The biggest single issue of the magazine ever, North 43 features 70 poems by 37 poets, including Roy Fisher, Mimi Khalvati and Paidraig O'Morain and articles by John McAuliiffe and Bernard O'Donoghue on Seamus Heaney, Jonathan Davidson on learning Peter Didsbury by heart and Neil Curry on Edward Thomas – as well as the ever-popular Blind Criticism and Poets I Go Back To features, together with two poems from each of the winners in the 2008/9 Book & Pamphlet Competition.