - Keynote American Novels: Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, Charles Portis, Masters of Atlantis
Graham Hayes - Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands
Helen Tookey - Wide Futures: Grace Nichols, The Fat Black Woman’s Poems
Milly Wright - The Mind’s Imperfect Ore: Douglas Dunn, New Selected Poems 1964-2000

reading lives

Penelope Shuttle - Bookworm on the Beach
Sarah Maclennan - Poetry Tart

the back end

Enid Stubin - Our Spy in NY
Cassandra Crossword
Buck’s Quiz
Contributors
Quiz and Puzzle Answers
James Bainbridge - Potted Crabbe
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