Editorial

• The Necessity of Poetry

Covers

• Front cover image :  Listening robin perched on bike handlebars. Photo: Tom Livingstone
• Back cover image :  John Keats Listening to a Nightingale on Hampstead Heath. Painting by Joseph Severn c. 1845 Keats House, Hampstead

Articles

• Poetry and Faith by Mark Oakley
• Shining: Poetry and Theology as Sister Arts by Dinah Livingstone
• Language and Faith by Martin Spence
• Why are Mountains Still Sacred? by Adrian Cooper

Poetry

• Of Desperate Love by Federico Garcia Lorca
• Poem by John Cornford
• Jaunty by Martina Evans
• The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Reviews

• Humanism: Simon Mapp reviews Becoming Atheist: Humanism and the Secular West by Callum G Brown
• Ritual: Barbara Burfoot reviews Emerging Ritual in Secular Societies edited by Jeltje Gordon-Lennox
• Fiction: Janet Seargeant reviews Cousins by Salley Vickers
• Poetry: Kathleen McPhilemy reviews The Windows of Graceland: New and Selected Poems by Martina Evans

Regulars and Occasionals

• Letters
• SOF Sift by Martin Spence
• As I Please: In Memoriam. John Pearson says let bygones be bygones