Acumen: Issue 59

CONTENTS

Editorial
Poems: Martyn Crucefix, Julia Deakin, Sheenagh Pugh, Sally
Douglas, Jenny Hamlett, Susan Skinner, David H.W. Grubb.

’Englishness’ and the McPoets – Ross Cogan.

Poems: Michael Croshaw, Michael Henry, Katherine Gallagher,
Barbara Cormack, June Hall, Weam Namou, Alice Kavounas.

from The Poet’s Progress – William Oxley.

Poems: Michael Newman, Tim Love, Caroline Berrier, Wendy
French, Kathryn Daszkiewicz, Derek Stanford.

English Poetry, the Celtic Viewpoint – Joy Hendry, Amy Wack

Poems: Alison Brackenbury, Gary Bills, Andrew Geary, Gill
McEvoy, Zeeba Ansari, Peter Phillips.

Interview with Mario Petrucci.

Poems: Mario Petrucci, Rosemary McLeish, Robin Brumby.

What Can Happen to your Poems – Jacqueline Saphra & W.H. Petty.

Poems: Alwyn Marriage, Maggie Butt, Ruth O’Callaghan,
Mel Pryor.

Foyle Young Poets – Emily Middleton.

Responses

Poems: Clive Eastwood, Lynne Wycherley, Danny Pyle, William
Bedford, Danielle Hope, Lance Lee, Sue Boyle, Roy Davids.

Poems Inside – Stephen Wade.

Reviews: Ailbhe Darcy, C.J.P. Smith, David Green, Edmund
Prestwich, Keith McFarlane, Phil Poole, John Horder,
Glyn Pursglove.

Poetry Comment

• Author:
• Ailbhe Darcy
• Alice Kavounas
• Alison Brackenbury
• Alwyn Marriage
• Andrew Geary
• Barbara Cormack
• Caroline Berrier
• David Green
• David Grubb
• Emily Middleton
• Gill McEvoy
• Jenny Hamlett
• John Horder
• Joy Hendry
• Julia Deakin
• June Hall
• Kathryn Daszkiewicz
• Keith McFarlane
• Maggie Butt
• Mario Petrucci
• Martyn Crucefix
• Mel Pryor
• Michael Croshaw
• Michael Henry
• Michael Newman
• Phil Poole
• Robin Brumby
• Rosemary McLeish
• Ross Cogan
• Roy Davids
• Ruth O'Callaghan
• Sally Douglas
• Tim Love
• W. H. Petty
• Weam Namou
• Wendy French
• William Bedford
• William Oxley
• Zeeba Ansari