Sharon Olds
Satin Maroon
Bruise Ghazal
Animal Dress

Eamon Grennan
Not So Still Life with Rain and Bees
In His Element
In the Kingdom of Vanishing
Hack
Getting on with It in Donegal

Robert Minhinnick
Paradise
Prayer

Tim Liardet
Boy and Bicycle
News from the North

D. Nurkse
The Civilian Causalities
The Evacuation Corridor

Ken Smith
Old Man's Advice
Everything, almost
Things
Nightbird

John Kinsella
The Shed

Karen Swenson
The Silence of the Birds

Liliana Ursu
Seeds of Sunrays
A Visit to Peles Castle (seen form Pennsylvania)

Jane Duran
The Past
Whippoorwill

Jesse Lee Kercheval
I'll Call This Death Chartreuse, Her Favorite Color
My Father Receives the First Visitation

Nadine Brummer
Black

Stephen Berg
Black and White
At the Door

Yusef Komunyakaa
Astrea's Footnotes

Sally W. Bliumis
The Return
Ice

Julia Lewis
Nasturtium Leaves

Michael Arnold Williams
The Last Cape

Poetry London Poetry Competition
Judge's Report — Moniza Alvi
Joanna Boulter
(First Prize) Still Life With Figs
Simon Rees-Roberts
(Second Prize) When I Was God
Sarah Salway
(Third Prize) Different Lives

Playful and Just Having Fun with Hats
E. A. Markham reviews books by Robert Crawford, Anne Stevenson and Ken Smith

An Anthology With A Smoke and Mirrors Rationale
D. M. Black on Neil Astley's best-seller

A Poet You May Want To Know Better: Hayden Carruth
Marilyn Hacker profiles a jazzy American nature poet, a virtuoso of English prosody

Where We See Oursleves Set Sail
Polly Clark reads Nadine Brummer, Linda France, Ruth Fainlight and Yang Lian

Virgil Rides Pillion In Dante's Inferno
Elizabeth Cook admires a new translation by Ciaran Carson

Poets React To the Attack On Iraq
Carol Rumens compares two instant anthologies

When Even Cerebral Phrases Are Sensuous
Elaine Feinstein on an early modernist, Giuseppe Ungaretti

Poetry Fluvial, Funny, Celebratory
Charles Bennett on Alice Oswald, Glyn Maxwell, Selima Hill, Antony Dunn