Spark

112 page paperback. An anthology of poems and art in response to the novels of Muriel Spark, including work from Sean O'Brien, Tishani Doshi, Sasha Dugdale, Paul Batchelor, James Sheard, Vahni Capildeo, and many more.

 

CONTENTS

 

The Comforters (1957)

W. N. Herbert       The Muriels

Polly Atkin       Paper Pellets on a Saucer

 

Robinson (1958)

Judy Brown       Waiting for the Pomegranate Boat

Matthew Francis       Island

 

Memento Mori (1959)

Sean O’Brien       Memento Mori

Helena Nelson       Mrs Pettigrew Replies

 

The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960)

Sasha Dugdale       A Deformed Ballad

Drew Milne       The Ballad of Peckham Rye

 

The Bachelors (1960)

Jeanette Lynes       Vocations

Paul Batchelor       Cold Reading

 

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

Tishani Doshi       Face Exercises for Marionette Lines

Vahni Capildeo       Futurist Cleopatra

 

The Girls of Slender Means (1963)

Richard Price       Girl of Slender Means

Lindsey Shields Waters       7" by 14" - a Casement Study

 

The Mandelbaum Gate (1965)

Robert Alan Jamieson       Partition

M.G. Garland       Same Hell Anyway

 

The Public Image (1968)

Andy Jackson       Lady Tiger

Rishi Dastidar       A Man of  Theory on the Via Publica

 

The Driver’s Seat (1970)

Tessa Berring       Don’t Buy Slippers Buy a Little Knife

Deborah Alma       I will not tell you anything you want to hear

 

Not to Disturb (1971)

Iain Matheson       Disturb

Larry Butler       Not to Disturb

 

 

The Hothouse by the East River (1971)

James Sheard       Tulpas

Janette Ayachi       Elisa’s Shadow Falls Towards the Sun

 

The Abbess of Crewe (1974)

Simon Barraclough       Divine Hours

Sarah Bernstein       The Hour of None

 

The Takeover (1976)

Iain Morrison       Despoiler Alert

Zoe Brigley      Letter from Nemi

 

Territorial Rights (1978)

Colin Herd       Two Sweaters for One Person or One Sweater for More than One

Eileen Pun       Studio Apartment: Eyrie

 

Loitering with Intent (1981)

Anna Selby       Sea Flower

Joanne Limburg       The Benediction of St Muriel

 

The Only Problem (1984)

Juana Adcock       Clara, Jemima and Eye-Paint

Tony Williams       The Book of Harvey

 

A Far Cry from Kensington (1988)

Lisa Kelly       Pisseur de Copie

Jane Bonnyman       The Box

 

Symposium (1990)

Frances Leviston       The Last Word

Rob A. Mackenzie       Les Autres

 

Reality and Dreams (1996)

Gerry Loose       Reality and Dreams

Louise Peterkin       Sister Agnieszka Is Carmine Revenge

 

Aiding and Abbetting (2000)

Tim Turnbull       An Evil Twin

Lily Blacksell       I want you to know I believe in myself

 

The Finishing School  (2004)

Dzifa Benson       Comme il Faut

Matthew Caley       The Fern