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Kicking off our Art and Politics issue, Paul Nash interviews the artist Guy Denning.

As part of our Art and Politics issue, we are pleased to present Steve Ely’s poem sequence, The Visions of Vicki Weaver, which centres on the shooting in 1992 of white separatist Vicki Weaver during the so-called ‘Siege of Ruby Ridge’. A cause celebre amongst human rights activists, constitutionalists and the libertarian right, the incident has been cited as a motivation for the Oklahoma City bombing.

As part of our Art and Politics special issue, we are pleased to present poems by Patric Cunnane and Uddipana Goswami. Both poems, in different ways, address themsleves to the consequences of political upheaval and the impact on the individual.

In the latest of our poet profiles Paul Holman profiles Linda Tarczynski, whose Ecteiroglyphs of the Lorwolm, a sequence of prophetic poems, was published on the internet earlier this year.

New poems from Rupert Loydell. See also our interview with Rupert that also features this week in Geometer.

Our first editorial.

A statement of our aims and intentions. If you’re interested in contributing to Geometer please take a look.

If you’re reading this you’re probably considering writing something for us. These guidelines are mainly for essay and comment pieces – there would be no point offering guidelines for fiction or poetry.

• We’re a magazine, not a journal. This isn’t to…