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CELTIC CONNECTIONS
due out June 2008

TRISTAN AND ISEULT
the ancient romantic story

TALIESIN FOR THE 20TH CENTURY
how Ted Hughes belongs in the Bardic tradition

HERMIT ISLAND
A new Haibun by Jane Whittle

LOVE AND ZEN
Hebridean Zen poet Kevin MacNeil

JOHN MEIRION MORRIS
The distinguished sculptor

Irishness
poetry
film

CELTIC CONNECTIONS, an exploration of the myths of the celtic world, their enduring appeal and their continued relevance. This issue is for those who are trying to make connections with the pagan roots of our culture, who want to make these wonderful old stories meaningful for their lives, and who want to make links with the pre-christian ways of spirituality which existed in the British Isles before the Roman invasion.

Featured in previous issues of Urthona:

• Keith Grant, Peter Redgrove, William Blake [issue 3]
• Redon, Cecil Collins, Angels, Duende [issue 4]
  
• Sangharakshita, Shakespeare [issue 5]
  
• William Blake, Milton, Chintamani, Ananda [issue 7]
  Nietzsche, Apollo, Dionysus, Ginsberg, Shakespeare [issue 8]
• Kathleen Raine, William Stafford, Dante, Shamanism, Keith Grant,
  Karunachitta [issue 9]
  
• Robert Bly, Keats, Mary Oliver, Caspar David Friedrich [issue 11]
  Natalie Goldberg, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Sahaja, Jane Hirshfield,
  Dhammarati [issue 12]
  
• Basho, Japanese cinema, Zen landscapes, Jan Garbarek [issue 13]
  Seamus Heaney, Robert Bly, Urgyen Sangharakshita, Brancusi, Tate Modern,
  Jazz, Conceptual art, Blake & the Buddha, JS Bach [issue 14]
• Rodin, Allen Ginsberg, Emily Dickinson, Verdi, Kathleen Raine, Twenty
  Great Dramas [issue 15]
• Gary Snyder, Robert Bly, Aboriginal Architecture, The Green Man, Walt
  Whitman [issue 16]
• Camille Paglia, Piet Mondrian, Piero della Francesca,
  Sangharakshita and Kathleen Raine, Keith Grant, A new Renaissance? [issue 17]
• Rumi, Path of Love, Pablo Neruda, Handel [Issue 18]
• Anish Kapoor, Ursula Le Guin, Iris Murdoch, Jane Hirshfield, William Stafford, Kathleen Raine,
  Northern Lights trilogy, Robert Gray, Twenty great writers, Beverly Farmer [Issue 19]
• Gary Snyder on the sacred mountains of the Ear East, Aboriginal art of the Kutjungka people, Andy Goldsworthy, Resurrecting Dragons, Coleridge and the Goddess, Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring', Harold Mockford, Whenua - The Maori and the Ecology of Placental Connection, The Myth of the Light and the Bodhi Tree, Winds of Wyoming [Issue 20]
• American Dreams:- Awake: William S. Kowinski on a western U.S consortium,
  Mind Mirror: Buddhism at the Movies, We're Wise Apples: Interview with Michael McClure, Chögyam Trungpa: discovering elegance, Leslie McCormick on Dance/Movement Therapy at Boulder's Naropa University, Susan Murphy on dream and koan [Issue 21]
  
• Art, Awareness and Social Change:- Artist Aaron Matheson on Palestine - images from the wall; Gary Snyder - Danger on Peaks: Snyder's new collection - an in depth review; Schiller, Neruda, and the poetics of revolution - two very different figures who thought that art can change society profoundly; Engaged Haiku - Ken Jones on an interesting development in this ancient far Eastern form; Aquasculpture in Australia - Ephemeral sculptures in Australia .[Issue 22]
  
• Dharma of the moving image:- Ethics and Aesthetics: Documentary maker Padmadhara; Robert Bresson - visionary film maker: Ed Piercy; A view from the screen: Danavira recalls experiences in the old Picture Palaces.; A Festival of Mind: The International Buddhist Film Festival; Drunk on Mountains and Poetry: Ratnagarbha on Korean Cinema; Not giving it a name: Gary Gach reflects on just what makes a movie 'Buddhist'.[Issue 23]