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Autumn 08

Poems

Emma Jones

Pietà

Emma Jones

Daphne

Fabio Morabíto

In Limine to Federico Gaxiola • Hearts Are Quietly

Les Murray

Refusing Saul’s Armour • The Kiln Cavalry at Xian

Andrew Motion

The Old Head • A Garden in Japan • Coming in to Land

Judy Brown

The Blackmailer’s Wife Reads History and Considers the Nature of Guilt • The Long Game

Ruth Valentine

from Sea Fishing

Julian Turner

Fools • The Yoredale Beds

Ben Wilkinson

Sunday • Home

AF Harrold

Birder • On the Morning Sleeper • Watch • A Song to Food

Susan Burns

The Afterlife Club

Stephen Knight

Walking the Dead • New Town • Old Man up a Tree

Gillian Allnutt

Delft Lass • Sorrow • Ilse

Philip Gross

As the Man Said • Pax Pylonica • Pylon in the Mist • One Moment in the History of Pylons • Materials • Constitutional

Helen Mort

Rope

Carola Luther

Benjamin’s Pool • Crossing the Straits

Rhian Edwards

The Action

Jack Underwood

Wilderbeast • Theology

Daljit Nagra

from Cocky Sonnets

Competition 2008 Godfrey Ackers: first prize

The Canal Road

Sam Riviere: second prize

Hello, I’m visiting the area on behalf of Amnesty International

Patricia Hann: third prize

Sisters in a Wood

Kathleen Jamie:

Judge’s Report

Keith Francis: commendation

Karela

Kathy Miles: commendation

The Politics of Bees

Reviews & Features

Conversation Pieces

Philip Gross values space to think in collections by Jeffrey Wainwright, Carol Rumens and Robert Minhinnick

Rites of Passage

Kate Bingham introduces debut collections by Kathryn Simmonds, Katy Evans-Bush and Paul Batchelor

Lost on the Moon

Peter Porter brings the poetry of John Ashbery home to earth

Cheerleaders and Barometers

Sarah Crown on the art of the anthologist

The Lion for Real

George Szirtes on authority in the poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Moniza Alvi and Paul Groves

Appropriating Form

Luke Kennard on new work by John Redmond, Stephen Romer and Linda Black

Gravitas Carried Lightly

Bernard O’Donoghue celebrates the work of Mick Imlah

Worth a Returning Glance

Todd Swift on new chapbooks and pamphlets

Poetry Cape Town: Storms and Hope

Isobel Dixon revisits her homeland of South Africa for Poetry London
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