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NEW AND ON VIEW: Mudlark No. 14 (2000) Sarah Law | The Baptism of the Neophytes Sarah Law lives in Norwich, England. She has been published in various magazines including Big Allis No. 8 (focussing on British writers). Her first full-length collection, Bliss Tangle, was published by Stride in 1999. Forthcoming publications include pieces in Poetry Lab and Pretext Vol. 2, both anthologies produced by the University of East Anglia, and future editions of Fire magazine. Sarah Law read English at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and has a Ph.D. from Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, on the influence of mysticism in modernist women writers. She is currently researching the medieval mystics, working in a bookshop, and teaching creative writing. Author's Note: The Baptism of the Neophytes is a collection of poems based on the Renaissance art of Venice and Florence. Since I bought a lot of postcards during my visit there, the writing is inspired by postcard-sized glimpses, and the density and uniform length of the poems reflect this. The poems are intended to stand both as individual pieces exploring the nature of spirituality, art, and love, and to form a single, slowly-spiralling contemplation of these themes. Spread the word. Far and wide, William Slaughter _________________ MUDLARK An Electronic Journal of Poetry & Poetics Never in and never out of print... E-mail: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.unf.edu/mudlark %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%