Vol. 42, No. 2
Included is new work from Eavan Boland, John Fuller, Greg Delanty, John Deane, John Kinsella, Clive Wilmer, Peter Dale, Harry Guest, Michael Hamburger, Alison Brackenbury, John Greening, Mimi Khalvati, John Haynes, Susan Wicks, Iain Britton, Mc. Donald Dixon - and fresh, lesser-known voices, such as the chosen twenty-four year old chosen young Broadsheet Poet, Simon Pomery.
Introduction: Patricia McCarthy
Poems
John Greening: Variations on a Ghazal
Mimi Khalvati: Ghazal
AlFresco
John F. Deane: Lucy in the Sky
Grandmother
John Kinsella: Solomon Icon
David Cooke: Under Cygnus
Robert Stein: We Do Not Speak of This
Winter
Moon Poem
Michael Kirkham: Night Thoughts
Michael Hamburger: Towards Equanimity
Jay Parini: Borges in Scotland
Peter Dale: Kids’ Game
Heugh
W.S. Milne: ‘Over you now the wild winds blow’
Harry Guest: Florum Imagines
Sam Gardiner: Nursery Walks
Ian Caws: Requiem for a Downland Shepherd
André Frénaud: I have never forgotten you
Translated by William Oxley
Ángelos Sikelianós: Acrocorinth
Doric
The Garden at Mistrá
Translated by Timothy Adès
Guven Turan: Poem to Snow on the Way
Translated by Ruth Christie
Essays / Reviews
W.S. Milne: The Poetry of Nessie Dunsmuir
Greg Delanty: poem: The New Voyager
Daniel Tobin: World Music: The Collected Poems of Greg Delanty
Eavan Boland: poem: Becoming the Hand of John Speed
Tony Roberts: Eavan Boland: New and Collected Poems
Two poems inspired by John Clare:
Robert Etty: I kicked it out of the clods
Robert Hamberger: Heading North (part of a sequence)
Essays
Edward Ragg: Abstraction and its Detractors
Wallace Stevens in the 21st Century
Edward Ragg: poem inspired by Wallace Stevens: Owl and Cat
Robert Stein: What should Modern Poetry do?
Sequence of Poems - John Haynes: Spirit Possession
Reviews
Duncan Sprott: Time Stopped: recent poetry of Thomas McCarthy, John Seed
and translations of C.P. Cavafy
Michael Kinsella: Nothing to communicate, thankfully:
Nick Laird: To a Fault
Poems
Alison Brackenbury: The Shell
Solo
Enclosed
Malcolm MacClancy: Réalta
Geraldine Paine: You were too Young
Linda Saunders: Dipper
Kelims in Stoke Newington
Stuart Henson: The River at Rodmell
Heather Coffey: Beating the Bounds
Tom MacIntyre: She
Scissors
Tania van Schalkwyk: My Grandmother’s Art
Viv Apple: Father Figure
Mark Leech: The Beast
Judith Kazantzis: In Rome
Mark Harris: A Century of Sounds: The Fork
Pneumoconiosis (Black Lung Disease)
Richard Marggraf Turley: Afterlives
Debouching
Matthew Geden: Ghosts
Gracious Networks
Sally Lucas: Recitation
Lisa Dart: Annunciation
Chosen young Broadsheet Poet:
Simon Pomery: Anima
Uncle Rodge
The Folk Singer
Send no Flowers
Peter Abbs: The Four Tasks of the Contemporary Poet
Poems
John Fuller: How Far?
Caroline Price: Messages
The Alde at Snape
Clive Wilmer: A Blue Tit’s Egg
Learning to Read
Translator’s Apology
Iain Britton: At the site of the future I light a fire …
Ourselves Written in Wood
Susan Wicks: Cat’s Eye, Soft Shoulder
What do we do with Spring?
French Kissing in Brittany
Stained Glass
Lynn Roberts: Adonis
Pat Earnshaw: Puppet without Strings
Myra Schneider: Strawberries
Nicholas Jagger: Das Nachtlied
Moya Cannon: Starlings
Mc. Donald Dixon: Three Palms at Commerette