Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction; 'Places remember events'; What is a Still Life?; The Motions of Desire; Leaps of Faith −
of Dancing and Drawing; The Mari Lwyd; The Temptations of Solitude; Fire in the Labyrinth; The Artist's Books; Hicks-Jenkins and Contemporary Poets; Autobiographical Note; Exhibitions and Collections; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Simon Callow is an acclaimed actor, director and writer, whose books include Being an Actor, Love is Where it Falls, My Life in Pieces and highly-regarded biographies of Charles Laughton and Orson Welles. Damian Walford Davies is Reader in English at the Department of English & Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University and author of three collections of poetry. Andrew Green is Librarian of the National Library of Wales and writes and lectures widely on the transmission of culture and information. Rex Harley is a writer whose published work includes fiction, poetry and articles on the visual arts and music. Kathe Koja is a novelist based in Michigan whose published books include The Cipher, Skin and Headlong. Anita Mills was formerly Associate Professor and Chair of the Art Department at St Cloud State University, Minnesota, where she taught drawing, design and printmaking. Montserrat Prat is a television producer whose recent work has included a documentary on religious art across Europe and a music film of Haydn's Seven Last Words. Jacqueline Thalmann is Curator of the Picture Gallery at Christ Church, Oxford. Marly Youmans is a published poet, novelist and short-story writer described as 'the best-kept secret among contemporary American writers'.