EDITORIAL
  Scott Verner
What are the chances for first collections?
   
  POEMS
 

Sujata Bhatt
Black Sails   /   Elsbeth   /   Runic

   
  Matthew Sweeney
Reconnaissance    /   Black Beams
   
  Blanca Varela
From The Earth Book    /   Flowers for the Ear
   
  Ruth Fainlight
La Traviata in 2001
   
  Yolanda Pantin
Glacier Perito Moreno
   
  Stephen Knight
Sardines
   
  Robert Minhinnick
The Fox in the National Museum of Wales
   
  Philip Gross
Ghost Ranch: Georgia O'Keefe    /   Written Off
   
  John Hughes
Often Enough
   
  Jo Roach
Passing the Church    /   Waking in the night     /   Arusha
Deep water
     
    Rhian Gallagher
Photographing My Father
     
    John Barnie
Salutary
     
    Eleanor Cooke
Blake and the Bag-lady
     
    Ruth Padel
Psyche Gets a Bit Lost and Meets the Buddha on the Road
She Downloads the Golden Buddha
     
    Gwyneth Lewis
Early Days in Psychiatry    /   Dr Lazarus, Naturalist
     
    Venus Khoury-Ghata
From Words
     
    Michael Arnold Williams
The Text
   
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    POETRY LONDON COMPETITION:
    Ciaran Carson
Judge's Report
     
    Alan Mumford
First Prize Fragment
     
    Matthew Barton
Second Prize Bell Ringers
     
    Leonie Rushforth
Third Prize Strobe and Mr Mila on a Trak Bop
   
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    REVIEWS & FEATURES
   

A Rich Trove Of Memorable, Funny and Alarming Poems Of Disguised Complexity
Sean O'Brien analyses the work of a poet he recommends we read afresh

It Is, As It's Always Been, A Matter Of Belief
Bernard O'Donoghue's appreciative reading of three poets of diverse genres:
Susan Mitchell, Mimi Khalvati and John Burnside

In the Translator's Workshop
Jason Wilson explores John Felstiner's book about translating Pablo Neruda

A Mysterious Business: Writing Poetry
Matthew Sweeney celebrates the letters
of one of his favourite poets, W S Graham

Poems by Brodsky's Mentor and A Pole's Witty Verse on Nazi Brutality
Elaine Feinstein appraises collections by two Eastern European poets, Evgeny Rein and Tadeusz Rosevicz

A Poet You May Want To Know Better: William Stafford
Judith Barrington on a poet who says
large things in a quiet voice

Some Poems Perplexing, Others Delightful
Julian Turner reads three contrasting collections by Medbh McGuckian, Matthew Francis and John Hartley Williams

What Is Soul, Baby?
Christina Dunhill finds kindred spirits in three new collections by Moniza Alvi, Mark Doty and Caroline Bird

   
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