Les Murray
An Australian Legend     /    The Machine-Gunning of Charm

Robert Minhinnick
The Bear     /    The Hoopoe of Punta Ala

SIX POEMS TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY MARILYN HACKER
Claire Malroux
In the Square     /    Gazebo     /    Appointment in June     /    Widower

Hedi Kaddour
Rear Window
Hail to the Artist

Sheila Hamilton
The Muse Machine     /    Bird-Maker     /    What Happened on the Beach

Ruth Padel
Scarlet Lady     /    On Tremble Island

Antony Dunn
Wrestling with Angels

Nadine Brummer
The Frog Prince

Martha Kapos
Tree-Poem for Apollo     /    The Wild Duck in the Attic

Moniza Alvi
The Other Room     /    Who Can Blame Them?     /  Great and Small     /    In Space     /    The Inspection

Vera Di Campli San Vito
La venadita o el venado herido

Ruth Fainlight
Essential Equipment

Stephen Berg
The Way     /    Hymn

Saviana Stanescu
The Infanta Isabella     /    Clara

Martyn Crucefix
The author of Kosmos

John Kinsella
Chainsaw

Ken Smith
The dansant

John Whitworth
You and the Books

D.M. Black
The Double Bass

Nicholas Johnson
Hurricane

Shifting Boundaries, Nowness, Thisness and A Retired Vampire
Ruth Sharman's reading of Jane Griffiths, Fiona Sampson and John Stammers

Writers of Comparable Gifts and Seriousness
David Constantine on collections by Marilyn Hacker and Venus Khoury-Ghata

A Playful Way With Flying Spring Onions
Kit Wright on Matthew Sweeney's two new books for children

Poets Across The Mainstream and Avant-Garde Divide
Richard Price's appraisal of a new anthology of twentieth-century poetry

Diverse Terrains, Times and Tensions
Judy Gahagan explores collections by Myra Schneider, Judith Kazantis, Katherine Gallagher and Caroline Natzler

Plums and Nuggets in The Pamphlet Orchard
Roddy Lumsden weighs the fruits of smaller presses

Like Translating A Sacred Text
D.M. Black on DAvid Constantine's translation of Holderlin's Sophocles