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I have seen your soul turn black
And then retreat
To that dark place where no one else may
                                                       follow

Emmylou Harris

Again I am constrained by shortage of space to postpone listings to a future issue and restrict Contributors’ Notes. This issue, while on one level is built around the theme of ‘place’, is more importantly concerned with how poetry can, however flawed and limited its means, attempt to transcend barriers of space, time, geography & culture. The possibilities are set by two major poems of our time which start and end the issue. The Alan Dent work is part of a much longer poem some of which was published in a recent Tears In The Fence and a further section will appear in the next issue of FIRE. Chris Ozzard’s poem-sequence works outward from the immediate details of his locality to explorations of thought, feeling, geography and the cosmos. In between these two, time, space, sea shores, sea crossings, train stations, flight, migrations of people and birds, all have their place.

Acknowledgements

K. H. DERSLEY' s Gainsborough Boy has appeared on the website Wandering Dog.

TABISH KHAIR's poems are both taken from his recent collection Where Parallel Lines Meet (Viking / Penguin Books India, 2000).

NOEL KING' s story My Favourite Teacher Died on the Titanic previously appeared in the magazine Fife Fringe.

STUART PICKFORD's poem Source is in his newest collection The Basics (Redbeck Press, 2001).