Vol. 43, Nos. 2-3
Introduction: Patricia McCarthy
Norman Buller: A sequence of poems
ESSAYS, MEMOIRS, TRIBUTES
Peter Mudford: The Memorableness of W.H. Auden – A Personal View
Nigel Thompson: Extracts from a long poem ‘To W.H. Auden in Heaven’ and Note.
Rudiger Gorner: From Iceland to Kirchstetten – On W.H. Auden’s verbal Journeys
Dylan Willoughby: Dusk at St. Marks, As Seen From Dunkin Donuts –
a poem inspired by Auden
Patricia McCarthy: The Long Hurt of it:
a poem for W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman.
John Greening: ‘Bird Lore’ – a poem for Louis MacNeice
Steven O’Brien: ‘Scrying Stone’ – a poem for Louis MacNeice on Achill
Peter McDonald: ‘This mirror of wet sand’ – Louis MacNeice’s Achill Poems
Desmond O’Grady: Memories of Louis MacNeice and poem
‘Reading the Unpublished Manuscripts of Louis MacNeice at Kinsale Harbour’
Dennis O’Driscoll: a poem ‘Michael Hamburger 1924 – 2007’
Will Stone: Unpicked Apples: Memories of Michael Hamburger
Wolfgang Gortschacher: Against Prejudice and Ignorance – Michael Hamburger’s
Celebration of German Literature in the United States
POEMS
Andrew Waterman: Happiness
Diana Brodie: Wedding Music
Glass Beads
Nigel Jarrett: Nuptials
Warrior
Dylan Willoughby: What Blossoms
Old Growth
Greg Delanty: At my Mother’s Bed
A Small Prayer
Geraldine Paine: The unmarked grave
Anne Ryland: My Mother’s Salt Coat
Wendy Robinson: Autolycus: Old Crow
Erinn Batykefer: Cicada Year
Apple Family
Alex Smith: Hortyard
In celebration of Rivers Nursery Orchard, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire
Charlie Parker in Saffron Walden
Roger Elkin: Water Barrel
Chrys Salt: Lost
John White: Tullanee
John Powell Ward: Love
Susan Minish: Voyaging
Brendan McMahon: Owls
Song
Chris Jones: Nevermas
John Gibbens: A Yellow Rose
Dwellling
Roland John: The Old Ironworks
The Collector
Sue Roe: Drawing a Peach
The Artist’s Wife as a Young Girl
Will Stone: Harrowing
Kate Scott: All the men I’ve never slept with
Linda Benninghoff: August
Daniel Tobin: The Late Show
W.S. Milne: Edward Lowbury, 19113-2007
John Kinsella: Requiem – a long poem
TWO CHOSEN BROADSHEET POETS
Caroline Clark: The Myth of the Nightingale
Tonight Moscow
Tale of Tales
Dacha
Adam Wyeth: Leland Bardwell
Carry the Torture
Chamber Music
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